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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Examples:

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

Molar mass

C19H15ClO4

Molecular formula

Molar mass342.77g/mol
Monoisotopic mass342.0659Da
Nominal mass342Da
Rings plus double bonds
12
Details
Monoisotopic mass
342.065887 Da
Average mass, unrounded
342.775000 g/molShown above to 2 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
0.0659 Da
Atoms
39

Isotope pattern

M · C19H15ClO4 · most intense peak 342.0659

0255075100341.5342.0342.5343.0343.5344.0344.5345.0345.5346.0346.5347.0347.5342.0659100%344.063734.9%343.069320.9%345.06676.98%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
C19H15ClO4 342.0659
C19H16ClO4+ 343.0732
C19H15ClNaO4+ 365.0551
C19H15ClKO4+ 381.0290
C19H19ClNO4+ 360.0997
C19H17ClO42+ 172.0402
C19H15ClO4+ 342.0653
C19H14ClO4− 341.0586
C19H15Cl2O4− 377.0353
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
342.06589100.00 %61.0515 %
343.0692720.87 %12.7444 %
344.0636834.89 %21.2981 %
345.066686.98 %4.2611 %
346.069210.950 %0.5798 %
347.071800.098 %0.0598 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
C Carbon19228.20966.58
H Hydrogen1515.1204.41
Cl Chlorine135.45010.34
O Oxygen463.99618.67

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
C66.58——
H4.41——
Anal. Calcd for C19H15ClO4: C, 66.58; H, 4.41.
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.