Zhibin Wei

TL;DR: A series of isothermal hydrous pyrolysis experiments was performed on immature sedimentary rocks and peats of different lithology and organic source input to explore the generation of diamondoids during the thermal maturation of sediments.

TL;DR: Prospects for higher diamondoids syntheses by these pathways are bleak due to a lack of large polycyclic precursors, problems with intermediates trapped in local energy minima, disproportionation reactions leading to side products, and the exploding numbers of isomers as the size of target higher diamondoid products increases.

TL;DR: In this paper, the isotope ratios of individual organosulfur compounds in Upper Jurassic oil and condensate samples from the Smackover Fm were analyzed for detecting thermochemical sulfate reduction (TSR).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the presence of these clay minerals has a significant catalytic effect on the formation of diamondoids, and may catalyze diamondoid synthesis via carbonium ion mechanisms resulting from Lewis acid sites available on their surface.

TL;DR: In this article, a suite of Smackover-derived oils from the US Gulf Coast were analyzed to determine whether their abundance and distribution reflect alteration by thermochemical sulfate reduction (TSR).