Friday, January 13, 2012

Methanol(methyl alcohol), CH3OHis a vey imortant industrial chemical. Formerly, methanol was prepared by?

heating wood to high temperatures in the absence of air. The complex compounds present in wood are degraded by this process into a charcoal residue and a volatile portion that is rich in methanol. Today, methanol is instead synthesized fro carbon monoxide and elemental hydrogen. Could someone please write the balanced chemical equation for this latter process.

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