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In this study, we propose a method combining nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and high-temperature gas-phase analysis to achieve a simple and accurate calculation of the structural information of lubricant base oils. Four structural parameters of FT lubricant base oils\u2014namely, the average carbon number (C<jats:sup>*<\/jats:sup>), the number of branched chain nodes (B), the degree of branching (BI), and the structural index (BC<jats:sup>*<\/jats:sup>)\u2014were successfully calculated using a series of empirical equations. Subsequently, we correlated the molecular structure parameters of the oils with their density, viscosity, viscosity index, and condensation point. Effective fitting equations were developed and quantitatively verified. Studies have shown that the physicochemical properties of lubricant base oils can be related to the structural parameters <jats:italic><jats:bold>BC<\/jats:bold><\/jats:italic><jats:sup><jats:bold>*<\/jats:bold><\/jats:sup> or <jats:italic><jats:bold>BBC<\/jats:bold><\/jats:italic><jats:sup><jats:bold>*<\/jats:bold><\/jats:sup>. <jats:italic><jats:bold>BBC<\/jats:bold><\/jats:italic><jats:sup><jats:bold>*<\/jats:bold><\/jats:sup> fits better, with an <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic><jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup> value of up to 0.91 or more, except for the condensation point. Density correlates well with viscosity, with a calculation error of &amp;lt;5%. This method of calculating the structural information of lubricant base oils can be applied to the structural determination of many hydrocarbon base oil molecules, while the simulation equations can simultaneously be used as a reference for the structure-function relationship of distillate base oils.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/frma.2025.1415831","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,1]],"date-time":"2025-05-01T05:39:36Z","timestamp":1746077976000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Using nuclear magnetic resonance to assist in calculating the structure of Fischer-Tropsch lubricant"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Hu","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tengfei","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yushan","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xuemei","family":"Liang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xingyu","family":"Su","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Liangcheng","family":"An","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nana","family":"Fan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Likun","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Linhua","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"3017","DOI":"10.1007\/s13399-021-01336-w","article-title":"Non-edible\/waste cooking oil\u2013derived sustainable green multifunctional copolymeric additives for mineral base oil","volume":"13","author":"Agarwal","year":"2023","journal-title":"Biomass Convers. 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