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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: mPW1PW91/3-21G*

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at mPW1PW91/3-21G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1525.460259
Energy at 298.15K-1525.461744
HF Energy-1525.460259
Nuclear repulsion energy430.137298
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 mPW1PW91/3-21G*
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' 3046 2892 23.84      
2 A' 1788 1698 93.82      
3 A' 1416 1345 7.31      
4 A' 997 947 35.58      
5 A' 840 798 88.37      
6 A' 634 602 76.61      
7 A' 441 419 4.15      
8 A' 322 306 3.66      
9 A' 269 256 2.01      
10 A' 206 196 3.26      
11 A" 1049 996 30.19      
12 A" 706 670 137.66      
13 A" 336 319 3.89      
14 A" 248 236 1.25      
15 A" 95 90 6.41      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 6196.5 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9496) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5884.2 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 mPW1PW91/3-21G*
ABC
0.06143 0.05421 0.04992

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at mPW1PW91/3-21G*

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.041 0.046 0.000
C2 0.926 -1.221 0.000
O3 0.490 -2.354 0.000
Cl4 -1.668 -0.373 0.000
Cl5 0.490 0.976 1.467
Cl6 0.490 0.976 -1.467
H7 1.991 -0.950 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.54592.44151.75971.79381.79382.1891
C21.54591.21352.72912.67772.67771.0987
O32.44151.21352.92893.63843.63842.0553
Cl41.75972.72912.92892.93722.93723.7036
Cl51.79382.67773.63842.93722.93442.8482
Cl61.79382.67773.63842.93722.93442.8482
H72.18911.09872.05533.70362.84822.8482

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 124.008 C1 C2 H7 110.599
C2 C1 Cl4 111.134 C2 C1 Cl5 106.363
C2 C1 Cl6 106.363 O3 C2 H7 125.393
Cl4 C1 Cl5 111.490 Cl4 C1 Cl6 111.490
Cl5 C1 Cl6 109.752
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at mPW1PW91/3-21G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.551      
2 C 0.313      
3 O -0.366      
4 Cl 0.140      
5 Cl 0.106      
6 Cl 0.106      
7 H 0.252      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.278 0.751 0.000 1.482
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -51.701 -0.600 0.000
y -0.600 -60.046 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -54.052
Traceless
 xyz
x 5.348 -0.600 0.000
y -0.600 -7.169 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.821
Polar
3z2-r23.642
x2-y28.345
xy-0.600
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 7.454 1.022 0.000
y 1.022 7.370 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 7.312


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 263.108
(<r2>)1/2 16.221