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All results from a given calculation for CH3N3 (methyl azide)

using model chemistry: LSDA/aug-cc-pVTZ

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States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at LSDA/aug-cc-pVTZ
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-203.089401
Energy at 298.15K-203.093995
HF Energy-203.089401
Nuclear repulsion energy108.801296
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 LSDA/aug-cc-pVTZ
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' 3084 3055 2.39      
2 A' 2943 2916 39.21      
3 A' 2268 2247 496.23      
4 A' 1430 1416 51.63      
5 A' 1397 1384 7.46      
6 A' 1366 1353 42.16      
7 A' 1101 1090 12.70      
8 A' 955 946 18.52      
9 A' 668 661 9.79      
10 A' 239 237 7.54      
11 A" 3007 2979 14.78      
12 A" 1420 1407 11.00      
13 A" 1062 1052 0.01      
14 A" 583 578 5.67      
15 A" 107 106 0.43      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 10815.5 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9906) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 10713.8 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 LSDA/aug-cc-pVTZ
ABC
1.63591 0.17763 0.16532

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at LSDA/aug-cc-pVTZ

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 -1.438 -0.616 0.000
N2 0.000 -0.716 0.000
N3 0.650 0.309 0.000
N4 1.363 1.196 0.000
H5 -1.839 -1.635 0.000
H6 -1.810 -0.094 0.897
H7 -1.810 -0.094 -0.897

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 N2 N3 N4 H5 H6 H7
C11.44122.28323.33551.09481.10231.1023
N21.44121.21362.34782.05582.11382.1138
N32.28321.21361.13793.15782.64922.6492
N43.33552.34781.13794.27363.54083.5408
H51.09482.05583.15784.27361.78251.7825
H61.10232.11382.64923.54081.78251.7931
H71.10232.11382.64923.54081.78251.7931

picture of methyl azide state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 N2 N3 118.387 N2 C1 H5 107.533
N2 C1 H6 111.725 N2 C1 H7 111.725
N2 N3 N4 173.563 H5 C1 H6 108.447
H5 C1 H7 108.447 H6 C1 H7 108.854
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at LSDA/aug-cc-pVTZ Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.471      
2 N -0.701      
3 N 1.329      
4 N -0.901      
5 H 0.279      
6 H 0.232      
7 H 0.232      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -2.442 -0.652 0.000 2.528
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -23.109 -0.897 0.000
y -0.897 -26.263 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -23.376
Traceless
 xyz
x 1.710 -0.897 0.000
y -0.897 -3.020 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.310
Polar
3z2-r22.620
x2-y23.154
xy-0.897
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 6.990 2.193 0.000
y 2.193 6.529 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 4.208


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 74.281
(<r2>)1/2 8.619