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

C57H98O6

Molecular formula

Molar mass879.405g/mol
Monoisotopic mass878.7363Da
Nominal mass878Da
Rings plus double bonds
9
Details
Monoisotopic mass
878.736341 Da
Average mass, unrounded
879.405000 g/molShown above to 3 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
0.7363 Da
Atoms
161

Isotope pattern

M · C57H98O6 · most intense peak 878.7363

0255075100879880881882883884885878.7363100%879.739863%880.743020.7%881.74624.74%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
C57H98O6 878.7363
C57H99O6+ 879.7436
C57H98NaO6+ 901.7256
C57H98KO6+ 917.6995
C57H102NO6+ 896.7702
C57H100O62+ 440.3754
C57H98O6+ 878.7358
C57H97O6− 877.7291
C57H98ClO6− 913.7057
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
878.73634100.00 %52.7791 %
879.7397563.01 %33.2537 %
880.7430120.75 %10.9505 %
881.746154.74 %2.5002 %
882.749210.839 %0.4429 %
883.752210.122 %0.0646 %
884.755160.015 %0.0080 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
C Carbon57684.62777.85
H Hydrogen9898.78411.23
O Oxygen695.99410.92

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
C77.85——
H11.23——
Anal. Calcd for C57H98O6: C, 77.85; H, 11.23.
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.