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

C6H18AlO9P3

Molecular formula

Molar mass354.104g/mol
Monoisotopic mass353.9979Da
Nominal mass354Da
Details
Monoisotopic mass
353.997907 Da
Average mass, unrounded
354.103824 g/molShown above to 3 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
−0.0021 Da
Atoms
37

Isotope pattern

M · C6H18AlO9P3 · most intense peak 353.9979

0255075100353.5354.0354.5355.0355.5356.0356.5357.0357.5358.0358.5353.9979100%355.00147.04%356.00242.06%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
C6H18AlO9P3 353.9979
C6H19AlO9P3+ 355.0052
C6H18AlNaO9P3+ 376.9871
C6H18AlKO9P3+ 392.9611
C6H22AlNO9P3+ 372.0317
C6H20AlO9P32+ 178.0062
C6H18AlO9P3+ 353.9974
C6H17AlO9P3− 352.9906
C6H18AlClO9P3− 388.9673
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
353.99791100.00 %91.5292 %
355.001397.04 %6.4430 %
356.002442.06 %1.8874 %
357.005710.133 %0.1218 %
358.006970.019 %0.0175 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
C Carbon672.06620.35
H Hydrogen1818.1445.12
Al Aluminum126.9827.62
O Oxygen9143.99140.66
P Phosphorus392.92126.24

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
C20.35——
H5.12——
Anal. Calcd for C6H18AlO9P3: C, 20.35; H, 5.12.
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.