Research Article

Vibrational Spectroscopy Investigation Using Ab Initio and Density Functional Theory Analysis on the Structure of tert-Butyl 3a-Chloroperhydro-2,6a-epoxyoxireno[e]isoindole-5-carboxylate

Table 4

Theoretically computed energies, zero-point vibrational energies, entropies and dipole moment for the title compound.

Thermodynamic parameterHFBLYPB3LYP
6-31G(d)6-31G(d,p)6-31G(d)6-31G(d,p)6-31G(d)6-31G(d,p)

Total energy (a.u.) −1316.1201 −1316.1634 −1321.6722 −1321.6975 −1322.0277 −1322.0532
Zero-point vibrational energy (kcal/mol) 206.307 205.270 184.792 184.321 191.332 190.656
Entropy (cal/mol K)
 Total 130.140 130.324 138.036 130.906 135.418 128.758
 Translational 42.862 42.862 42.862 42.862 42.862 42.862
 Rotational 33.707 33.705 33.821 33.775 33.757 33.725
 Vibrational 53.571 53.758 61.353 54.269 58.799 52.170
Dipole moment (D) 4.4 4.4 3.8 3.7 4.0 3.9