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Formaldehyde Calculated Values and Other Data

This page is dedicated to formaldehyde. The optimized geometry of this molecule as well as the HOMO can be seen on this page. At the bottom of this page is a link that shows the vibrational data for formaldehyde.

This picture shows the calculated bond lengths and bond angles for formaldehyde. These calculations were made using the 6-311G level of theory.

	C-H Bond length (nm)	C=O Bond Length (nm)	H-C-H Bond Angle	H-C=O Bond Angle
Calculated Values	0.111	0.123	115.6	122.2
Literature Values	0.1111	0.1205	116.133	121.9

It can be seen that the calculates values and the literature values were very similar. The literature values were obtained from the National Institure of Standards and Technology website. Click here for a link to the site.

This is the HOMO of formaldehyde.

This was what the calculated HOMO of formaldehyde looked like. It can be easily seen that this is an anti-bonding orbital. The orbitals seen for carbon and oxygen are P_yorbitals.

Click here to view the vibrational data for formaldehyde.
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