343.    ---------------. [BRENDLEIN, -----.] Synthesis of Methanol in Two Stages.  FIAT Reel M-38, frames 8130-8132, Mar. 22, 1943; PB 70,309. 

                  Proposes process that makes it unnecessary to split the synthesis gas into CO and H₂.  After the synthesis gas is freed from CO₂ it is compressed at 30 atm., and the CO is rinsed out with a MeOH solution of sodium methylate, which results in the formation of methyl formate.  The residual gas, which still contains certain quantities of CO, is converted by steam and supplies enough H₂ for the reduction cleavage of the methyl formate.