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All results from a given calculation for CH3CH2Cl (Ethyl chloride)

using model chemistry: HF/LANL2DZ

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States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at HF/LANL2DZ
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-93.326798
Energy at 298.15K-93.332326
Nuclear repulsion energy63.275308
The energy at 298.15K was derived from the energy at 0K and an integrated heat capacity that used the calculated vibrational frequencies.
Vibrational Frequencies calculated at HF/LANL2DZ
Mode Number Symmetry Frequency
(cm-1)
Scaled Frequency
(cm-1)
IR Intensities
(km mol-1)
Raman Act
4/u)
Dep P Dep U
1 A' 3324 2992 49.92      
2 A' 3294 2964 20.00      
3 A' 3210 2888 33.68      
4 A' 1649 1484 6.57      
5 A' 1641 1477 2.96      
6 A' 1578 1420 8.06      
7 A' 1451 1306 56.15      
8 A' 1193 1073 3.12      
9 A' 1070 963 22.08      
10 A' 632 569 57.46      
11 A' 346 312 5.79      
12 A" 3405 3064 27.95      
13 A" 3322 2989 26.94      
14 A" 1633 1469 10.14      
15 A" 1389 1250 1.39      
16 A" 1177 1059 0.39      
17 A" 872 785 4.42      
18 A" 273 246 0.15      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 15728.8 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.8999) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14154.3 cm-1
See section III.C.1 List or set vibrational scaling factors to change the scale factors used here.
See section III.C.2 Calculate a vibrational scaling factor for a given set of molecules to determine the least squares best scaling factor.
Rotational Constants (cm-1) from geometry optimized at HF/LANL2DZ
ABC
1.02607 0.17419 0.15761

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at HF/LANL2DZ

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 1.173 -0.350 0.000
C2 0.000 0.617 0.000
H3 2.102 0.213 0.000
H4 1.157 -0.982 0.878
H5 1.157 -0.982 -0.878
Cl6 -1.625 -0.329 0.000
H7 -0.040 1.229 0.883
H8 -0.040 1.229 -0.883

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 H3 H4 H5 Cl6 H7 H8
C11.52071.08581.08161.08162.79802.17852.1785
C21.52072.14012.16042.16041.88051.07521.0752
H31.08582.14011.75791.75793.76562.52972.5297
H41.08162.16041.75791.75542.98922.51433.0697
H51.08162.16041.75791.75542.98923.06972.5143
Cl62.79801.88053.76562.98922.98922.39182.3918
H72.17851.07522.52972.51433.06972.39181.7669
H82.17851.07522.52973.06972.51432.39181.7669

picture of Ethyl chloride state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 Cl6 110.258 C1 C2 H7 112.993
C1 C2 H8 112.993 C2 C1 H3 109.252
C2 C1 H4 111.115 C2 C1 H5 111.115
H3 C1 H4 108.401 H3 C1 H5 108.401
H4 C1 H5 108.477 Cl6 C2 H7 104.727
Cl6 C2 H8 104.727 H7 C2 H8 110.495
Electronic energy levels

Electronic state

Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at HF/LANL2DZ Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.487      
2 C -0.365      
3 H 0.176      
4 H 0.199      
5 H 0.199      
6 Cl -0.173      
7 H 0.225      
8 H 0.225      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  2.861 1.359 0.000 3.167
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -29.895 -0.811 0.000
y -0.811 -25.176 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -25.463
Traceless
 xyz
x -4.575 -0.811 0.000
y -0.811 2.503 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 2.072
Polar
3z2-r24.145
x2-y2-4.719
xy-0.811
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 5.488 0.997 0.000
y 0.997 3.665 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 3.038


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 62.480
(<r2>)1/2 7.904