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All results from a given calculation for CH3CH2Cl (Ethyl chloride)

using model chemistry: wB97X-D/cc-pVDZ

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at wB97X-D/cc-pVDZ
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-539.391801
Energy at 298.15K-539.397250
HF Energy-539.391801
Nuclear repulsion energy102.447999
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 wB97X-D/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' 3153 3004 23.54      
2 A' 3123 2975 14.26      
3 A' 3071 2925 17.79      
4 A' 1513 1441 4.14      
5 A' 1507 1435 2.01      
6 A' 1431 1363 9.84      
7 A' 1335 1272 42.04      
8 A' 1102 1049 0.93      
9 A' 1000 953 21.37      
10 A' 691 658 29.43      
11 A' 340 324 2.94      
12 A" 3193 3041 15.93      
13 A" 3163 3013 6.10      
14 A" 1492 1421 10.22      
15 A" 1281 1221 0.83      
16 A" 1092 1041 0.00      
17 A" 800 762 3.16      
18 A" 243 232 0.05      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14763.9 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9526) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14064.1 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 wB97X-D/cc-pVDZ
ABC
1.05455 0.18082 0.16388

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at wB97X-D/cc-pVDZ

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 1.510 0.666 0.000
C2 0.000 0.813 0.000
H3 1.970 1.659 0.000
H4 1.851 0.127 0.887
H5 1.851 0.127 -0.887
Cl6 -0.825 -0.792 0.000
H7 -0.353 1.339 0.888
H8 -0.353 1.339 -0.888

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 H3 H4 H5 Cl6 H7 H8
C11.51731.09521.09281.09282.75282.17122.1712
C21.51732.14412.16482.16481.80501.09081.0908
H31.09522.14411.77511.77513.71792.50782.5078
H41.09282.16481.77511.77482.96572.51593.0793
H51.09282.16481.77511.77482.96573.07932.5159
Cl62.75281.80503.71792.96572.96572.35642.3564
H72.17121.09082.50782.51593.07932.35641.7762
H82.17121.09082.50783.07932.51592.35641.7762

picture of Ethyl chloride state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 Cl6 111.612 C1 C2 H7 111.664
C1 C2 H8 111.664 C2 C1 H3 109.244
C2 C1 H4 111.027 C2 C1 H5 111.027
H3 C1 H4 108.441 H3 C1 H5 108.441
H4 C1 H5 108.587 Cl6 C2 H7 106.297
Cl6 C2 H8 106.297 H7 C2 H8 109.018
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at wB97X-D/cc-pVDZ Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.495      
2 C -0.367      
3 H 0.166      
4 H 0.180      
5 H 0.180      
6 Cl -0.067      
7 H 0.202      
8 H 0.202      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.239 1.988 0.000 2.342
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -27.035 -0.377 0.000
y -0.377 -25.826 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -26.303
Traceless
 xyz
x -0.971 -0.377 0.000
y -0.377 0.844 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 0.127
Polar
3z2-r20.255
x2-y2-1.210
xy-0.377
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 5.513 0.877 0.000
y 0.877 5.808 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 4.497


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 79.518
(<r2>)1/2 8.917