Identification of long-chain 1,2-di- n -alkylbenzenes in Amposta crude oil from the Tarragona Basin, Spanish Mediterranean: Implications for the origin and fate of alkylbenzenes

Details Identification of long-chain 1,2-di- n -alkylbenzenes in Amposta crude oil from the Tarragona Basin, Spanish Mediterranean: Implications for the origin and fate of alkylbenzenes Identification of long-chain 1,2-di- n -alkylbenzenes in Amposta crude oil from the Tarragona Basin, Spanish Mediterranean: Implications for the origin and fate of alkylbenzenes

Dec 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991gecoa..55.3677s&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 55, Issue 12, pp.3677-3683

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Homologous series of C 15 -C 40 1,2-di- n -alkylbenzenes (with alkyl side chains containing 2 or more carbon atoms) were identified in the Amposta crude oil (Tarragona Basin, Spain). Structural assignments were confirmed by synthesis of the C 18 members of this series. These 1,2-dialkylbenzenes in combination with monoalkylbenzenes and 2-alkyltoluenes dominate the alkylbenzene distribution in this "immature" oil. This phenomenon lends support to the hypothesis that alkylbenzenes are formed in the subsurface by cyclisation and aromatisation reactions of linear, functionalised precursors. In other, more mature, oils other alkyltoluenes isomers are present as well and 1,2-dialkylbenzenes have not been reported. Isomerisation reactions of initially formed 2-alkyltoluenes during catagenesis may lead to the formation of thermodynamically more stable isomers (i.e., ortho and para alkyltoluenes) encountered in these more mature crude oils.

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