478. DEUTSCHE GOLD- UND SILBER SCHEIDEANSTALT VORMALS ROESSLER. [Process for Carrying Out Catalytic Reactions With Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen.] Swiss Patent 204,840, Aug. 1, 1939; appl. filed March 3, 1938. Chem. Zentralb., 1940, I. p. 628.

Patent Abstracts

MeOH synthesis is carried out by the use of neutral Zn carbonate, which has been obtained by precipitation from a Zn salt solution with a soluble (alkali) carbonate at low temperature in amorphous form and has been changed in the mother liquor at low temperature until the precipitate has assumed a crystalline structure as catalyst.