“…It is well-known that 10 kinds of dimethylnaphthalene (DMN) isomers have similar physical properties such as boiling point and molecular polarity, especially 2,6-DMN and 2,7-dimethylnaphthalene (2,7-DMN) with only 0.3 °C difference in boiling point (Supporting Information Table S1) . Therefore, it is hardly possible to obtain high-purity (≥99.5%) 2,6-DMN by conventional processes, such as the distillation and adsorption operation. , In addition, 2,6-DMN forms eutectics together with 2,7-DMN, 1,5-dimethylnaphthalene (1,5-DMN), or 2,3-dimethylnaphthalene (2,3-DMN), which cannot be broken by melt crystallization.…”