1237.    GREAT BRITAIN FUEL RESEARCH BOARD.  Lubricating Oil.  Fischer Process.  Rept. for the Year Ended Mar. 31, 1935, pp. 122-123.

        In working on the synthesis of liquid hydrocarbons from mixtures of CO and H₂, products have been obtained that embrace the entire series of paraffins from CH₄ to hard paraffin wax with the related olefins, but contain no fraction corresponding to a lubricating oil.  Recently, however, products are reported, the specifications of which are those of excellent lubricants.  These are formed by the polymerization with AlCl₃ of the fractions that are rich in unsaturated hydrocarbons.  Some investigation has been made sufficient to confirm the nature and condition of the synthesis reaction.