2131.     ---------------.  [LOEB, W.]  [Action of the Silent Electric Discharge on Moist Methane.]  Ber. deut. chem. Gesell., vol. 41, 1908, pp. 87-90; Chem. Abs., vol. 2, 1908, p. 1122.

        Moist CH4 was subjected under ordinary pressure to the silent electric discharge and obtained gaseous products consisting of CO2, CnH2n, CO, CnH2n+2, and about 35-45% of H2, and a colorless, insoluble, solid compound of composition C9H15O.  On decomposition with concentrated H2SO4 traces of fatty acids were detected.