PATENTS

      1497.   ------.  [I. G. FARBENINDUSTRIE, A. G.]  [Production of Oxidation Products of Solid Hydrocarbons.]  German Patent Appl. I 63,487. OZ 11,285. filed Jan. 13. 1939 (Cl. IV d-12 o).  FIAT Reel J-281. frame 2,758.

            In preparing oxidation products from solid hydrocarbon mixtures or their solid constituents obtained by the catalytic reduction of CO with H2, the hydrocarbon mixtures are freed from the branched-chain hydrocarbons contained therein by treatment with solvents or with condensing, polymerizing, or oxidizing agents or by sweating or pressing and then oxidized.