142.    BANDTE, G.  [Manufacture of Motor Fuel From Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen.]  Naturwissenschaften, vol. 14, 1926, pp. 732-735; Chem. Abs., vol. 20, 1926, p. 3225.

                  Review dealing with new processes for complete gasification and oleofication of coal.  Synthesis of the Radische process (German Patents 293,787, 295,202, 295,203), transforms water gas by means of metal-oxide catalysts into oily and aqueous products.  One example of this process if the MeOH synthesis (ZnO catalysts, temperature 200°-600°, 50-150 atm. pressure); iron carbonyl Fe (CO)₅, antiknock (motalin), is a byproduct.  Franz Fischer prepares synthol by catalysis at 400°-450° up to 150 atm. pressure with an alkali-Fe mixture and obtains a motor fuel from the water-insoluble fraction.  This synthesis is possible also (see abs. 1021) without high pressure of a Fe-Zn oxide catalyst is used (or Co-Cr oxide) and yields higher CH₄ homologs at temperatures around 270°; metal carbides are intermediary products (at higher temperatures CH₄ is the only product formed).  Yield of useful hydrocarbons is about 55%.  The product gasol, is mainly C₂H₆, C₃H₈, and C₄H₁₀, little unsaturated, nonresinifying, clear, and not sensitive to light.  Refining appears unnecessary for use as motor fuel, d₁₅=0.6718, distillation 75.3% up to 100°, 96.4% up to 180°; the rest is kerosinelike, d₂₀=0.7804.  Occasionally solid paraffin, melting at 61°, was formed.  The importance of the absence of high-pressure installations for this synthesis is emphasized.

                  BANGERT, F.  See abs. 977.

                   BANGERT, W. M.  See abs. 1729.