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

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

Molar mass

C17H36ClNO2

Molecular formula

Molar mass321.93g/mol
Monoisotopic mass321.2435Da
Nominal mass321Da
Rings plus double bonds
0
Details
Monoisotopic mass
321.243457 Da
Average mass, unrounded
321.930000 g/molShown above to 2 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
0.2435 Da
Atoms
57

Isotope pattern

M · C17H36ClNO2 · most intense peak 321.2435

0255075100321.0321.5322.0322.5323.0323.5324.0324.5325.0325.5326.0326.5321.2435100%323.241134.2%322.246819.2%324.24406.34%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
C17H36ClNO2 321.2435
C17H37ClNO2+ 322.2507
C17H36ClNNaO2+ 344.2327
C17H36ClKNO2+ 360.2066
C17H40ClN2O2+ 339.2773
C17H38ClNO22+ 161.6290
C17H36ClNO2+ 321.2429
C17H35ClNO2− 320.2362
C17H36Cl2NO2− 356.2129
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
321.24346100.00 %62.3047 %
322.2467619.24 %11.9889 %
323.2410834.16 %21.2820 %
324.244056.34 %3.9475 %
325.246800.703 %0.4383 %
326.249460.058 %0.0361 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
C Carbon17204.18763.43
H Hydrogen3636.28811.27
Cl Chlorine135.45011.01
N Nitrogen114.0074.35
O Oxygen231.9989.94

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
C63.43——
H11.27——
N4.35——
Anal. Calcd for C17H36ClNO2: C, 63.43; H, 11.27; N, 4.35.
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.