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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: B3LYP/3-21G*

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at B3LYP/3-21G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1525.481786
Energy at 298.15K-1525.483158
HF Energy-1525.481786
Nuclear repulsion energy426.533200
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 B3LYP/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' 3015 2901 27.50      
2 A' 1760 1693 92.65      
3 A' 1411 1358 7.50      
4 A' 965 928 36.95      
5 A' 809 778 83.36      
6 A' 609 586 85.99      
7 A' 423 407 5.30      
8 A' 314 302 3.57      
9 A' 263 253 1.69      
10 A' 203 195 2.86      
11 A" 1036 997 27.46      
12 A" 664 639 144.74      
13 A" 329 316 4.61      
14 A" 241 232 0.88      
15 A" 91 88 6.21      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 6066.6 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.962) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5836.1 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 B3LYP/3-21G*
ABC
0.06031 0.05335 0.04906

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B3LYP/3-21G*

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.043 0.042 0.000
C2 0.932 -1.233 0.000
O3 0.494 -2.368 0.000
Cl4 -1.683 -0.376 0.000
Cl5 0.494 0.984 1.482
Cl6 0.494 0.984 -1.482
H7 1.997 -0.960 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.55372.45141.77651.81291.81292.1950
C21.55371.21602.75172.70222.70221.0996
O32.45141.21602.95113.66463.66462.0590
Cl41.77652.75172.95112.96432.96433.7259
Cl51.81292.70223.66462.96432.96362.8689
Cl61.81292.70223.66462.96432.96362.8689
H72.19501.09962.05903.72592.86892.8689

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 124.062 C1 C2 H7 110.469
C2 C1 Cl4 111.262 C2 C1 Cl5 106.513
C2 C1 Cl6 106.513 O3 C2 H7 125.469
Cl4 C1 Cl5 111.344 Cl4 C1 Cl6 111.344
Cl5 C1 Cl6 109.641
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3LYP/3-21G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.477      
2 C 0.316      
3 O -0.353      
4 Cl 0.119      
5 Cl 0.084      
6 Cl 0.084      
7 H 0.226      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.244 0.656 0.000 1.406
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -51.871 -0.640 0.000
y -0.640 -59.902 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -54.124
Traceless
 xyz
x 5.142 -0.640 0.000
y -0.640 -6.905 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.763
Polar
3z2-r23.526
x2-y28.031
xy-0.640
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 7.591 1.038 0.000
y 1.038 7.495 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 7.465


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 267.051
(<r2>)1/2 16.342