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      1390.  ------.  [I. G. FARBENINDUSTRIE, A. G.]  [Preparation of Aluminum Soaps.]  German Patent Appl. I 76,149, OZ 14,448, filed Oct. 30, 1943 (Cl. IV d-12 6)  FIAT Reel 170, frames 9,729-9,730: PB 25,614: Meyer Transl. PC-S-IV, Wax Oxidation, vol. 3. chap. 40, 1949, p. 18.

            All soaps can be prepared by heating soap-forming fatty acids with the Al salts of lower fatty acids such as Al formite or acetate at temperatures > the boiling points of the corresponding acids such as formic or acetic acids.  Temperatures of about 140º-250º are suitable.  It is advantageous to work under vacuum especially toward the end of the reaction, as the soap forming fatty acids paraffin oxidation products are suitable.