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

HNNaO2

Molecular formula

Molar mass70.003g/mol
Monoisotopic mass69.9905Da
Nominal mass70Da
Details
Monoisotopic mass
69.990498 Da
Average mass, unrounded
70.002769 g/molShown above to 3 decimals, the precision of the least precise standard atomic weight in the formula.
Mass defect
−0.0095 Da
Atoms
5

Isotope pattern

M · HNNaO2 · most intense peak 69.9905

025507510069.570.070.571.071.572.072.569.9905100%%mass (Da)
IonFormulam/z
HNNaO2 69.9905
H2NNaO2+ 70.9978
HNNa2O2+ 92.9797
HKNNaO2+ 108.9537
H5N2NaO2+ 88.0243
H3NNaO22+ 36.0025
HNNaO2+ 69.9899
NNaO2− 68.9832
ClHNNaO2− 104.9599
Peak list
Mass (Da)Relative intensityAbundance
69.99050100.00 %99.1410 %
70.988970.453 %0.4491 %
71.994740.411 %0.4078 %

Elemental composition

ElementAtomsMass (g/mol)Mass %
H Hydrogen11.0081.44
N Nitrogen114.00720.01
Na Sodium122.99032.84
O Oxygen231.99845.71

Elemental analysis

ElementCalcd (%)Found (%)Δ
H1.44——
N20.01——
Anal. Calcd for HNNaO2: H, 1.44; N, 20.01.
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.