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Diamonds from Crude Oil?
Author(s) -
Hopf Henning
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200301631
Subject(s) - diamondoid , adamantane , diamond , nanotechnology , materials science , nanometre , chemistry , mineralogy , organic chemistry , metallurgy , composite material , molecule
A girl's best friend and diamondoid hydrocarbons have something in common: transparent glass crystals of [121312]hexamantane ( 1 ) appear like diamonds with a pronounced luster. Regarding 1 as a jewel, it may be thought of as a nanometer‐sized diamond of 10 −20 carat (1 carat=0.2 g). This and other advances in adamantane chemistry are presented herein.