PATENT

3964.  ----- [WOODHOUSE, J. C.] (E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.). Denatured Alcohol. United States Patent 2,085,779, July 6, 1937, II, p. 2608; Chem. Abs., vol. 31, 1937, p. 5940.

There is used as a denaturant a mixture consisting essentially of aldehydes, esters and ketones of the liquid dehydrogenation products of O-containing compounds boiling above MeOH obtainable in the synthesis of MeOH and higher alcohols by catalytic hydrogenation.