Molecular mass distribution of aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons obtained from CO and H2 in the presence of Fe catalysts

It has been demonstrated that together with C₁-C₆ aliphatic hydrocarbons up to 20% C₆-C₉ aromatic hydrocarbons are formed from a mixture of COH₂ (11) in the presence of 8.2% Fe-4.5% K/Al₂O₃. A new method for determining the parameter a in the Schultz-Flory equation has been proposed which is applicable to the synthesis of low molecular mass C₁-C₆ hydrocarbons. It has been shown that the mass fractions of aromatic hydrocarbons are higher than the values expected on the basis of a step-wise mechanism for growth of the hydrocarbon chain.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 1, pp. 40–44, January, 1991.