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Synthesis of adamantane and diamantane hydrocarbons by high-temperature cracking of higher n-alkanes

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Adamantanes and diamantanes, whose abiogenic synthesis from carbon and hydrogen is feasible, were synthesized via the high-temperature cracking of individual n-alkanes in order to reveal the possible ways of the genesis of hydrocarbons with a diamond-like structure. As a result of the high-temperature cracking of n-alkanes, all theoretically possible isomers of C10–C13 adamantanes and C14–C16 diamantanes are formed, as well as n-alkanes up to C35H72 and coke.

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  1. Gubkin State University of Oil and Gas, Leninskii pr. 65, Moscow, 119991, Russia

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Original Russian Text © G.N. Gordadze, M.V. Giruts, 2008, published in Neftekhimiya, 2008, Vol. 48, No. 6, pp. 412–417.

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Gordadze, G.N., Giruts, M.V. Synthesis of adamantane and diamantane hydrocarbons by high-temperature cracking of higher n-alkanes. Pet. Chem. 48, 414–419 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0965544108060029

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