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

using model chemistry: mPW1PW91/6-31G**

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes C1 2A
Energy calculated at mPW1PW91/6-31G**
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-154.347141
Energy at 298.15K-154.352101
HF Energy-154.347141
Nuclear repulsion energy75.120658
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 mPW1PW91/6-31G**
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 3908 3719 45.92      
2 A 3166 3013 51.20      
3 A 3152 2999 12.52      
4 A 3102 2952 19.99      
5 A 3007 2862 38.76      
6 A 1510 1436 3.33      
7 A 1485 1413 18.19      
8 A 1473 1402 13.14      
9 A 1405 1337 0.10      
10 A 1298 1235 157.83      
11 A 1242 1182 17.19      
12 A 1072 1020 28.00      
13 A 1031 981 6.11      
14 A 947 901 8.27      
15 A 601 572 17.39      
16 A 412 392 12.25      
17 A 360 342 139.22      
18 A 182 173 3.28      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14676.2 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9515) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 13964.4 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 mPW1PW91/6-31G**
ABC
1.54261 0.31683 0.27801

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at mPW1PW91/6-31G**

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 -0.094 0.505 -0.101
C2 1.224 -0.163 0.011
O3 -1.164 -0.340 0.025
H4 -0.228 1.524 0.260
H5 1.285 -1.011 -0.678
H6 2.027 0.536 -0.234
H7 1.417 -0.554 1.021
H8 -1.973 0.174 -0.028

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 H4 H5 H6 H7 H8
C11.48121.36931.08922.12902.12462.15951.9096
C21.48122.39402.23961.09451.09221.10103.2147
O31.36932.39402.09882.63443.31842.77420.9607
H41.08922.23962.09883.09782.51072.75802.2243
H52.12901.09452.63443.09781.77251.76473.5274
H62.12461.09223.31842.51071.77251.77124.0211
H72.15951.10102.77422.75801.76471.77123.6226
H81.90963.21470.96072.22433.52744.02113.6226

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 110.599 C1 C2 H6 110.385
C1 C2 H7 112.670 C1 O3 H8 108.810
C2 C1 O3 114.187 C2 C1 H4 120.453
O3 C1 H4 116.763 H5 C2 H6 108.310
H5 C2 H7 106.982 H6 C2 H7 107.721
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at mPW1PW91/6-31G** Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C 0.061      
2 C -0.426      
3 O -0.498      
4 H 0.103      
5 H 0.151      
6 H 0.137      
7 H 0.139      
8 H 0.333      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -0.587 1.203 0.227 1.358
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -14.828 -1.990 0.032
y -1.990 -19.047 0.513
z 0.032 0.513 -19.949
Traceless
 xyz
x 4.670 -1.990 0.032
y -1.990 -1.659 0.513
z 0.032 0.513 -3.011
Polar
3z2-r2-6.022
x2-y24.219
xy-1.990
xz0.032
yz0.513


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.586 -0.103 0.037
y -0.103 3.781 0.053
z 0.037 0.053 2.821


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 51.064
(<r2>)1/2 7.146