3808.  ----- [VEREINIGTE OELFABRIKEN HUBBE & FARENHOLTZ] [Oxidizing Hydrocarbons.] French Patent 837,524, Feb. 13, 1939. Chem. Abs., vol. 33, 1939, p. 5865.

Higher hydrocarbons are oxidized to acids or alcohols by solid, liquid, or gaseous oxidizing agents in several reaction vessels, a gaseous current being led successively through the various vessels and supplementary amount of gas being added to the 2d and succeeding vessels. Describes apparatus.

See also British Patent 5506,104 (abs. 640).