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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: B3LYP/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 B3LYP/6-31G**
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1532.588095
Energy at 298.15K-1532.589494
HF Energy-1532.588095
Nuclear repulsion energy428.561343
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 B3LYP/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' 2995 2877 31.00      
2 A' 1862 1789 147.04      
3 A' 1395 1340 11.75      
4 A' 1020 980 33.91      
5 A' 832 799 104.54      
6 A' 618 593 83.10      
7 A' 434 417 5.03      
8 A' 316 304 4.48      
9 A' 269 259 1.15      
10 A' 199 191 2.93      
11 A" 1013 973 24.66      
12 A" 700 672 159.06      
13 A" 322 310 3.99      
14 A" 245 235 1.15      
15 A" 80 77 6.06      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 6149.0 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9608) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5907.9 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 B3LYP/6-31G**
ABC
0.06037 0.05393 0.04985

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B3LYP/6-31G**

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.041 0.040 0.000
C2 0.930 -1.235 0.000
O3 0.495 -2.351 0.000
Cl4 -1.685 -0.354 0.000
Cl5 0.495 0.970 1.476
Cl6 0.495 0.970 -1.476
H7 2.006 -0.983 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.55362.43341.77061.80291.80292.2151
C21.55361.19752.75912.68862.68861.1060
O32.43341.19752.95703.63413.63412.0383
Cl41.77062.75912.95702.94692.94693.7446
Cl51.80292.68863.63412.94692.95252.8766
Cl61.80292.68863.63412.94692.95252.8766
H72.21511.10602.03833.74462.87662.8766

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 123.877 C1 C2 H7 111.689
C2 C1 Cl4 112.035 C2 C1 Cl5 106.218
C2 C1 Cl6 106.218 O3 C2 H7 124.434
Cl4 C1 Cl5 111.106 Cl4 C1 Cl6 111.106
Cl5 C1 Cl6 109.934
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3LYP/6-31G** Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.355      
2 C 0.346      
3 O -0.326      
4 Cl 0.091      
5 Cl 0.055      
6 Cl 0.055      
7 H 0.133      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.176 0.842 0.000 1.446
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -51.306 -0.539 0.000
y -0.539 -59.486 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -53.489
Traceless
 xyz
x 5.181 -0.539 0.000
y -0.539 -7.088 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.907
Polar
3z2-r23.814
x2-y28.180
xy-0.539
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 8.009 0.898 0.000
y 0.898 7.944 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 7.808


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 264.534
(<r2>)1/2 16.264