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

Molar mass

C38H72N2O2

Molecular formula

Molar mass589.006g/mol
Monoisotopic mass588.5594Da
Nominal mass588Da
Rings plus double bonds
4
Details
Monoisotopic mass
588.559380 Da
Average mass, unrounded
589.006000 g/molShown above to 3 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
0.5594 Da
Atoms
114

Isotope pattern

M · C38H72N2O2 · most intense peak 588.5594

0255075100588.0588.5589.0589.5590.0590.5591.0591.5592.0592.5593.0593.5594.0588.5594100%589.562742.7%590.56599.32%591.56901.38%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
C38H72N2O2 588.5594
C38H73N2O2+ 589.5667
C38H72N2NaO2+ 611.5486
C38H72KN2O2+ 627.5225
C38H76N3O2+ 606.5932
C38H74N2O22+ 295.2870
C38H72N2O2+ 588.5588
C38H71N2O2− 587.5521
C38H72ClN2O2− 623.5288
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
588.55938100.00 %65.1010 %
589.5626842.73 %27.8207 %
590.565889.32 %6.0665 %
591.568991.38 %0.8999 %
592.572030.156 %0.1018 %
593.575020.014 %0.0093 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
C Carbon38456.41877.49
H Hydrogen7272.57612.32
N Nitrogen228.0144.76
O Oxygen231.9985.43

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
C77.49——
H12.32——
N4.76——
Anal. Calcd for C38H72N2O2: C, 77.49; H, 12.32; N, 4.76.
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.