Daltons to Grams per Mole Converter
Common Conversions
| Da | g/mol |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |
| 10 | 10 |
| 18.015 | 18.015 |
| 58.44 | 58.44 |
| 100 | 100 |
| 180.16 | 180.16 |
| 342.3 | 342.3 |
| 1000 | 1000 |
| 10000 | 10000 |
| 66500 | 66500 |
| 100000 | 100000 |
| 1000000 | 1000000 |
Why this conversion matters in chemistry
The dalton describes the mass of a single molecule, written in atomic mass units. Grams per mole describes a mole of those molecules. The two units are numerically the same — a peptide with a measured mass of 5807.6 Da has a molar mass of 5807.6 g/mol — because the gram is defined as Avogadro's number of u. The conversion is the identity, but it sits at a useful junction in any workflow that moves between mass spectrometry and stoichiometry. An MS-determined insulin mass of 5808 Da becomes the 5808 g/mol that a dosing-mass calculation needs without any further arithmetic.
Formula
Worked Examples
Water — the most-cited reference for the identity, since the same value lives in every general-chemistry textbook.
Sucrose — the disaccharide whose molar mass anchors a lot of carbohydrate-chemistry calculations.
Bovine serum albumin — the protein-chemistry molar-mass workhorse, equivalent to 66.5 kDa.
Sodium chloride — the textbook molar-mass example, with the same number in both unit conventions.