2608. ------. [PATART, G.] [Methanol and Liquid Hydrocarbons From Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen.] French Patent 593,648, Feb. 7, 1925. British Chem. Abs., B, 1927, p. 347.

Gas mixtures containing H₂ and CO and C₂H₄ or its higher gaseous homologs are submitted to the action of the catalysts used in the synthesis of MeOH. Thus a mixture of 23% C₂H₄, 22% CO, 49% H₂, 1.2% CO₂, 0.5% O₂, and 4% N₂ was passed over a basic Zn chromate catalyst at 300° and 150-250 atm. pressure; the cooled reaction product formed 2 layers of which the upper consisted of hydrocarbons d.¹⁵ 0.735 and possessed the fluorescence characteristic of some petroleum hydrocarbons. The lower layer was almost pure MeOH, d.¹³ 0.805, b. p. 66°-68°.