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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: B1B95/6-31G(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 B1B95/6-31G(2df,p)
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1532.686573
Energy at 298.15K-1532.688062
HF Energy-1532.686573
Nuclear repulsion energy434.846115
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 B1B95/6-31G(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' 3000 2873 28.39      
2 A' 1896 1816 147.24      
3 A' 1385 1326 10.90      
4 A' 1054 1009 33.17      
5 A' 869 833 96.68      
6 A' 640 613 65.61      
7 A' 454 434 3.12      
8 A' 314 301 3.70      
9 A' 268 257 1.72      
10 A' 199 191 3.14      
11 A" 1019 975 23.61      
12 A" 753 721 130.96      
13 A" 322 308 3.13      
14 A" 245 235 1.52      
15 A" 87 83 4.85      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 6251.7 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9577) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5987.3 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 B1B95/6-31G(2df,p)
ABC
0.06233 0.05540 0.05137

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B1B95/6-31G(2df,p)

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.038 0.044 0.000
C2 0.921 -1.219 0.000
O3 0.487 -2.324 0.000
Cl4 -1.659 -0.350 0.000
Cl5 0.487 0.957 1.451
Cl6 0.487 0.957 -1.451
H7 1.995 -0.963 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.54052.40991.74281.77181.77182.2007
C21.54051.18682.72222.65082.65081.1043
O32.40991.18682.91593.58723.58722.0306
Cl41.74282.72222.91592.90182.90183.7054
Cl51.77182.65083.58722.90182.90132.8401
Cl61.77182.65083.58722.90182.90132.8401
H72.20071.10432.03063.70542.84012.8401

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 123.647 C1 C2 H7 111.565
C2 C1 Cl4 111.865 C2 C1 Cl5 106.103
C2 C1 Cl6 106.103 O3 C2 H7 124.788
Cl4 C1 Cl5 111.301 Cl4 C1 Cl6 111.301
Cl5 C1 Cl6 109.916
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B1B95/6-31G(2df,p) Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C 0.010      
2 C 0.176      
3 O -0.205      
4 Cl -0.030      
5 Cl -0.052      
6 Cl -0.052      
7 H 0.154      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.099 0.948 0.000 1.451
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -50.641 -0.382 0.000
y -0.382 -58.544 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -52.583
Traceless
 xyz
x 4.923 -0.382 0.000
y -0.382 -6.932 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 2.009
Polar
3z2-r24.018
x2-y27.904
xy-0.382
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 8.736 0.762 0.000
y 0.762 8.688 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 8.552


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 257.353
(<r2>)1/2 16.042