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

C8H20F6NP

Molecular formula

Molar mass275.219g/mol
Monoisotopic mass275.1238Da
Nominal mass275Da
Rings plus double bonds
−3
Details
Monoisotopic mass
275.123756 Da
Average mass, unrounded
275.219181 g/molShown above to 3 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
0.1238 Da
Atoms
36

Isotope pattern

M · C8H20F6NP · most intense peak 275.1238

0255075100275.0275.5276.0276.5277.0277.5275.1238100%276.12699.25%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
C8H20F6NP 275.1238
C8H21F6NP+ 276.1310
C8H20F6NNaP+ 298.1130
C8H20F6KNP+ 314.0869
C8H24F6N2P+ 293.1576
C8H22F6NP2+ 138.5692
C8H20F6NP+ 275.1232
C8H19F6NP− 274.1165
C8H20ClF6NP− 310.0932
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
275.12376100.00 %91.2098 %
276.126939.25 %8.4350 %
277.130090.380 %0.3467 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
C Carbon896.08834.91
H Hydrogen2020.1607.33
F Fluorine6113.99041.42
N Nitrogen114.0075.09
P Phosphorus130.97411.25

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
C34.91——
H7.33——
N5.09——
Anal. Calcd for C8H20F6NP: C, 34.91; H, 7.33; N, 5.09.
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.