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

C24H46O4

Molecular formula

Molar mass398.628g/mol
Monoisotopic mass398.3396Da
Nominal mass398Da
Rings plus double bonds
2
Details
Monoisotopic mass
398.339610 Da
Average mass, unrounded
398.628000 g/molShown above to 3 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
0.3396 Da
Atoms
74

Isotope pattern

M · C24H46O4 · most intense peak 398.3396

0255075100398.0398.5399.0399.5400.0400.5401.0401.5402.0402.5398.3396100%399.343026.6%400.34594.23%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
C24H46O4 398.3396
C24H47O4+ 399.3469
C24H46NaO4+ 421.3288
C24H46KO4+ 437.3028
C24H50NO4+ 416.3734
C24H48O42+ 200.1771
C24H46O4+ 398.3391
C24H45O4− 397.3323
C24H46ClO4− 433.3090
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
398.33961100.00 %76.0936 %
399.3430326.64 %20.2707 %
400.345954.23 %3.2186 %
401.348730.497 %0.3784 %
402.351470.047 %0.0356 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
C Carbon24288.26472.31
H Hydrogen4646.36811.63
O Oxygen463.99616.05

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
C72.31——
H11.63——
Anal. Calcd for C24H46O4: C, 72.31; H, 11.63.
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.