return to home page Computational Chemistry Comparison and Benchmark DataBase Release 22 (May 2022) Standard Reference Database 101 National Institute of Standards and Technology
You are here: Calculated > Energy > Optimized > Energy

All results from a given calculation for CH3CHO (Acetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: TPSSh/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 TPSSh/6-31G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-153.787057
Energy at 298.15K-153.790971
HF Energy-153.787057
Nuclear repulsion energy68.896722
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 TPSSh/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' 3173 3052 14.25 53.33 0.71 0.83
2 A' 3040 2925 4.09 146.31 0.01 0.02
3 A' 2954 2842 129.70 137.13 0.37 0.54
4 A' 1722 1656 114.05 4.08 0.53 0.69
5 A' 1513 1456 25.25 25.71 0.69 0.82
6 A' 1445 1390 10.95 12.04 0.68 0.81
7 A' 1434 1380 25.13 8.89 0.68 0.81
8 A' 1154 1110 27.65 3.93 0.50 0.66
9 A' 915 880 8.48 6.05 0.35 0.52
10 A' 501 482 12.76 1.81 0.56 0.71
11 A" 3104 2987 11.44 78.42 0.75 0.86
12 A" 1525 1467 14.09 18.07 0.75 0.86
13 A" 1150 1107 0.54 0.42 0.75 0.86
14 A" 800 769 2.93 8.23 0.75 0.86
15 A" 150 144 0.27 1.27 0.75 0.86

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12289.5 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9621) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 11823.8 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 TPSSh/6-31G
ABC
1.87113 0.33136 0.29704

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

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.000 0.466 0.000
C2 -0.962 -0.692 0.000
O3 1.235 0.350 0.000
H4 -0.462 1.470 0.000
H5 -0.420 -1.639 0.000
H6 -1.614 -0.638 0.881
H7 -1.614 -0.638 -0.881

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 H4 H5 H6 H7
C11.50521.24071.10572.14642.14512.1451
C21.50522.43192.21891.09141.09781.0978
O31.24072.43192.03382.58803.14233.1423
H41.10572.21892.03383.10952.55912.5591
H52.14641.09142.58803.10951.79021.7902
H62.14511.09783.14232.55911.79021.7629
H72.14511.09783.14232.55911.79021.7629

picture of Acetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 H5 110.494 C1 C2 H6 110.010
C1 C2 H7 110.010 C2 C1 O3 124.385
C2 C1 H4 115.553 O3 C1 H4 120.062
H5 C2 H6 109.719 H5 C2 H7 109.719
H6 C2 H7 106.818
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at TPSSh/6-31G Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C 0.224      
2 C -0.523      
3 O -0.386      
4 H 0.130      
5 H 0.192      
6 H 0.182      
7 H 0.182      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -2.943 -0.225 0.000 2.952
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.529 0.086 0.000
y 0.086 3.482 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 2.461


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 47.515
(<r2>)1/2 6.893