2061.     LANNING, H. J., AND CLARK, G. C.  Manufacture of Fatty Acids by Oxidation of Paraffins, Hydrogenation of the Fatty Acids at I. G. Farbenindustrie A.-G., Ludwigshafen-Oppau.  BIOS Final Rept. 748, September 1946, 21 pp., PB 47,720.

        As raw material for the production of fatty acids, synthetic paraffins obtained from hydrogenation of CO or from low-temperature carbonization of lignite were used.  The average melting point of the paraffins is 30°-50° and the average chain length C₁₈-C₃₀.  Oxidation was carried out with potassium permanganate.  Production and labor costs and yields are given; also flowsheets.

        LAPSHIN, S. I.  See abs. 3763, 3764, 3766.