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All results from a given calculation for CH3CHOH (1-hydroxy-ethyl radical)

using model chemistry: BLYP/6-31G**

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes C1 2A
Energy calculated at BLYP/6-31G**
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-154.320443
Energy at 298.15K-154.325338
HF Energy-154.320443
Nuclear repulsion energy74.198182
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/6-31G**
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 3673 3644 20.14      
2 A 3045 3021 61.98      
3 A 3030 3007 13.42      
4 A 2978 2955 24.49      
5 A 2870 2848 58.37      
6 A 1468 1457 0.51      
7 A 1441 1430 7.52      
8 A 1414 1403 12.77      
9 A 1368 1358 1.79      
10 A 1245 1235 98.55      
11 A 1171 1162 46.52      
12 A 1031 1023 27.51      
13 A 1001 993 11.14      
14 A 903 896 9.55      
15 A 584 579 17.23      
16 A 399 396 13.53      
17 A 361 358 120.51      
18 A 179 177 2.65      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14079.7 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9923) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 13971.3 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/6-31G**
ABC
1.50465 0.30929 0.27127

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at BLYP/6-31G**

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 -0.090 0.512 -0.104
C2 1.236 -0.165 0.011
O3 -1.180 -0.346 0.024
H4 -0.228 1.537 0.267
H5 1.303 -1.022 -0.682
H6 2.046 0.540 -0.234
H7 1.437 -0.563 1.030
H8 -1.994 0.193 -0.015

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 H4 H5 H6 H7 H8
C11.49371.39391.09832.15112.14012.18541.9327
C21.49372.42352.25941.10391.10131.11233.2500
O31.39392.42352.12462.66843.35592.81300.9764
H41.09832.25942.12463.12872.53262.78652.2376
H52.15111.10392.66843.12871.78661.77763.5760
H62.14011.10133.35592.53261.78661.78464.0608
H72.18541.11232.81302.78651.77761.78463.6655
H81.93273.25000.97642.23763.57604.06083.6655

picture of 1-hydroxy-ethyl radical state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 H5 110.915 C1 C2 H6 110.206
C1 C2 H7 113.176 C1 O3 H8 107.953
C2 C1 O3 114.087 C2 C1 H4 120.546
O3 C1 H4 116.468 H5 C2 H6 108.224
H5 C2 H7 106.653 H6 C2 H7 107.456
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at BLYP/6-31G** Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C 0.079      
2 C -0.302      
3 O -0.445      
4 H 0.059      
5 H 0.109      
6 H 0.097      
7 H 0.097      
8 H 0.305      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -0.629 1.098 0.258 1.291
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -15.074 -1.913 -0.057
y -1.913 -19.286 0.502
z -0.057 0.502 -20.113
Traceless
 xyz
x 4.626 -1.913 -0.057
y -1.913 -1.693 0.502
z -0.057 0.502 -2.933
Polar
3z2-r2-5.866
x2-y24.212
xy-1.913
xz-0.057
yz0.502


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.976 -0.152 0.054
y -0.152 3.949 0.050
z 0.054 0.050 2.885


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 52.157
(<r2>)1/2 7.222