2207.     ---------------.  [MATTHEWS, M. A.]  Acetylene by the Arc; Also the Oxosynthesis at Ruhrchemie, Holten.  BIOS Final Rept. 747, Sept. 1946, 4 pp.; PB 52,880.

        Besides the production of C₂H₂ from CH₄ by high-temperature cracking, some details are given regarding a plant that was under construction for the production of alcohols from the C₁₁-C₁₈ olefins obtained from Fischer-Tropsch Kogasin by the Oxosynthesis, that is, addition of CO and H₂ under pressure to give the aldehyde and subsequent reduction by H₂ under pressure to the alcohol.  The catalyst is the normal Fischer-Tropsch catalyst of Co-ThO₂-kieselguhr.  The yield of alcohols is approximately 100% by weight of the olefins present in the reaction mixture.  The mixed alcohols are to be used for manufacture of detergents.