594.    ---------------.[COKE AND GAS.]  Synthesis of Higher Alcohols.  Vol. 9, 1947, pp. 273-277.

      Digest of the information found in CIOS reports XXX-103, PB 23,750, XXXII-96, PB 1,366, and XXXII-107, PB 6,650.  It discusses the production of alcohols up to C₀ by the I. G. Farbenindustrie, the process of the Ruhrchemie A.-G. for alcohols above C₆ and, in particular, the Synol process of the I. G. Farbenindustrie.  This process involves the reaction of a gas CO:H₂=1:0.7-0.8 at 18-25 atm. and 180°-200° over a sintered Fe catalyst.  The liquid products are mainly alcohols and hydrocarbons, the former being entirely straight-chain compounds; alcohols up to C₂₀ were made successfully.  The process was never operated on a full scale.