PATENTS

2968. ----- [RUHRCHEMIE, A. G.]  Manufacture of Products Including Oxygen-Containing Organic Compounds by Hydrogenation of Carbon  Monoxide.  British Patent 668,419, 1952.  Fuel Abs., vol.11, 1952, abs. 4030.

Hydrogenation is effected in the presence of an Fe catalyst that has been obtained by precipitation from solution by an alkali metal compound, the precipitated catalyst mass obtained having been incompletely washed so that the catalyst contains an alkali metal  content of 3-20 wt. % of the Fe present in the catalyst, the alkali metal content being calculated as K2O and the Fe being determined as metal.