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Patent Abstracts

Coal-distillation gases, which may be partly dehydrogenated, are passed under high temperature and pressure over a metallic oxide catalyst, for example, over Fe₂O₃ at 300º-600º under 400 atm. pressure, and then, after cooling and removal of condensed products, are passed over a catalyst having a polymerizing and condensing action at normal or increased pressure, for example, over activated C at 100º-400º. Alcohols are obtained in the first stage and hydrocarbons in the second.

See also French Patent 613,541 (abs. 410).