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

C2H3Cl

Molecular formula

Molar mass62.50g/mol
Monoisotopic mass61.9923Da
Nominal mass62Da
Rings plus double bonds
1
Details
Monoisotopic mass
61.992328 Da
Average mass, unrounded
62.496000 g/molShown above to 2 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
−0.0077 Da
Atoms
6

Isotope pattern

M · C2H3Cl · most intense peak 61.9923

025507510061.562.062.563.063.564.064.565.065.561.9923100%63.989432%62.99572.2%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
C2H3Cl 61.9923
C2H4Cl+ 62.9996
C2H3ClNa+ 84.9815
C2H3ClK+ 100.9555
C2H7ClN+ 80.0262
C2H5Cl2+ 32.0034
C2H3Cl+ 61.9918
C2H2Cl− 60.9851
C2H3Cl2− 96.9617
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
61.99233100.00 %74.1218 %
62.995732.20 %1.6289 %
63.9893832.01 %23.7251 %
64.992780.703 %0.5212 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
C Carbon224.02238.44
H Hydrogen33.0244.84
Cl Chlorine135.45056.72

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
C38.44——
H4.84——
Anal. Calcd for C2H3Cl: C, 38.44; H, 4.84.
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.