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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.