PATENT

3392. ----- [SOCIÉTÉ CHIMIQUE DE LA GRANDE PAROISSE, AZOTE ET PRODUITS CHIMIQUES.]  [Organic Oxygen Compounds.]  French Patent 651,167, Aug. 24, 1927.  Chem. Abs., vol. 23, 1929, p. 3231.

Alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, esters, and other organic O compounds are  produced by the action of CO, or gases  containing it, on H₂O in the liquid or gaseous state in the presence of mixed catalysts containing at least 1 of the series: K, Na, Mg,  V, Cr, Mo, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Ag, Zn, Cd, Hg, As, Sb, Bi, associated with at least 1 of the series: Be, Mg, Al, Ce, Si, Ti, Zr, Th, U, Li, Ca, Sr,  Ba, W.  In examples, mixed carbonates of Mn, Mg, and Al are reduced at 300° with CO, and a mixture of CO and H₂O is passed through at 450°, the excess of H₂O contains 5-6% of various alcohols.  A solution of ThO₂ and K₂CO₃ in HCOOH is dried on pumic stone, a current of CO at 250° and 500 atm. is passed over it and finally a mixture of CO and H₂O a solution of HCOOH is obtained.  Soluble and insoluble esters are obtained when CuCO₃, ThO₂, and Bi₂O₃ are used a solution of alcohol when MnO₂, Al, and Mg or Pb(NO₃)₂ and Sr(NO₃)₂ are used: alcohols and other compounds when Sb₂O₃ and Th(NO₃) and Co(NO₃)₂ are used.