Isotope Pattern
https://xraytools.com/isotopes?formula=C32H26N2O2Ni
The distribution of molecular masses that the natural isotopic composition of the elements produces — the M, M+1, M+2 series a mass spectrum shows — together with the monoisotopic and average mass.
- You supply
- A chemical formula, in the same grammar every other page here uses. Whole atoms only: a pattern describes one molecule, so a fractional stoichiometry is refused rather than rounded. Write a charge into the formula (
SO4^2-,Na+) and every mass becomes m/z, electron mass included. - Reading it
- This is an exact combinatorial result, not a simulated spectrum: no resolution, no peak shape, no adducts and no fragmentation. Which peak is tallest is not the monoisotopic one for tin or a polybrominated compound, and the chart says what its heights are measured against.
Worked examples: a nickel complex · dibromomethane · tin tetrachloride · a sulfate anion
See also: Absorption Coefficient Calculator · CHN Calculator
What each input changes
- Show peaks above
- The floor, as a percentage of the tallest peak, below which a peak is left out of the table. Between 0.001 and 100: above 100 nothing would be listed, and at 0 a large molecule lists thousands of combinations no spectrometer separates.
Input
Results
| formula: | C32H26N2O2Ni |
|---|---|
| monoisotopic mass: | 528.1348 |
| average mass: | 529.2556 |
| base peak: | 528.1348 |
Pattern
| mass | nucleons | relative / % | abundance / % | made of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 528.1348 | 528 | 100.00 | 47.524 | monoisotopic 100.0 % |
| 529.1380 | 529 | 35.72 | 16.974 | 13C 96.9 %, 15N 2.0 %, 2H 0.8 %, 17O 0.2 % |
| 530.1318 | 530 | 45.12 | 21.443 | 60Ni 85.4 %, 2 13C 12.9 %, 18O 0.9 %, 13C + 15N 0.6 %, other combinations 0.3 % |
| 531.1337 | 531 | 16.27 | 7.733 | 13C + 60Ni 81.9 %, 61Ni 10.3 %, 3 13C 3.9 %, 15N + 60Ni 1.7 %, other combinations 2.2 % |
| 532.1310 | 532 | 8.56 | 4.069 | 62Ni 62.4 %, 2 13C + 60Ni 26.1 %, 13C + 61Ni 6.8 %, 18O + 60Ni 1.8 %, other combinations 2.9 % |
| 533.1325 | 533 | 2.35 | 1.116 | 13C + 62Ni 78.7 %, 3 13C + 60Ni 10.3 %, 2 13C + 61Ni 4.1 %, 13C + 18O + 60Ni 2.3 %, other combinations 4.5 % |
| 534.1291 | 534 | 1.76 | 0.836 | 64Ni 77.3 %, 2 13C + 62Ni 17.6 %, 18O + 62Ni 1.2 %, 4 13C + 60Ni 1.1 %, other combinations 2.7 % |
These are the relative abundances that follow from the natural isotopic composition of the elements — an exact combinatorial result, not a simulated spectrum. There is no instrument here: no resolution, no peak shape, no adducts and no fragmentation. Combinations with the same number of nucleons are shown as one peak at their abundance-weighted mass, which is what an instrument of ordinary resolving power sees; at high resolution several of these would split. Abundances are relative to the tallest peak, which is not always the monoisotopic one. Point at a peak or at its row to mark both; click to keep it marked, and click it again or press Escape to let go.
The last column names the isotope substitutions each peak is made of, as percentages of that peak, counted from the composition in which every element takes its most abundant nuclide — the same composition the monoisotopic mass is defined from. Two substitutions with the same nucleon count are one peak here and two different molecules in a high-resolution spectrum. Where a peak has more combinations than the column lists, the rest are summed as other combinations, so the percentages always add up to 100.
Where this comes from
- Isotopic compositions of the elements 2013 (IUPAC Technical Report)
J. Meija et al., Pure Appl. Chem. 2016, 88, 293–306 · doi:10.1515/pac-2015-0503
The representative compositions every pattern here is built from, and the warning that goes with them: a representative composition describes normal terrestrial material, not the sample in your instrument.