An industrially advantageous process for producing adamantane by which
high-purity adamantane reduced in coloration is efficiently produced
while minimizing the loss. The process, which is for producing adamantane
by isomerizing trimethylenenorbornane, includes (A) a reaction step of
isomerizing the starting material, (B) a concentration step of
concentrating the adamantane contained in the resultant liquid reaction
mixture, (C) a crystallization step of precipitating the concentrated
adamantane, (D) a solid-liquid separation step of separating the
adamantane crystals from the slurry resulting from the crystallization,
(E) a washing step of washing the isolated adamantane crystals, and (F) a
drying step of drying the adamantane crystals washed, characterized in
that the mass ratio of the endo-trimethylenenorbornane to the adamantane
each contained in the materials to be subjected to the crystallization
step (C) (endo-trimethylenenorbornane/adamantane) is 0.25 or lower.