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All results from a given calculation for C3H3N (acrylonitrile)

using model chemistry: B3PW91/cc-pVDZ

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States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at B3PW91/cc-pVDZ
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-170.771283
Energy at 298.15K-170.773657
Nuclear repulsion energy89.814597
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 B3PW91/cc-pVDZ
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' 3278 3163 0.71      
2 A' 3193 3082 0.68      
3 A' 3171 3060 0.20      
4 A' 2351 2269 7.03      
5 A' 1692 1632 0.59      
6 A' 1420 1370 7.42      
7 A' 1300 1254 0.16      
8 A' 1099 1060 4.06      
9 A' 891 860 1.22      
10 A' 575 555 0.00      
11 A' 236 227 2.17      
12 A" 998 963 19.45      
13 A" 975 941 30.23      
14 A" 708 683 10.31      
15 A" 352 340 0.17      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 11118.4 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.965) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 10729.2 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 B3PW91/cc-pVDZ
ABC
1.68166 0.16436 0.14973

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B3PW91/cc-pVDZ

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 -0.579 -0.534 0.000
N2 -1.072 -1.588 0.000
C3 0.000 0.774 0.000
H4 -0.708 1.607 0.000
C5 1.323 0.985 0.000
H6 2.035 0.157 0.000
H7 1.721 2.002 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 N2 C3 H4 C5 H6 H7
C11.16441.43002.14482.43372.70373.4231
N21.16442.59433.21643.51543.56394.5487
C31.43002.59431.09391.33932.12612.1139
H42.14483.21641.09392.12423.10292.4611
C52.43373.51541.33932.12421.09201.0918
H62.70373.56392.12613.10291.09201.8709
H73.42314.54872.11392.46111.09181.8709

picture of acrylonitrile state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C3 H4 115.740 C1 C3 C5 122.967
N2 C1 C3 178.838 C3 C5 H6 121.637
C3 C5 H7 120.470 H4 C3 C5 121.292
H6 C5 H7 117.894
Electronic energy levels

Electronic state

Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3PW91/cc-pVDZ Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.019      
2 N -0.134      
3 C -0.080      
4 H 0.070      
5 C 0.024      
6 H 0.069      
7 H 0.070      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.910 3.262 0.000 3.779
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -22.040 -2.536 0.000
y -2.536 -25.039 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -24.382
Traceless
 xyz
x 2.671 -2.536 0.000
y -2.536 -1.828 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -0.843
Polar
3z2-r2-1.685
x2-y22.999
xy-2.536
xz0.000
yz0.000


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


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 78.438
(<r2>)1/2 8.857