An Oklahoma petroleum was fractionated by distillation into a series of 1°c uts. After removal of the toluene from the fractions boiling between 93°to 101°C, by nitration, and subsequent fractional distillations, most of the heptane and the methylcyclohexane were found to concentrate in the fractions boiling between 98°and 100°C. Both of these hydrocarbons were isolated in a practically pure condition by further distillation through a 35-foot laboratory column. For the final fractionation of the material by equilibrium melting a specially