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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: CCD/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 CCD/6-31G**
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1530.452611
Energy at 298.15K-1530.454233
HF Energy-1529.581670
Nuclear repulsion energy432.613474
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 CCD/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' 3101 2907 28.55      
2 A' 1891 1773 100.53      
3 A' 1446 1356 11.24      
4 A' 1102 1033 23.64      
5 A' 917 860 82.33      
6 A' 654 613 58.29      
7 A' 464 435 1.93      
8 A' 332 311 3.74      
9 A' 285 268 1.85      
10 A' 213 200 2.98      
11 A" 1051 985 31.66      
12 A" 806 755 102.89      
13 A" 338 317 1.79      
14 A" 258 242 1.87      
15 A" 78 73 6.91      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 6467.7 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9376) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 6064.2 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 CCD/6-31G**
ABC
0.06184 0.05479 0.05077

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

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.045 0.045 0.000
C2 0.924 -1.223 0.000
O3 0.488 -2.342 0.000
Cl4 -1.664 -0.353 0.000
Cl5 0.488 0.965 1.457
Cl6 0.488 0.965 -1.457
H7 1.996 -0.985 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.54292.42831.75561.77881.77882.2062
C21.54291.20152.73082.66442.66441.0986
O32.42831.20152.93083.61383.61382.0298
Cl41.75562.73082.93082.91402.91403.7150
Cl51.77882.66443.61382.91402.91422.8633
Cl61.77882.66443.61382.91402.91422.8633
H72.20621.09862.02983.71502.86332.8633

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 123.988 C1 C2 H7 112.183
C2 C1 Cl4 111.605 C2 C1 Cl5 106.452
C2 C1 Cl6 106.452 O3 C2 H7 123.829
Cl4 C1 Cl5 111.067 Cl4 C1 Cl6 111.067
Cl5 C1 Cl6 110.001
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability