Reported by:
Dr. W.S. Calcott, CWS, HQ ETOUSA
Lt. Col. J.G. Boyne (Br) M. of S.
Dr. P.J. Leaper, CWS, Hq ETOUSA
The plant was visited on 10 May 1945
date of report: 18 May, 1945
CIOS Black List Item - 22
Miscellaneous Chemicals
This report is an addition to other reports, but going a bit more into the nature of the concerned chemistry
Please be aware that this site was visited just when hostilities ceased. A few weeks later the Americans handed this part of Germany over to the Russians.
Keywords: Chief Organic Compounds .. ; Luran ...; Triethanolamine .. ; Glycerine Substitute .. ; Phosgene .. ; Oxidation of Hydrocarbons .. ; Soap Substitude .. ; Aldenhydes .. ; Fatty Acids .. ; Synthesis of Benzene .. ; Alanine ... ; Aliphatic Amines .. ; Adipic Acid .. ; Resin .. ; Production figures .. ;
Methanol, isobutanol and higher alcohols
Lubricating oils (from ethylene)
Phenol, cresols, xylenols, pyrocatechol and resercinol
Cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone
Epsilon amino caprioc acid (an intermediate for "Luran", the IG "Nylon")
Alcohols containing up to 10 carbon atoms, with traces of C12 alcohols
Tri-hydroxymethyl ethane
Iso octane
Alkaylate (Referred to as ET 120)
Mersol and Mersolat (soap substitute, made from a Fischer-Tropsch oil fraction)
Aldenhydes (e.g. Iso-butyric Aldeheyde)
Esters from adipic acid and Leuna alcohols
Acid from alcohols
Mono- di, and tri-methyl amines
Luran was not made at Leuna ... Landsburg, Berlin Premnitx and Wolfen ...
Fischer-Tropsch oil known as kogasin ...
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