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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

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

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States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at HF/6-31G**
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1529.583219
Energy at 298.15K-1529.585028
HF Energy-1529.583219
Nuclear repulsion energy434.544275
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 HF/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' 3215 2902 24.53      
2 A' 2060 1860 198.53      
3 A' 1521 1373 19.41      
4 A' 1160 1047 27.63      
5 A' 965 871 103.93      
6 A' 690 622 76.67      
7 A' 485 438 2.26      
8 A' 349 315 4.51      
9 A' 299 270 2.27      
10 A' 224 202 3.49      
11 A" 1145 1034 29.64      
12 A" 843 761 138.18      
13 A" 357 322 2.59      
14 A" 272 245 2.49      
15 A" 88 80 10.01      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 6836.0 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9026) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 6170.2 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 HF/6-31G**
ABC
0.06217 0.05525 0.05133

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

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.048 0.037 0.000
C2 0.921 -1.232 0.000
O3 0.487 -2.324 0.000
Cl4 -1.662 -0.344 0.000
Cl5 0.487 0.959 1.451
Cl6 0.487 0.959 -1.451
H7 1.987 -1.001 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.54132.40131.75141.77421.77422.1997
C21.54131.17452.73192.66392.66391.0904
O32.40131.17452.92173.58893.58892.0000
Cl41.75142.73192.92172.90172.90173.7075
Cl51.77422.66393.58892.90172.90192.8628
Cl61.77422.66393.58892.90172.90192.8628
H72.19971.09042.00003.70752.86282.8628

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 123.743 C1 C2 H7 112.271
C2 C1 Cl4 111.974 C2 C1 Cl5 106.712
C2 C1 Cl6 106.712 O3 C2 H7 123.985
Cl4 C1 Cl5 110.776 Cl4 C1 Cl6 110.776
Cl5 C1 Cl6 109.726
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at HF/6-31G** Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.395      
2 C 0.428      
3 O -0.410      
4 Cl 0.099      
5 Cl 0.058      
6 Cl 0.058      
7 H 0.163      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.452 1.051 0.000 1.792
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -51.715 -0.710 0.000
y -0.710 -61.389 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -54.298
Traceless
 xyz
x 6.128 -0.710 0.000
y -0.710 -8.382 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 2.254
Polar
3z2-r24.509
x2-y29.674
xy-0.710
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 7.344 0.925 0.000
y 0.925 7.230 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 7.182


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 258.983
(<r2>)1/2 16.093