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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: PBEPBE/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 PBEPBE/6-31G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1531.717729
Energy at 298.15K-1531.718888
HF Energy-1531.717729
Nuclear repulsion energy417.010582
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 PBEPBE/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' 2972 2931 25.09      
2 A' 1686 1663 108.60      
3 A' 1363 1344 8.64      
4 A' 1002 989 22.20      
5 A' 778 767 115.29      
6 A' 579 571 102.86      
7 A' 400 395 8.45      
8 A' 296 292 4.71      
9 A' 250 247 1.70      
10 A' 187 184 2.64      
11 A" 977 964 30.88      
12 A" 620 612 179.36      
13 A" 308 304 3.91      
14 A" 225 222 0.86      
15 A" 78 77 6.86      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5860.9 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9862) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5780.0 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 PBEPBE/6-31G
ABC
0.05707 0.05139 0.04698

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

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.051 0.015 0.000
C2 0.944 -1.238 0.000
O3 0.512 -2.392 0.000
Cl4 -1.734 -0.381 0.000
Cl5 0.512 0.998 1.527
Cl6 0.512 0.998 -1.527
H7 2.023 -0.981 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.53872.45111.82841.87351.87352.2094
C21.53871.23252.81182.74162.74161.1092
O32.45111.23253.01503.71803.71802.0675
Cl41.82842.81183.01503.04603.04603.8047
Cl51.87352.74163.71803.04603.05402.9206
Cl61.87352.74163.71803.04603.05402.9206
H72.20941.10922.06753.80472.92062.9206

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 124.007 C1 C2 H7 112.086
C2 C1 Cl4 112.967 C2 C1 Cl5 106.509
C2 C1 Cl6 106.509 O3 C2 H7 123.907
Cl4 C1 Cl5 110.733 Cl4 C1 Cl6 110.733
Cl5 C1 Cl6 109.183
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at PBEPBE/6-31G Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.667      
2 C 0.286      
3 O -0.277      
4 Cl 0.192      
5 Cl 0.135      
6 Cl 0.135      
7 H 0.196      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.285 0.669 0.000 1.449
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -52.050 -0.886 0.000
y -0.886 -60.722 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -54.778
Traceless
 xyz
x 5.700 -0.886 0.000
y -0.886 -7.308 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.608
Polar
3z2-r23.217
x2-y28.672
xy-0.886
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 8.094 1.181 0.000
y 1.181 8.227 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 8.117


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 278.008
(<r2>)1/2 16.674