Abstract
The rare organic mineral dinite was found during the last century at Castelnuovo Garfagnana, Tuscany, Italy. After a chemical study, which indicated an erroneous chemical formula C 18 H 16 , it was stored in the Mineralogical Museum of the University of Pisa, where it was recently relocated. A new chemical analysis was carried out on dinite, and NMR, IR and mass spectra are presented here. The new data allows a re-definition of dinite as a distinct mineralogical species, with chemical formula C 20 H 36 . Single crystal X-ray diffraction work showed dinite to be orthorhombic, space group P2 1 2 1 2 1 , with a=12.356, b=12.762, c=11.247 A. Its crystal structure has been refined up to R=0.068. Dinite is an alicyclic saturated hydrocarbon with three condensed cycles in the formula unit
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