Molar mass

Molar mass, exact mass and elemental composition for any formula, compound or SMILES, with the isotope pattern, HRMS adducts and an elemental analysis check.

Formula or compound

Read as a formula
Examples:

Hydrates with · or *, charges as Fe3+ or SO4{2-}, labelled atoms as [13C] or D.

Molar mass

C10H14FeO4

Molecular formula

Molar mass254.063g/mol
Monoisotopic mass254.0241Da
Nominal mass254Da
Details
Monoisotopic mass
254.024145 Da
Average mass, unrounded
254.063000 g/molShown above to 3 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
0.0241 Da
Atoms
29

Isotope pattern

M · C10H14FeO4 · most intense peak 254.0242

0255075100252253254255256257258254.0242100%255.027113.4%252.02886.36%256.02821.95%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
C10H14FeO4 254.0241
C10H15FeO4+ 255.0314
C10H14FeNaO4+ 277.0134
C10H14FeKO4+ 292.9873
C10H18FeNO4+ 272.0580
C10H16FeO42+ 128.0193
C10H14FeO4+ 254.0236
C10H13FeO4− 253.0169
C10H14ClFeO4− 288.9935
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
252.028826.36 %5.1897 %
253.032230.708 %0.5776 %
254.02415100.00 %81.5383 %
255.0270513.43 %10.9535 %
256.028151.95 %1.5866 %
257.030540.174 %0.1419 %
258.032140.014 %0.0116 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
C Carbon10120.11047.28
H Hydrogen1414.1125.55
Fe Iron155.84521.98
O Oxygen463.99625.19

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
C47.28——
H5.55——
Anal. Calcd for C10H14FeO4: C, 47.28; H, 5.55.
How the masses are calculated

The molar mass sums the IUPAC standard atomic weights, using the conventional value for elements whose weight is given as an interval (hydrogen 1.008, carbon 12.011, sulfur 32.06). It is shown to the number of decimals of the least precise atomic weight in the formula, so CuSO4·5H2O gets two decimals because of sulfur; the unrounded value is under Details.

The monoisotopic mass uses the mass of the most abundant isotope of every element, the nominal mass its mass number. Labelled atoms, written [13C], D or T, count with their own nuclide mass and are taken as fully enriched. For an ion, one electron mass, 0.000 548 579 909 u, is subtracted per positive charge and added per negative charge.

How the isotope pattern is computed

Every element's natural isotope distribution is raised to its atom count by repeated squaring, and the element distributions are then convolved with each other. In centroid mode the isotopologues are grouped by nominal mass and each group is reported at its intensity-weighted mean m/z, which is what a mass spectrometer at ordinary resolution shows; this is exact apart from dropping contributions below 10−12 of the largest. Fine structure keeps isotopologues apart, merges those closer than 0.1 mDa and drops those below 10−8 of the largest, which resolves, for example, 34S from 13C2.

Adduct m/z values follow m/z = (M + adduct − z·me) / |z|. The copy button gives the line in the form the ACS journals print, for example “[M + H]+ Calcd for C8H11N4O2 195.0877”. The ACS guidelines ask that found and calculated m/z agree within 0.003 m/z units, the limit the found m/z check uses.

Elemental analysis

Calculated percentages are mass fractions from the standard atomic weights. Journals ask for found values within ±0.4 % (absolute) of the calculated ones. If a sample holds solvent, enter it as a solvate, for example 0.5 × H2O, and the calculated values are for C8H10N4O2·0.5H2O.

Sources

Standard atomic weights: IUPAC Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights, “Standard atomic weights of the elements 2021”, Pure Appl. Chem. 94, 573 (2022). Isotope masses and natural abundances: NIST, Atomic Weights and Isotopic Compositions for All Elements (Standard Reference Database 144). Electron mass: CODATA 2018, Rev. Mod. Phys. 93, 025010 (2021). Reporting criteria: ACS Author Guidelines for The Journal of Organic Chemistry and Organic Letters.