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

Read as a formula
Examples:

Hydrates with · or *, charges as Fe3+ or SO4{2-}, labelled atoms as [13C] or D.

Molar mass

C6HCl5

Molecular formula

Molar mass250.32g/mol
Monoisotopic mass247.8521Da
Nominal mass248Da
Rings plus double bonds
4
Details
Monoisotopic mass
247.852088 Da
Average mass, unrounded
250.324000 g/molShown above to 2 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
−0.1479 Da
Atoms
12

Isotope pattern

M · C6HCl5 · most intense peak 249.8491

0255075100247248249250251252253254255256257258259249.8491100%251.846264.1%247.852162.4%253.843320.6%250.85256.5%252.84964.16%248.85544.06%255.84043.31%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
C6HCl5 247.8521
C6H2Cl5+ 248.8594
C6HCl5Na+ 270.8413
C6HCl5K+ 286.8152
C6H5Cl5N+ 265.8859
C6H3Cl52+ 124.9333
C6HCl5+ 247.8515
C6Cl5− 246.8448
C6HCl6− 282.8215
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
247.8520962.44 %23.3947 %
248.855454.06 %1.5209 %
249.84915100.00 %37.4678 %
250.852506.50 %2.4337 %
251.8462164.10 %24.0158 %
252.849554.16 %1.5579 %
253.8432920.56 %7.7052 %
254.846611.33 %0.4988 %
255.840393.31 %1.2394 %
256.843670.213 %0.0799 %
257.837600.215 %0.0806 %
258.840760.014 %0.0051 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
C Carbon672.06628.79
H Hydrogen11.0080.40
Cl Chlorine5177.25070.81

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
C28.79——
H0.40——
Anal. Calcd for C6HCl5: C, 28.79; H, 0.40.
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.