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The distributions of hopanoic acids, ranging from C-30 to C-34, in the Messel oil shale were characterized in both the free and bound states. The bound acids were released by thermochemolysis in the presence of tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH). These were compared with the distributions of the hopanoic acids and hopanes released or generated from Messel oil shale kerogen following closed system microscale pyrolysis. This comparison revealed that epimerization had occurred at C-17, C-21 and C-22 during heating. It was also clear that the residual bound hopanoic acids had undergone configurational isomerization. During the pyrolysis there is a large loss of hopanoic acids following their rapid release from the kerogen into the free fraction even at 250 degreesC. In these particular experiments this loss does not appear to result in exclusive formation of hopanes, by way of decarboxylation or reduction reactions, unless the resulting hopanes are either themselves rapidly transformed into other compounds or the reaction rates are a function of the total number of carbon atoms in each hopanoic acid precursor. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Author(s): Sugden MA, Abbott GD
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Organic Geochemistry
Year: 2002
Volume: 33
Issue: 12
Pages: 1515-1521
ISSN (print): 0146-6380
ISSN (electronic): 1873-5290
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0146-6380(02)00114-6
DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(02)00114-6
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