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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: B3PW91/6-31G(2df,p)

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States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at B3PW91/6-31G(2df,p)
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1532.394315
Energy at 298.15K-1532.395765
HF Energy-1532.394315
Nuclear repulsion energy432.665625
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 B3PW91/6-31G(2df,p)
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' 2978 2863 29.38      
2 A' 1874 1802 146.35      
3 A' 1381 1328 10.54      
4 A' 1038 998 33.94      
5 A' 852 819 96.98      
6 A' 632 608 69.15      
7 A' 446 428 3.66      
8 A' 315 303 3.72      
9 A' 267 256 1.27      
10 A' 195 188 3.07      
11 A" 1012 973 23.09      
12 A" 730 702 135.94      
13 A" 321 309 3.64      
14 A" 245 236 1.32      
15 A" 85 82 4.89      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 6185.5 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9614) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5946.7 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 B3PW91/6-31G(2df,p)
ABC
0.06151 0.05487 0.05093

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B3PW91/6-31G(2df,p)

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.038 0.042 0.000
C2 0.922 -1.227 0.000
O3 0.491 -2.337 0.000
Cl4 -1.670 -0.342 0.000
Cl5 0.491 0.959 1.459
Cl6 0.491 0.959 -1.459
H7 1.999 -0.969 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.54682.42171.75081.78191.78192.2064
C21.54681.19032.73912.66292.66291.1074
O32.42171.19032.94133.60403.60402.0354
Cl41.75082.73912.94132.91482.91483.7223
Cl51.78192.66293.60402.91482.91822.8488
Cl61.78192.66293.60402.91482.91822.8488
H72.20641.10742.03543.72232.84882.8488

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 123.932 C1 C2 H7 111.387
C2 C1 Cl4 112.181 C2 C1 Cl5 106.044
C2 C1 Cl6 106.044 O3 C2 H7 124.681
Cl4 C1 Cl5 111.193 Cl4 C1 Cl6 111.193
Cl5 C1 Cl6 109.940
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3PW91/6-31G(2df,p) Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C 0.003      
2 C 0.167      
3 O -0.203      
4 Cl -0.027      
5 Cl -0.051      
6 Cl -0.051      
7 H 0.164      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.093 0.934 0.000 1.437
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -50.752 -0.389 0.000
y -0.389 -58.705 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -52.733
Traceless
 xyz
x 4.967 -0.389 0.000
y -0.389 -6.963 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.996
Polar
3z2-r23.992
x2-y27.953
xy-0.389
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 8.846 0.757 0.000
y 0.757 8.812 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 8.675


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 259.747
(<r2>)1/2 16.117