Reduction of carbon monoxide by chromous hydroxide

Conclusions Chromous hydroxide reduces CO under mild conditions in protic media. The major reactions products are methane and methanol. Methane is formed from CO in the coordination sphere of the complex without the escape of formaldehyde or methanol into the solution.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 12, pp. 2788–2790, December, 1985.