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

C24H16F6N6O

Molecular formula

Molar mass518.423g/mol
Monoisotopic mass518.1290Da
Nominal mass518Da
Rings plus double bonds
17
Details
Monoisotopic mass
518.128978 Da
Average mass, unrounded
518.423419 g/molShown above to 3 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
0.1290 Da
Atoms
53

Isotope pattern

M · C24H16F6N6O · most intense peak 518.1290

0255075100518.0518.5519.0519.5520.0520.5521.0521.5522.0522.5518.1290100%519.131928.4%520.13474.09%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
C24H16F6N6O 518.1290
C24H17F6N6O+ 519.1363
C24H16F6N6NaO+ 541.1182
C24H16F6KN6O+ 557.0921
C24H20F6N7O+ 536.1628
C24H18F6N6O2+ 260.0718
C24H16F6N6O+ 518.1284
C24H15F6N6O− 517.1217
C24H16ClF6N6O− 553.0984
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
518.12898100.00 %75.2513 %
519.1318628.37 %21.3502 %
520.134654.09 %3.0747 %
521.137360.399 %0.3002 %
522.140010.030 %0.0222 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
C Carbon24288.26455.60
H Hydrogen1616.1283.11
F Fluorine6113.99021.99
N Nitrogen684.04216.21
O Oxygen115.9993.09

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
C55.60——
H3.11——
N16.21——
Anal. Calcd for C24H16F6N6O: C, 55.60; H, 3.11; N, 16.21.
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.