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A steady decrease in raw hydrocarbon reserves and industrial carbon dioxide accumulation in the atmosphere forces researches to develop alternative ways to obtain energy and petrochemical feedstock. Nowadays the most promising replacement for conventional oil is biomass. Herewith with biomass refining a new task rises to develop an approach to process byproducts of such process: technical grade glycerol, acetone etc. As shown in [1] one of the perspective methods to convert oxygen containing compounds to value added products is their mutual catalytic cracking with hydrocarbons. However today for authors’ knowledge systematic studies concerning this approach are still lacking in scientific literature. The goal of the present research is a systematic study of mutual catalytic cracking of model compounds: acetone, representing one of the classes of bio-derived compounds, and C6 hydrocarbons representing each of the classes of organic hydrocarbon compounds – n-hexane, hexane-1, cyclohexane, benzene. Catalytic experiments were carried out on laboratory unit with stationary catalyst bed at 500 °C. Different conversion levels were achieved via catalyst to feed variation. Detailed study of occurring substrate reactions was carried out via in situ FTIR spectroscopy at temperature of 400 °C.