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

C44H70O23

Molecular formula

Molar mass967.021g/mol
Monoisotopic mass966.4308Da
Nominal mass966Da
Rings plus double bonds
10
Details
Monoisotopic mass
966.430789 Da
Average mass, unrounded
967.021000 g/molShown above to 3 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
0.4308 Da
Atoms
137

Isotope pattern

M · C44H70O23 · most intense peak 966.4308

0255075100966967968969970971972973966.4308100%967.434249.3%968.436916.6%969.43964.2%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
C44H70O23 966.4308
C44H71O23+ 967.4381
C44H70NaO23+ 989.4200
C44H70KO23+ 1005.3939
C44H74NO23+ 984.4646
C44H72O232+ 484.2227
C44H70O23+ 966.4302
C44H69O23− 965.4235
C44H70ClO23− 1001.4002
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
966.43079100.00 %58.4297 %
967.4342149.27 %28.7886 %
968.4368916.61 %9.7033 %
969.439614.20 %2.4513 %
970.442190.883 %0.5159 %
971.444760.160 %0.0935 %
972.447280.026 %0.0151 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
C Carbon44528.48454.65
H Hydrogen7070.5607.30
O Oxygen23367.97738.05

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
C54.65——
H7.30——
Anal. Calcd for C44H70O23: C, 54.65; H, 7.30.
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.