Oxidation of oil shale kerogen by alkaline potassium permanganate

• Published in: Vestnik of geosciences
• Main Authors: Burdelnaya N., Sennikova Ya., Bushnev Dmitry
• Format: Text
• Language: Russian
• Published: FSBI FIC "Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences" 2024
• Subjects: Pechora
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.19110/geov.2023.12.6

We carried out the analytical oxidation of kerogen samples from oil shales of Ordovician kukersite from the Baltic region, Domanik shales from Timan-Pechora and Upper Jurassic oil shales of the Kashpir deposit by potassium permanganate in an alkaline medium. We performed a single-stage oxidation with 3.5 % solution of potassium permanganate, followed by analysis of trimethylsilyl derivatives of carboxylic acids using chromatography-mass spectrometry, and multi-stage oxidation by 0.5 % solution of potassium permanganate and analysis of oxidation products using IR spectroscopy. Some n-alkyl structures are peripherally associated with the kerogen matrix in the kerogen of Domanik and Jurassic shales, while in the structure of kukersite kerogen, n-alkyl structures are mainly connecting links for larger fragments. Milder, in case of a multi-stage process, oxidation results in formation of large fragments of kerogen, generally repeating its carbon structure, but more oxidized.