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All results from a given calculation for CH3CH2Cl (Ethyl chloride)

using model chemistry: B3LYPultrafine/6-31G*

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States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at B3LYPultrafine/6-31G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-539.426259
Energy at 298.15K-539.431693
Nuclear repulsion energy101.937815
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 B3LYPultrafine/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' 3124 2993 28.70      
2 A' 3103 2972 10.25      
3 A' 3053 2924 16.93      
4 A' 1532 1467 2.50      
5 A' 1520 1456 1.18      
6 A' 1441 1381 4.55      
7 A' 1341 1285 46.40      
8 A' 1099 1053 1.30      
9 A' 990 949 19.84      
10 A' 658 631 32.31      
11 A' 331 317 3.34      
12 A" 3166 3033 23.40      
13 A" 3138 3007 3.73      
14 A" 1515 1451 6.83      
15 A" 1291 1237 0.54      
16 A" 1093 1047 0.00      
17 A" 798 765 3.61      
18 A" 268 257 0.10      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14730.8 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.958) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14112.1 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 B3LYPultrafine/6-31G*
ABC
1.04874 0.17864 0.16196

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B3LYPultrafine/6-31G*

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 1.512 0.679 0.000
C2 0.000 0.821 0.000
H3 1.969 1.677 0.000
H4 1.859 0.142 0.888
H5 1.859 0.142 -0.888
Cl6 -0.826 -0.803 0.000
H7 -0.361 1.343 0.888
H8 -0.361 1.343 -0.888

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 H3 H4 H5 Cl6 H7 H8
C11.51851.09771.09411.09412.76752.17692.1769
C21.51852.14732.16882.16881.82121.09191.0919
H31.09772.14731.77701.77703.73622.51622.5162
H41.09412.16881.77701.77532.98072.52433.0863
H51.09412.16881.77701.77532.98073.08632.5243
Cl62.76751.82123.73622.98072.98072.36832.3683
H72.17691.09192.51622.52433.08632.36831.7760
H82.17691.09192.51623.08632.52432.36831.7760

picture of Ethyl chloride state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 Cl6 111.605 C1 C2 H7 111.971
C1 C2 H8 111.971 C2 C1 H3 109.268
C2 C1 H4 111.183 C2 C1 H5 111.183
H3 C1 H4 108.336 H3 C1 H5 108.336
H4 C1 H5 108.449 Cl6 C2 H7 106.055
Cl6 C2 H8 106.055 H7 C2 H8 108.836
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3LYPultrafine/6-31G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.435      
2 C -0.349      
3 H 0.157      
4 H 0.171      
5 H 0.171      
6 Cl -0.103      
7 H 0.194      
8 H 0.194      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.199 1.923 0.000 2.266
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -26.701 -0.358 0.000
y -0.358 -25.562 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -26.071
Traceless
 xyz
x -0.884 -0.358 0.000
y -0.358 0.824 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 0.060
Polar
3z2-r20.121
x2-y2-1.139
xy-0.358
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.850 0.997 0.000
y 0.997 5.297 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 3.826


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 80.032
(<r2>)1/2 8.946