Carnosine: mass and molar amount
The molar mass of Carnosine is 226.23 g/mol. Everything on this page is computed from that figure, which was read from the public chemical record linked below.
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| Mass | Nanomoles | Micromoles |
|---|---|---|
| 100 mcg | 442.03 | 0.4420 |
| 250 mcg | 1105.07 | 1.1051 |
| 500 mcg | 2210.14 | 2.2101 |
| 1 mg | 4420.28 | 4.4203 |
| 2 mg | 8840.56 | 8.8406 |
| 5 mg | 22101.40 | 22.1014 |
| 10 mg | 44202.80 | 44.2028 |
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Molar mass | 226.23 g/mol |
| Molecular formula | C9H14N4O3 |
| CAS number | 305-84-0 |
| PubChem CID | 439224 |
| Retrieved | 2026-10-09 |
| Mass of one nanomole | 0.22623 mcg |
Where these figures come from
Also recorded as L-carnosine, beta-alanyl-L-histidine. The molar mass, formula and identifiers above were read from the public chemical record (PubChem CID 439224) on 2026-10-09. That record is the authority, not this page: it can change after the date it was retrieved, and the linked copy is the current version.
Regulatory register finding
A query of the FDA Drugs@FDA application register on 2026-10-09 returned no application records for this compound name. This compound is not approved by the FDA for human use.
That sentence records the result of an automated query against a public application register on 2026-10-09. It is not legal advice and is not a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction assessment of anything.
What a molar amount does and does not tell you
Dividing a mass by the molar mass gives a count of molecules in a convenient unit. That is the only figure on which two different compounds can be compared at all, because a milligram of a light molecule contains far more molecules than a milligram of a heavy one.
It stops there. Equal molar amounts are not equal potency, equal activity, equal binding or equal anything else, and nothing about how Carnosine behaves follows from the arithmetic on this page.
The research record
This site does arithmetic and holds no research findings. What the published literature reports about Carnosine, with citations and retrieval dates, is compiled on the research corpus: Carnosine on Peptide Monographs.
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