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All results from a given calculation for ClONO2 (Chlorine nitrate)

using model chemistry: BLYP/3-21G*

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States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at BLYP/3-21G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-736.741055
Energy at 298.15K-736.743145
HF Energy-736.741055
Nuclear repulsion energy214.395115
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 BLYP/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' 1406 1397 93.09      
2 A' 1066 1059 211.14      
3 A' 730 726 85.65      
4 A' 687 682 3.67      
5 A' 523 519 1.32      
6 A' 367 364 1.02      
7 A' 197 196 0.08      
8 A" 565 561 6.26      
9 A" 122 121 0.27      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 2831.1 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9935) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 2812.7 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 BLYP/3-21G*
ABC
0.35212 0.08282 0.06705

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

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
Cl1 -1.680 0.389 0.000
O2 0.000 0.926 0.000
N3 1.016 -0.367 0.000
O4 0.481 -1.506 0.000
O5 2.200 0.074 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  Cl1 O2 N3 O4 O5
Cl11.76382.79922.87373.8920
O21.76381.64432.47932.3589
N32.79921.64431.25811.2633
O42.87372.47931.25812.3342
O53.89202.35891.26332.3342

picture of Chlorine nitrate state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
Cl1 O2 N3 110.390 O2 N3 O4 116.720
O2 N3 O5 107.721 O4 N3 O5 135.559
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at BLYP/3-21G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 Cl 0.139      
2 O -0.218      
3 N 0.475      
4 O -0.202      
5 O -0.194      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -0.396 -0.343 0.000 0.524
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -32.308 -0.557 0.000
y -0.557 -34.836 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -32.368
Traceless
 xyz
x 1.294 -0.557 0.000
y -0.557 -2.498 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.204
Polar
3z2-r22.408
x2-y22.528
xy-0.557
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 8.147 -0.468 0.000
y -0.468 4.093 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.434


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 145.017
(<r2>)1/2 12.042