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

C42H61KO16

Molecular formula

Molar mass861.032g/mol
Monoisotopic mass860.3597Da
Nominal mass860Da
Details
Monoisotopic mass
860.359667 Da
Average mass, unrounded
861.032300 g/molShown above to 3 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
0.3597 Da
Atoms
120

Isotope pattern

M · C42H61KO16 · most intense peak 860.3597

0255075100860861862863864865866860.3597100%861.363146.7%862.363121.2%863.36486.5%864.36661.58%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
C42H61KO16 860.3597
C42H62KO16+ 861.3669
C42H61KNaO16+ 883.3489
C42H61K2O16+ 899.3228
C42H65KNO16+ 878.3935
C42H63KO162+ 431.1871
C42H61KO16+ 860.3591
C42H60KO16− 859.3524
C42H61ClKO16− 895.3291
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
860.35967100.00 %56.6905 %
861.3630846.75 %26.5026 %
862.3631221.19 %12.0108 %
863.364776.50 %3.6840 %
864.366651.58 %0.8970 %
865.368800.316 %0.1791 %
866.371050.054 %0.0306 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
C Carbon42504.46258.59
H Hydrogen6161.4887.14
K Potassium139.0984.54
O Oxygen16255.98429.73

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
C58.59——
H7.14——
Anal. Calcd for C42H61KO16: C, 58.59; H, 7.14.
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.