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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

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 CS 1A'
Energy calculated at BLYP/6-31G**
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1532.502338
Energy at 298.15K-1532.503509
HF Energy-1532.502338
Nuclear repulsion energy423.016018
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' 2898 2876 37.50      
2 A' 1773 1760 138.87      
3 A' 1351 1340 10.30      
4 A' 960 953 36.65      
5 A' 770 764 102.89      
6 A' 580 576 99.04      
7 A' 403 400 8.11      
8 A' 301 299 4.30      
9 A' 255 253 0.63      
10 A' 188 187 2.66      
11 A" 964 957 21.79      
12 A" 623 619 176.34      
13 A" 307 304 5.83      
14 A" 233 231 0.43      
15 A" 77 76 5.08      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5840.8 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9923) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5795.8 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
0.05863 0.05264 0.04858

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

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.039 0.034 0.000
C2 0.938 -1.248 0.000
O3 0.504 -2.378 0.000
Cl4 -1.709 -0.354 0.000
Cl5 0.504 0.980 1.499
Cl6 0.504 0.980 -1.499
H7 2.021 -0.988 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.56622.45671.79071.83221.83222.2298
C21.56621.21002.79382.72032.72031.1140
O32.45671.21002.99913.67723.67722.0574
Cl41.79072.79382.99912.98712.98713.7833
Cl51.83222.72033.67722.98712.99802.9017
Cl61.83222.72033.67722.98712.99802.9017
H72.22981.11402.05743.78332.90172.9017

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 123.981 C1 C2 H7 111.489
C2 C1 Cl4 112.495 C2 C1 Cl5 106.087
C2 C1 Cl6 106.087 O3 C2 H7 124.530
Cl4 C1 Cl5 111.072 Cl4 C1 Cl6 111.072
Cl5 C1 Cl6 109.793
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 -0.321      
2 C 0.331      
3 O -0.301      
4 Cl 0.084      
5 Cl 0.045      
6 Cl 0.045      
7 H 0.117      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.083 0.711 0.000 1.295
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -51.407 -0.544 0.000
y -0.544 -59.144 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -53.582
Traceless
 xyz
x 4.955 -0.544 0.000
y -0.544 -6.649 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.694
Polar
3z2-r23.388
x2-y27.736
xy-0.544
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 8.464 0.882 0.000
y 0.882 8.485 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 8.278


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 270.600
(<r2>)1/2 16.450