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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: mPW1PW91/STO-3G

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at mPW1PW91/STO-3G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1515.642470
Energy at 298.15K-1515.643452
HF Energy-1515.642470
Nuclear repulsion energy418.271740
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 mPW1PW91/STO-3G
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' 3297 2898 7.53      
2 A' 1870 1644 29.07      
3 A' 1428 1256 28.40      
4 A' 1071 942 19.97      
5 A' 946 831 101.60      
6 A' 633 557 56.07      
7 A' 454 399 2.08      
8 A' 301 265 10.60      
9 A' 251 221 2.42      
10 A' 173 152 1.03      
11 A" 990 870 88.52      
12 A" 835 734 67.07      
13 A" 291 255 0.19      
14 A" 216 190 3.41      
15 A" 65 58 3.46      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 6411.3 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.8789) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5634.9 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 mPW1PW91/STO-3G
ABC
0.05842 0.05116 0.04711

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at mPW1PW91/STO-3G

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.068 0.040 0.000
C2 0.968 -1.274 0.000
O3 0.494 -2.417 0.000
Cl4 -1.708 -0.393 0.000
Cl5 0.494 1.013 1.505
Cl6 0.494 1.013 -1.505
H7 2.056 -1.010 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.59242.49381.82741.84211.84212.2484
C21.59241.23742.81662.77792.77791.1197
O32.49381.23742.99093.74533.74532.1020
Cl41.82742.81662.99093.01493.01493.8138
Cl51.84212.77793.74533.01493.01042.9655
Cl61.84212.77793.74533.01493.01042.9655
H72.24841.11972.10203.81382.96552.9655

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 123.096 C1 C2 H7 110.785
C2 C1 Cl4 110.707 C2 C1 Cl5 107.737
C2 C1 Cl6 107.737 O3 C2 H7 126.119
Cl4 C1 Cl5 110.493 Cl4 C1 Cl6 110.493
Cl5 C1 Cl6 109.591
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at mPW1PW91/STO-3G Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C 0.086      
2 C 0.120      
3 O -0.111      
4 Cl -0.060      
5 Cl -0.073      
6 Cl -0.073      
7 H 0.111      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.584 -0.593 0.000 1.692
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -49.594 -1.749 0.000
y -1.749 -54.114 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -51.981
Traceless
 xyz
x 3.454 -1.749 0.000
y -1.749 -3.327 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -0.127
Polar
3z2-r2-0.254
x2-y24.520
xy-1.749
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.091 0.964 0.000
y 0.964 4.122 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 4.141


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 274.136
(<r2>)1/2 16.557