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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: PBEPBE/6-31+G**

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/6-31+G**
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1531.834066
Energy at 298.15K-1531.835341
HF Energy-1531.834066
Nuclear repulsion energy427.489397
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/6-31+G**
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' 2914 2881 29.53      
2 A' 1781 1761 170.43      
3 A' 1334 1318 7.84      
4 A' 988 976 36.19      
5 A' 796 787 106.30      
6 A' 601 594 80.75      
7 A' 422 418 6.16      
8 A' 308 304 4.13      
9 A' 260 257 0.80      
10 A' 188 186 3.19      
11 A" 964 953 26.24      
12 A" 664 656 161.79      
13 A" 311 307 4.99      
14 A" 238 235 0.86      
15 A" 79 78 5.35      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5923.6 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9886) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5856.0 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/6-31+G**
ABC
0.05991 0.05370 0.04971

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

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.033 0.042 0.000
C2 0.929 -1.232 0.000
O3 0.499 -2.362 0.000
Cl4 -1.692 -0.346 0.000
Cl5 0.499 0.967 1.480
Cl6 0.499 0.967 -1.480
H7 2.014 -0.974 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.55752.44911.76811.80691.80692.2267
C21.55751.20932.76652.68542.68541.1155
O32.44911.20932.97733.64353.64352.0549
Cl41.76812.76652.97732.95282.95283.7590
Cl51.80692.68543.64352.95282.96092.8731
Cl61.80692.68543.64352.95282.96092.8731
H72.22671.11552.05493.75902.87312.8731

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 124.057 C1 C2 H7 111.760
C2 C1 Cl4 112.426 C2 C1 Cl5 105.675
C2 C1 Cl6 105.675 O3 C2 H7 124.183
Cl4 C1 Cl5 111.367 Cl4 C1 Cl6 111.367
Cl5 C1 Cl6 110.038
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at PBEPBE/6-31+G** Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.273      
2 C 0.034      
3 O -0.255      
4 Cl 0.139      
5 Cl 0.087      
6 Cl 0.087      
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
  1.052 1.055 0.000 1.490
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -51.928 -0.359 0.000
y -0.359 -60.680 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -54.057
Traceless
 xyz
x 5.441 -0.359 0.000
y -0.359 -7.688 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 2.247
Polar
3z2-r24.495
x2-y28.752
xy-0.359
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 9.894 0.798 0.000
y 0.798 10.283 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 9.754


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 266.138
(<r2>)1/2 16.314