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

C9H10O2S

Molecular formula

Molar mass182.24g/mol
Monoisotopic mass182.0402Da
Nominal mass182Da
Rings plus double bonds
5
Details
Monoisotopic mass
182.040151 Da
Average mass, unrounded
182.237000 g/molShown above to 2 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
0.0402 Da
Atoms
22

Isotope pattern

M · C9H10O2S · most intense peak 182.0402

0255075100181.5182.0182.5183.0183.5184.0184.5185.0185.5186.0186.5182.0402100%183.043310.7%184.03765.4%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
C9H10O2S 182.0402
C9H11O2S+ 183.0474
C9H10NaO2S+ 205.0294
C9H10KO2S+ 221.0033
C9H14NO2S+ 200.0740
C9H12O2S2+ 92.0274
C9H10O2S+ 182.0396
C9H9O2S− 181.0329
C9H10ClO2S− 217.0096
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
182.04015100.00 %85.7072 %
183.0432510.71 %9.1834 %
184.037595.40 %4.6311 %
185.040350.503 %0.4310 %
186.040700.051 %0.0441 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
C Carbon9108.09959.32
H Hydrogen1010.0805.53
O Oxygen231.99817.56
S Sulfur132.06017.59

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
C59.32——
H5.53——
S17.59——
Anal. Calcd for C9H10O2S: C, 59.32; H, 5.53; S, 17.59.
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.