PATENT

2989. -----.[RUHRCHEMIE, A.G.] [Oxidation of Paraffin to Fatty Acids.]  German Patent Appl. R 107,859, no date (Cl. IV d-12-o).  Auszüge deut. Patent-Anmeldungen, vol 6, p. 302.

High-molecular paraffins from the hydrogenation of CO are partly converted into chlorparaffins, the Cl is split off by heating and the Cl-free products are then oxidized in the usual manner, with sulfuric acid solutions of bichromates, to fatty acids.