PATENTS

      1505.  ------.  [I. G. FARBENINDUSTRIE, A. G.]  [Production of Oxygenated Organic Compounds.}  German Patent Appl. I 72,605. OZ 13,521. filed June 26, 1942 (Cl. IV d-12 o).  FIAT Reel 168, frames 6,765-6,769; PB 68,397.

            Ethers or esters derived from alcohols with at least 2 C atoms, such as diethylether, tetrahydrofuran, also lactones such as butyrolactone, are reacted with CO and H₂ at raised pressure and temperature (100-250 atm. and 100º-250º) in presence of metals of group 8 or other carbonyl-forming metals or their compounds on kieselguhr or the like with activators such as compounds of Mn, Th, Zn, or Cu.  The products thus obtained are hydrogenated.