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Moles to Picomoles Converter
↔ Convert pmol to mol instead

Common Conversions

mol pmol
1e-12 1
1e-11 10
1e-10 100
1e-9 1000
1e-8 10000
1e-7 100000
0.000001 1000000
0.001 1000000000
0.01 10000000000
0.1 100000000000
1 1000000000000

Why this conversion matters in chemistry

Take qPCR standard-curve construction. A 100 pmol synthetic-template stock, serially diluted across seven log decades, anchors Ct values down to single-copy sensitivity. The conversion from 1 × 10⁻¹⁰ mol into 100 pmol is how every quantitative PCR calibration trace gets built. The same accounting underlies digital-droplet PCR when partitioning a known copy number into tens of thousands of nanoliter droplets. The 10¹² pmol per mol is four SI prefix steps (mol → mmol → µmol → nmol → pmol) reduced to a single multiplier.

Formula

pmol = mol × 1000000000000

Worked Examples

1 mol = 1 × 10¹² pmol

The conversion anchor — twelve prefix decades, the full span of the relationship.

1e-9 mol = 1000 pmol

1 nmol — the bridge step between bench prep and pmol-scale assays.

1e-12 mol = 1 pmol

Exactly one picomole — about 6 × 10¹¹ molecules.

0.001 mol = 1 × 10⁹ pmol

1 mmol — about a typical small-scale benchtop reaction in pmol.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I convert mol to pmol?
Multiply by 10¹². So 10⁻⁹ mol becomes 1000 pmol = 1 nmol. The relationship is exact through four SI prefix steps.
Why use picomoles?
Picomoles match the scale of DNA and RNA quantities in molecular biology. A typical PCR reaction uses 10–100 pmol of each primer; sequencing-library prep operates in the same range. The unit keeps the arithmetic readable.
What's the mass of 1 pmol of a 20-base DNA primer?
A 20-base ssDNA has MW ≈ 6000 g/mol, so 1 pmol × 6000 × 10⁻¹² = 6 × 10⁻⁹ g = 6 ng. Useful as a sanity check on a primer-stock calculation.
What's the SI prefix chain for amount?
mol → mmol (10⁻³) → µmol (10⁻⁶) → nmol (10⁻⁹) → pmol (10⁻¹²) → fmol (10⁻¹⁵) → amol (10⁻¹⁸). Each step scales by 1000 — eighteen orders of magnitude top to bottom.