Process for the manufacture of oxygen-containing carbon compounds from synthesis gas

摘要

Acetic acid, ethanol, acetic aldehyde and possibly the secondary products thereof are prepared by the catalytic reaction of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The catalyst contains applied onto a carrier, metallic rhodium, halide ions and magnesium salts or complex compounds of magnesium or compounds of magnesium with oxides of elements from groups III to VI of the Periodic Table.