PATENTS

      1601.  ------.  [I. G. FARBENINDUSTRIE A. G.]  Synthetic Oxygenated Organic Compounds by Catalytic Hydrogenation of Carbon Oxides.  British Patent 300,294, July 7, 1927.  Chem. Abs., vol. 23, 1929. p. 3933.

Various compounds such as alcohols, esters, and acids are made by passing C oxides and H₂ at an elevated temperature, suitably 250°-350°, and either under ordinary or under elevated pressure, which may be up to 1,000 atm., over catalysts comprising a mixture of considerable amounts of Fe, Co, Ni, Pt, Pd, or other metal of the 8^th periodic group with Cu, Au, Ag, Ce, Zr, Al, V, U, Cr, Mo, W, Mn, alkali or alkaline earth, metals of their compounds.  Gives numerous details.