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

C14H17N5

Molecular formula

Molar mass255.325g/mol
Monoisotopic mass255.1484Da
Nominal mass255Da
Rings plus double bonds
9
Details
Monoisotopic mass
255.148396 Da
Average mass, unrounded
255.325000 g/molShown above to 3 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
0.1484 Da
Atoms
36

Isotope pattern

M · C14H17N5 · most intense peak 255.1484

0255075100255.0255.5256.0256.5257.0257.5258.0258.5255.1484100%256.151117.2%257.15381.39%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
C14H17N5 255.1484
C14H18N5+ 256.1557
C14H17N5Na+ 278.1376
C14H17KN5+ 294.1116
C14H21N6+ 273.1822
C14H19N52+ 128.5815
C14H17N5+ 255.1478
C14H16N5− 254.1411
C14H17ClN5− 290.1178
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
255.14840100.00 %84.2994 %
256.1511117.16 %14.4693 %
257.153781.39 %1.1699 %
258.156390.070 %0.0592 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
C Carbon14168.15465.86
H Hydrogen1717.1366.71
N Nitrogen570.03527.43

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
C65.86——
H6.71——
N27.43——
Anal. Calcd for C14H17N5: C, 65.86; H, 6.71; N, 27.43.
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.