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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: PBEPBE/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 PBEPBE/6-31G**
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1531.823230
Energy at 298.15K-1531.824515
HF Energy-1531.823230
Nuclear repulsion energy427.536250
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 PBEPBE/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' 2904 2864 35.67      
2 A' 1802 1777 140.09      
3 A' 1341 1323 9.06      
4 A' 988 974 36.43      
5 A' 800 789 112.43      
6 A' 604 596 85.87      
7 A' 423 417 6.47      
8 A' 308 304 4.61      
9 A' 261 257 0.83      
10 A' 191 188 2.93      
11 A" 966 953 24.92      
12 A" 668 659 171.72      
13 A" 312 308 4.40      
14 A" 239 236 0.76      
15 A" 79 78 4.63      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5942.9 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9863) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5861.5 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 PBEPBE/6-31G**
ABC
0.06004 0.05371 0.04964

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

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.036 0.043 0.000
C2 0.931 -1.233 0.000
O3 0.498 -2.360 0.000
Cl4 -1.689 -0.352 0.000
Cl5 0.498 0.970 1.480
Cl6 0.498 0.970 -1.480
H7 2.016 -0.969 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.55852.44681.76931.80671.80672.2234
C21.55851.20732.76372.68932.68931.1164
O32.44681.20732.96833.64423.64422.0589
Cl41.76932.76372.96832.95302.95303.7554
Cl51.80672.68933.64422.95302.96052.8732
Cl61.80672.68933.64422.95302.96052.8732
H72.22341.11642.05893.75542.87322.8732

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 123.922 C1 C2 H7 111.371
C2 C1 Cl4 112.145 C2 C1 Cl5 105.864
C2 C1 Cl6 105.864 O3 C2 H7 124.708
Cl4 C1 Cl5 111.332 Cl4 C1 Cl6 111.332
Cl5 C1 Cl6 110.032
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at PBEPBE/6-31G** Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.417      
2 C 0.311      
3 O -0.295      
4 Cl 0.111      
5 Cl 0.074      
6 Cl 0.074      
7 H 0.142      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.073 0.771 0.000 1.321
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -51.268 -0.456 0.000
y -0.456 -58.922 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -53.382
Traceless
 xyz
x 4.884 -0.456 0.000
y -0.456 -6.597 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.712
Polar
3z2-r23.425
x2-y27.654
xy-0.456
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 8.350 0.856 0.000
y 0.856 8.375 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 8.120


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 265.439
(<r2>)1/2 16.292