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

C8H16Br2

Molecular formula

Molar mass272.024g/mol
Monoisotopic mass269.9619Da
Nominal mass270Da
Rings plus double bonds
0
Details
Monoisotopic mass
269.961876 Da
Average mass, unrounded
272.024000 g/molShown above to 3 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
−0.0381 Da
Atoms
26

Isotope pattern

M · C8H16Br2 · most intense peak 271.9598

0255075100270271272273274275276271.9598100%269.961951.3%273.957848.9%272.96328.82%270.96534.53%274.96124.3%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
C8H16Br2 269.9619
C8H17Br2+ 270.9692
C8H16Br2Na+ 292.9511
C8H16Br2K+ 308.9250
C8H20Br2N+ 287.9957
C8H18Br22+ 135.9882
C8H16Br2+ 269.9613
C8H15Br2− 268.9546
C8H16Br2Cl− 304.9313
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
269.9618851.31 %23.5326 %
270.965294.53 %2.0795 %
271.95984100.00 %45.8647 %
272.963258.82 %4.0475 %
273.9578448.90 %22.4261 %
274.961214.30 %1.9713 %
275.964630.167 %0.0766 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
C Carbon896.08835.32
H Hydrogen1616.1285.93
Br Bromine2159.80858.75

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
C35.32——
H5.93——
Anal. Calcd for C8H16Br2: C, 35.32; H, 5.93.
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.