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

C6H9F3O2

Molecular formula

Molar mass170.131g/mol
Monoisotopic mass170.0555Da
Nominal mass170Da
Rings plus double bonds
1
Details
Monoisotopic mass
170.055464 Da
Average mass, unrounded
170.131209 g/molShown above to 3 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
0.0555 Da
Atoms
20

Isotope pattern

M · C6H9F3O2 · most intense peak 170.0555

0255075100169.5170.0170.5171.0171.5172.0172.5173.0173.5170.0555100%171.05896.67%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
C6H9F3O2 170.0555
C6H10F3O2+ 171.0627
C6H9F3NaO2+ 193.0447
C6H9F3KO2+ 209.0186
C6H13F3NO2+ 188.0893
C6H11F3O22+ 86.0350
C6H9F3O2+ 170.0549
C6H8F3O2− 169.0482
C6H9ClF3O2− 205.0249
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
170.05546100.00 %93.1977 %
171.058876.67 %6.2155 %
172.060520.598 %0.5576 %
173.063370.030 %0.0281 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
C Carbon672.06642.36
H Hydrogen99.0725.33
F Fluorine356.99533.50
O Oxygen231.99818.81

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
C42.36——
H5.33——
Anal. Calcd for C6H9F3O2: C, 42.36; H, 5.33.
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.