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

C45H54N4O8

Molecular formula

Molar mass778.947g/mol
Monoisotopic mass778.3942Da
Nominal mass778Da
Rings plus double bonds
21
Details
Monoisotopic mass
778.394165 Da
Average mass, unrounded
778.947000 g/molShown above to 3 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
0.3942 Da
Atoms
111

Isotope pattern

M · C45H54N4O8 · most intense peak 778.3942

0255075100778.0778.5779.0779.5780.0780.5781.0781.5782.0782.5783.0783.5784.0778.3942100%779.397451.1%780.400314.4%781.40322.92%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
C45H54N4O8 778.3942
C45H55N4O8+ 779.4014
C45H54N4NaO8+ 801.3834
C45H54KN4O8+ 817.3573
C45H58N5O8+ 796.4280
C45H56N4O82+ 390.2044
C45H54N4O8+ 778.3936
C45H53N4O8− 777.3869
C45H54ClN4O8− 813.3636
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
778.39416100.00 %59.1937 %
779.3973851.06 %30.2231 %
780.4003414.41 %8.5313 %
781.403172.92 %1.7304 %
782.405930.471 %0.2789 %
783.408630.064 %0.0377 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
C Carbon45540.49569.39
H Hydrogen5454.4326.99
N Nitrogen456.0287.19
O Oxygen8127.99216.43

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
C69.39——
H6.99——
N7.19——
Anal. Calcd for C45H54N4O8: C, 69.39; H, 6.99; N, 7.19.
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.