1520. ------. [I. G. FARBENINDUSTRIE, A. G.] [Purifying Organic Compounds.] French Patent 746,640. June 2, 1933. Chem. Abs., vol. 27, 1933. p. 4538.

MeOH and other products of higher boiling point containing O, produced by the catalytic treatment of oxides of C with H₂, are purified by heating them to 100º-300º under a pressure >50 atm. in the presence of O-containing compounds, which are not reduced to the metallic state under the conditions of working, or S-containing compounds of heavy metals of the 1^st, 2d, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, or 8^th group, or a mixture of such compounds.