congressane
Sign in to saveAlso known as decahydro-3,5,1,7-(1,2,3,4)butanetetraylnaphthalene, diadamantane, diamantane
thumb|Diamantane, colored by symmetry, carbon black, blue, purple, and hydrogen as white, yellow, and cyan Diamantane (also called congressane) is an organic compound that is a member of the diamondoids. These are cage hydrocarbons with structures similar to a subunit of the diamond lattice. It is a colorless solid that has been a topic of research since its discovery in oil and separation from deep natural gas condensates. Diamondoids such as diamantane exhibit unusual properties, including low surface energies, high densities, high hydrophobicities, and resistance to oxidation.
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- Mass
- 188.156501
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- chemical formula
- C₁₄H₂₀
- canonical SMILES
- C1C2CC3C4C1C5CC(C4)CC3C5C2
- Commons category
- Congressane
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thumb|Diamantane, colored by symmetry, carbon black, blue, purple, and hydrogen as white, yellow, and cyan Diamantane (also called congressane) is an organic compound that is a member of the diamondoids. These are cage hydrocarbons with structures similar to a subunit of the diamond lattice. It is a colorless solid that has been a topic of research since its discovery in oil and separation from deep natural gas condensates. Diamondoids such as diamantane exhibit unusual properties, including low surface energies, high densities, high hydrophobicities, and resistance to oxidation.
==Occurrence and history== Diamantane occurs naturally in crude petroleum. It is currently assumed that adamantanes and diamantanes were formed via the catalytic rearrangements of polycyclic naphthenic hydrocarbons. Although present in only trace concentrations in typical oils, due to their great thermodynamic stability, diamondoids such as diamantane are naturally concentrated by catagenesis, becoming important constituents of some natural gas condensates including those from the Norphlet Formation, U.S. Gulf of Mexico, and the Western Canada Basin. thumb|420px|center|Diamantane is the second member of this series of diamondoid hydrocarbons.