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The dissolution of very viscous or solid reactants into proper solvents allows to process them more easily in the laboratory and can help to discern the products formed from their conversion. The technique can be particularly useful if the solvent were in turn inert, because in that case the products observed would only be formed by the reactant that is object of study. In order to assess conversion and product distribution from a resid, an equilibrium conventional commercial FCC catalyst was used (unit cell size 2.423 nm, specific surface area 139 m2/g, zeolite load 16.9%, rare earth oxides 1.26%, and Albemarle Accessibility Index 5 (AAI) 5.5). The residual feedstock (see Table 1 for properties) was an atmospheric tower resid from a naphthenic crude, which was diluted into toluene and methylnaphthalene. 6