2035.     LACY, B. S., DUNNING, R. G., AND STORCH, H. H.  Equilibrium in the Synthesis and Decomposition of Methanol.  Jour. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 52, 1930, pp. 926-938; Chem. Abs., vol. 24, 1930, p. 2943.

        Average equilibrium constants for the reaction 2 H₂+CO=CH₃OH, measured at 300° and 250° from both sides, and at 200° from the synthesis side, all at 50 atm. pressure, were 1.9 x 10^-4, 1.25 x 10^-3 and 3 x 10^-2, respectively, and 1.8 x 10^-3 at 250° and 20 atm. from the synthesis side.  Similar constants were found by calculations, using the reactions of HCOOMe and H₂ and of MeOH and CO.  (See abs. 560, 2448, and 3209.)