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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: B97D3/6-31G*

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at B97D3/6-31G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1532.542778
Energy at 298.15K-1532.544019
HF Energy-1532.542778
Nuclear repulsion energy 
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 B97D3/6-31G*
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' 2923 2866 45.36      
2 A' 1807 1771 151.03      
3 A' 1368 1341 10.64      
4 A' 980 961 36.68      
5 A' 784 768 108.25      
6 A' 595 583 100.39      
7 A' 413 405 8.21      
8 A' 311 305 4.25      
9 A' 262 257 0.63      
10 A' 193 190 2.80      
11 A" 974 955 21.98      
12 A" 637 624 182.09      
13 A" 314 308 6.01      
14 A" 241 236 0.40      
15 A" 76 74 5.33      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5939.3 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9804) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5822.9 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 B97D3/6-31G*
ABC
0.05965 0.05350 0.04948

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B97D3/6-31G*

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.036 0.039 0.000
C2 0.930 -1.241 0.000
O3 0.500 -2.365 0.000
Cl4 -1.694 -0.345 0.000
Cl5 0.500 0.970 1.484
Cl6 0.500 0.970 -1.484
H7 2.010 -0.978 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.56132.44871.77171.81261.81262.2214
C21.56131.20392.77222.69732.69731.1118
O32.44871.20392.98193.65053.65052.0505
Cl41.77172.77222.98192.95742.95743.7578
Cl51.81262.69733.65052.95742.96882.8776
Cl61.81262.69733.65052.95742.96882.8776
H72.22141.11182.05053.75782.87762.8776

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 124.538 C1 C2 H7 111.069
C2 C1 Cl4 111.672 C2 C1 Cl5 105.888
C2 C1 Cl6 105.888 O3 C2 H7 124.394
Cl4 C1 Cl5 111.336 Cl4 C1 Cl6 111.336
Cl5 C1 Cl6 110.458
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B97D3/6-31G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.356      
2 C 0.276      
3 O -0.302      
4 Cl 0.098      
5 Cl 0.056      
6 Cl 0.056      
7 H 0.173      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.088 0.775 0.000 1.336
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -50.938 -0.505 0.000
y -0.505 -58.836 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -53.143
Traceless
 xyz
x 5.051 -0.505 0.000
y -0.505 -6.796 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.744
Polar
3z2-r23.488
x2-y27.898
xy-0.505
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 8.302 0.861 0.000
y 0.861 8.329 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 8.104


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 266.312
(<r2>)1/2 16.319