# Tridecane

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**Tridecane** or ***n*-tridecane** is an [alkane](/source/Alkane) with the [chemical formula](/source/Chemical_formula) CH3(CH2)11CH3. Tridecane is a combustible colourless liquid. In industry, they have no specific value aside from being components of various fuels and solvents. In the research laboratory, tridecane is also used as a [distillation chaser](/source/Distillation_chaser).

## Natural occurrence

Nymphs of the [southern green shield bug](/source/Nezara_viridula) produce tridecane as a dispersion/aggregation [pheromone](/source/Pheromone), which possibly serves as a defense against [predators](/source/Predator).[2] It is also the main component of the defensive fluid produced by the stink bug *[Cosmopepla bimaculata](/source/Cosmopepla_bimaculata)*.[3]

## See also

- [Higher alkanes](/source/Higher_alkanes)
- [List of isomers of tridecane](/source/List_of_isomers_of_tridecane)

## References

1. ["tridecane – Compound Summary"](https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/12388). *PubChem Compound*. USA: National Center for Biotechnology Information. 16 September 2004. Identification. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20140506165944/http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/summary/summary.cgi?cid=12388&loc=ec_rcs) 6 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 4 January 2012.

1. Todd, J. W. (1989). "Ecology and behavior of *Nezara viridula*". *Annual Review of Entomology*. **34**: 273–292(20). [doi:10.1146/annurev.en.34.010189.001421](https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.en.34.010189.001421)

1. Krall, Brian S.; Bartelt, Robert J.; Lewis, Cara J.; Whitman, Douglas W. (1999). "Chemical Defense in the Stink Bug *Cosmopepla bimaculata*". *Journal of Chemical Ecology*. **25** (11): 2477–94(18). [Bibcode:1999JCEco..25.2477K](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999JCEco..25.2477K). [doi:10.1023/A:1020822107806](https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020822107806). [S2CID 13652977](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:13652977)

## External links

- [Material Safety Data Sheet for Tridecane](https://web.archive.org/web/20020707162749/http://ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/TR/tridecane.html)
- [Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases](https://archive.today/20121212232449/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/duke/chemical.pl?TRIDECANE)

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