PATENT

3807.  ----- [VEREINIGTE OELFABRIKEN HUBBE & FARENHOLTZ] [Oxidation Products of High-Molecular Hydrocarbons.] German Patent Appl. V 35,930, no date (Cl. IV d-12 o). Auszüge deut. Patent-Anmeldungen, vol. 6, p. 377.

Fatty acids or alcohols are obtained by steadily passing an oxidizing gas stream through the hydrocarbons in the reaction vessel. The gas stream is passed thruogh the reaction vessel at greater velocity than the hydrocarbons.