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

using model chemistry: BLYP/3-21G

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States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at BLYP/3-21G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-536.715786
Energy at 298.15K-536.721102
Nuclear repulsion energy98.893865
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 BLYP/3-21G
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' 3058 3041 20.43      
2 A' 3038 3021 3.14      
3 A' 2969 2953 11.11      
4 A' 1531 1522 4.70      
5 A' 1502 1494 2.16      
6 A' 1429 1421 7.33      
7 A' 1274 1267 43.19      
8 A' 1064 1059 3.35      
9 A' 947 942 24.05      
10 A' 566 563 32.92      
11 A' 309 307 5.02      
12 A" 3125 3107 11.92      
13 A" 3067 3050 7.31      
14 A" 1513 1504 8.28      
15 A" 1266 1259 1.19      
16 A" 1033 1027 0.40      
17 A" 791 786 5.72      
18 A" 250 248 0.03      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14364.3 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9945) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14285.3 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 BLYP/3-21G
ABC
0.98261 0.16774 0.15170

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at BLYP/3-21G

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 1.522 0.739 0.000
C2 0.000 0.895 0.000
H3 1.986 1.743 0.000
H4 1.859 0.197 0.896
H5 1.859 0.197 -0.896
Cl6 -0.826 -0.864 0.000
H7 -0.393 1.372 0.905
H8 -0.393 1.372 -0.905

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 H3 H4 H5 Cl6 H7 H8
C11.52971.10621.10011.10012.84332.20992.2099
C21.52972.15962.17812.17811.94351.09551.0955
H31.10622.15961.79201.79203.83512.57182.5718
H41.10012.17811.79201.79123.02252.53973.1130
H51.10012.17811.79201.79123.02253.11302.5397
Cl62.84331.94353.83513.02253.02252.45092.4509
H72.20991.09552.57182.53973.11302.45091.8093
H82.20991.09552.57183.11302.53972.45091.8093

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 109.321 C1 C2 H7 113.632
C1 C2 H8 113.632 C2 C1 H3 108.975
C2 C1 H4 110.781 C2 C1 H5 110.781
H3 C1 H4 108.626 H3 C1 H5 108.626
H4 C1 H5 108.999 Cl6 C2 H7 103.993
Cl6 C2 H8 103.993 H7 C2 H8 111.331
Electronic energy levels

Electronic state

Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at BLYP/3-21G Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.522      
2 C -0.475      
3 H 0.195      
4 H 0.209      
5 H 0.209      
6 Cl -0.091      
7 H 0.238      
8 H 0.238      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.434 2.351 0.000 2.754
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -26.813 -0.583 0.000
y -0.583 -25.977 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -26.285
Traceless
 xyz
x -0.682 -0.583 0.000
y -0.583 0.572 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 0.110
Polar
3z2-r20.219
x2-y2-0.836
xy-0.583
xz0.000
yz0.000


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


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 84.028
(<r2>)1/2 9.167