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All results from a given calculation for CH3OCl (methyl hypochlorite)

using model chemistry: mPW1PW91/cc-pVTZ

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at mPW1PW91/cc-pVTZ
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-575.315299
Energy at 298.15K-575.319004
HF Energy-575.315299
Nuclear repulsion energy106.554672
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 mPW1PW91/cc-pVTZ
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' 3139 3011 8.85      
2 A' 3037 2913 33.77      
3 A' 1510 1449 10.72      
4 A' 1457 1398 2.28      
5 A' 1205 1156 14.37      
6 A' 1050 1007 42.14      
7 A' 720 690 4.45      
8 A' 372 357 2.99      
9 A" 3113 2986 30.07      
10 A" 1465 1405 8.91      
11 A" 1177 1129 1.05      
12 A" 245 235 2.51      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 9244.4 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9592) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 8867.2 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 mPW1PW91/cc-pVTZ
ABC
1.43594 0.21057 0.19031

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at mPW1PW91/cc-pVTZ

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
O1 0.000 0.795 0.000
Cl2 -0.805 -0.688 0.000
C3 1.401 0.600 0.000
H4 1.813 1.609 0.000
H5 1.732 0.067 0.894
H6 1.732 0.067 -0.894

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  O1 Cl2 C3 H4 H5 H6
O11.68801.41501.98732.08062.0806
Cl21.68802.55503.48312.79422.7942
C31.41502.55501.08981.09141.0914
H41.98733.48311.08981.78341.7834
H52.08062.79421.09141.78341.7871
H62.08062.79421.09141.78341.7871

picture of methyl hypochlorite state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
O1 C3 H4 104.250 O1 C3 H5 111.565
O1 C3 H6 111.565 Cl2 O1 C3 110.540
H4 C3 H5 109.696 H4 C3 H6 109.696
H5 C3 H6 109.919
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at mPW1PW91/cc-pVTZ Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 O -0.245      
2 Cl 0.035      
3 C -0.034      
4 H 0.096      
5 H 0.074      
6 H 0.074      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.779 -0.093 0.000 1.781
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -22.355 2.006 0.000
y 2.006 -24.214 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -25.160
Traceless
 xyz
x 2.332 2.006 0.000
y 2.006 -0.457 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -1.875
Polar
3z2-r2-3.751
x2-y21.859
xy2.006
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 5.100 1.201 0.000
y 1.201 4.655 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 3.425


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 66.492
(<r2>)1/2 8.154