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All results from a given calculation for CH3CHO (Acetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: PBEPBEultrafine/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 PBEPBEultrafine/aug-cc-pVTZ
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-153.703710
Energy at 298.15K-153.707571
HF Energy-153.703710
Nuclear repulsion energy69.398450
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 PBEPBEultrafine/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' 3079 3044 7.45 45.74 0.69 0.82
2 A' 2958 2925 1.53 207.32 0.01 0.01
3 A' 2773 2742 135.26 195.81 0.29 0.45
4 A' 1748 1729 183.41 13.56 0.53 0.70
5 A' 1404 1388 22.98 10.78 0.51 0.67
6 A' 1369 1354 8.58 2.97 0.43 0.60
7 A' 1316 1302 33.08 3.27 0.71 0.83
8 A' 1092 1080 24.63 2.82 0.21 0.34
9 A' 863 853 9.76 5.85 0.45 0.62
10 A' 492 487 11.13 1.34 0.30 0.46
11 A" 3016 2983 3.67 63.59 0.75 0.86
12 A" 1412 1396 10.89 3.99 0.75 0.86
13 A" 1086 1074 0.07 1.65 0.75 0.86
14 A" 739 730 1.72 3.86 0.75 0.86
15 A" 155 153 0.64 1.41 0.75 0.86

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 11750.3 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9888) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 11618.7 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 PBEPBEultrafine/aug-cc-pVTZ
ABC
1.89326 0.33602 0.30133

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

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.000 0.459 0.000
C2 -0.936 -0.715 0.000
O3 1.212 0.381 0.000
H4 -0.501 1.463 0.000
H5 -0.386 -1.662 0.000
H6 -1.596 -0.657 0.881
H7 -1.596 -0.657 -0.881

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 H4 H5 H6 H7
C11.50201.21461.12182.15632.13722.1372
C21.50202.41232.22121.09561.10171.1017
O31.21462.41232.02572.59443.12063.1206
H41.12182.22122.02573.12732.54332.5433
H52.15631.09562.59443.12731.80291.8029
H62.13721.10173.12062.54331.80291.7616
H72.13721.10173.12062.54331.80291.7616

picture of Acetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 H5 111.259 C1 C2 H6 109.378
C1 C2 H7 109.378 C2 C1 O3 124.908
C2 C1 H4 114.911 O3 C1 H4 120.181
H5 C2 H6 110.265 H5 C2 H7 110.265
H6 C2 H7 106.161
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at PBEPBEultrafine/aug-cc-pVTZ Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C 0.029      
2 C -0.495      
3 O -0.490      
4 H 0.322      
5 H 0.223      
6 H 0.205      
7 H 0.205      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -2.759 -0.375 0.000 2.785
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -21.299 -0.663 0.000
y -0.663 -18.209 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -18.122
Traceless
 xyz
x -3.133 -0.663 0.000
y -0.663 1.502 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.631
Polar
3z2-r23.263
x2-y2-3.090
xy-0.663
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 5.787 0.247 0.000
y 0.247 5.022 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 3.727


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 47.323
(<r2>)1/2 6.879