“…Major work in the compositional and structural analysis of high-boiling petroleum distillates (360 ı C-525 ı C) was implemented in the early 1970s under API project 60, to support an upgrading program in the U.S. refinery industry (Coleman et al, 1973;Dooley et al, 1974aDooley et al, , 1974bDooley et al, , 1974cHinds, 1969Hinds, , 1970Badoni et al, 1992;Al Zaid et al, 1998;Kapur et al, 2000;C. Zhang et al, 2008).…”