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

H3NNiO4S

Molecular formula

Molar mass171.78g/mol
Monoisotopic mass170.9136Da
Nominal mass171Da
Details
Monoisotopic mass
170.913621 Da
Average mass, unrounded
171.780400 g/molShown above to 2 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
−0.0864 Da
Atoms
10

Isotope pattern

M · H3NNiO4S · most intense peak 170.9136

0255075100171172173174175176177178179170.9136100%172.909343.8%174.90667.45%173.90922.23%176.90581.66%171.91311.34%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
H3NNiO4S 170.9136
H4NNiO4S+ 171.9209
H3NNaNiO4S+ 193.9028
H3KNNiO4S+ 209.8768
H7N2NiO4S+ 188.9474
H5NNiO4S2+ 86.4641
H3NNiO4S+ 170.9131
H2NNiO4S− 169.9063
ClH3NNiO4S− 205.8830
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
170.91362100.00 %63.7850 %
171.913091.34 %0.8558 %
172.9092743.82 %27.9512 %
173.909182.23 %1.4203 %
174.906557.45 %4.7541 %
175.906350.174 %0.1112 %
176.905851.66 %1.0605 %
177.905740.021 %0.0134 %
178.903460.075 %0.0477 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
H Hydrogen33.0241.76
N Nitrogen114.0078.15
Ni Nickel158.69334.17
O Oxygen463.99637.25
S Sulfur132.06018.66

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
H1.76——
N8.15——
S18.66——
Anal. Calcd for H3NNiO4S: H, 1.76; N, 8.15; S, 18.66.
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.