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

C2HClF2

Molecular formula

Molar mass98.48g/mol
Monoisotopic mass97.9735Da
Nominal mass98Da
Rings plus double bonds
1
Details
Monoisotopic mass
97.973484 Da
Average mass, unrounded
98.476806 g/molShown above to 2 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
−0.0265 Da
Atoms
6

Isotope pattern

M · C2HClF2 · most intense peak 97.9735

025507510097.598.098.599.099.5100.0100.5101.0101.597.9735100%99.970532%98.97692.17%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
C2HClF2 97.9735
C2H2ClF2+ 98.9808
C2HClF2Na+ 120.9627
C2HClF2K+ 136.9366
C2H5ClF2N+ 116.0073
C2H3ClF22+ 49.9940
C2HClF2+ 97.9729
C2ClF2− 96.9662
C2HCl2F2− 132.9429
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
97.97348100.00 %74.1389 %
98.976852.17 %1.6123 %
99.9705432.01 %23.7302 %
100.973900.696 %0.5159 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
C Carbon224.02224.39
H Hydrogen11.0081.02
Cl Chlorine135.45036.00
F Fluorine237.99738.58

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
C24.39——
H1.02——
Anal. Calcd for C2HClF2: C, 24.39; H, 1.02.
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.