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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: B3LYP/3-21G

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at B3LYP/3-21G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1525.135272
Energy at 298.15K-1525.136545
HF Energy-1525.135272
Nuclear repulsion energy418.526463
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 B3LYP/3-21G
Mode Number Symmetry Frequency
(cm-1)
Scaled Frequency
(cm-1)
IR Intensities
(km mol-1)
Raman Act
(Å4/u)
Dep P Dep U
1 A' 3022 2916 22.99      
2 A' 1753 1692 85.43      
3 A' 1416 1366 8.87      
4 A' 992 958 29.70      
5 A' 812 783 103.56      
6 A' 597 576 87.71      
7 A' 404 390 5.73      
8 A' 294 284 4.12      
9 A' 248 239 2.64      
10 A' 195 188 2.04      
11 A" 1043 1006 32.79      
12 A" 669 646 156.10      
13 A" 320 309 3.32      
14 A" 224 216 1.11      
15 A" 88 85 6.45      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 6038.0 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9649) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5826.1 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 B3LYP/3-21G
ABC
0.05783 0.05167 0.04708

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B3LYP/3-21G

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.055 0.018 0.000
C2 0.939 -1.237 0.000
O3 0.508 -2.375 0.000
Cl4 -1.725 -0.401 0.000
Cl5 0.508 1.003 1.520
Cl6 0.508 1.003 -1.520
H7 2.003 -0.960 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.53452.43521.82891.86731.86732.1792
C21.53451.21682.79162.74092.74091.0992
O32.43521.21682.98003.70403.70402.0578
Cl41.82892.79162.98003.04473.04473.7692
Cl51.86732.74093.70403.04473.04072.8980
Cl61.86732.74093.70403.04473.04072.8980
H72.17921.09922.05783.76922.89802.8980

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 124.120 C1 C2 H7 110.581
C2 C1 Cl4 111.898 C2 C1 Cl5 106.955
C2 C1 Cl6 106.955 O3 C2 H7 125.299
Cl4 C1 Cl5 110.919 Cl4 C1 Cl6 110.919
Cl5 C1 Cl6 109.016
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3LYP/3-21G Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.712      
2 C 0.353      
3 O -0.345      
4 Cl 0.191      
5 Cl 0.140      
6 Cl 0.140      
7 H 0.233      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.412 0.347 0.000 1.454
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -52.718 -1.028 0.000
y -1.028 -60.502 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -55.396
Traceless
 xyz
x 5.231 -1.028 0.000
y -1.028 -6.445 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.214
Polar
3z2-r22.429
x2-y27.784
xy-1.028
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 7.395 1.310 0.000
y 1.310 7.134 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 7.453


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 276.590
(<r2>)1/2 16.631