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Process for the production of a nonknocking motor fuel comprises catalytically reducing compounds such as aldehydes and alcohols of 3 or more C atoms in the molecule, obtained from the catalytic reduction of CO with H₂ and which on reduction produces hydrocarbons of branched chain structure boiling in the motor-fuel range.