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 1835.    ---------------.  [KOCH, H., AND STEINBRINK, H.]  [Cracking of Paraffin Wax by Action of Aluminum Chloride Formed in Situ.]  Brennstoff-Chem., vol. 20, 1939, pp. 147-152; Chem. Abs., vol. 34, 1940, p. 6053.

        By treating a natural or a Kogasin paraffin wax with activated Al (5-10% of the wax) + HCl at 210°-260° (15-120 hr.), yields of 40-60% of gasoline and 10-155’ of gasol were obtained.  The gasoline contained no detectable quantities of C₆H₆ or toluene.  It consisted principally of paraffin hydrocarbons but contained also some alkyl chlorides.  Part of the latter decomposed on distillation; olefins were formed.