NOVELTY - An ethanol composition (C1) comprises: (a) ethanol (at least 85 wt.%); (b) water (less than 12 wt.%); and (c) isopropanol (95-850 weight parts per million (wppm)).    USE - As ethanol composition (claimed), useful in a variety of applications including fuels, solvents, chemical feedstocks, pharmaceutical products, cleansers, sanitizers, hydrogenation transport or consumption; in fuel applications for automobiles, boats and small piston engine aircrafts; in non-fuel applications, the finished ethanol composition is used as a solvent for toiletry and cosmetic preparations, detergents, disinfectants, coatings, inks, and pharmaceuticals; or as a processing solvent in manufacturing processes.    ADVANTAGE - The ethanol compositions are obtained from production processes that do not rely on petrochemical feed stocks, and do not utilize fermentation techniques, and may contain undesired components such as isopropanol, methanol or other alcohols in very small amounts.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - INDEPENDENT CLAIMS are included for the following:    (1) an ethanol composition produced directly from acetic acid by a carbonylation reaction of methanol, comprising: (a) ethanol (at least 85 wt.%), (b) isopropanol (1-850 wppm), and (c) n-propanol (less than 500 wppm);    (2) an ethanol composition synthesized via hydrogenation and purified using at least one distillation column, comprising: (a) ethanol (at least 85 wt.%), (b) isopropanol (95-850 wppm), and (c) diethyl acetal (less than 10 wppm);    (3) an ethanol composition synthesized via acetic acid hydrogenation comprising: (a) ethanol, and (b) diethyl acetal (0.1-10 wppm);    (4) an ethanol composition prepared by a process involving: hydrogenating an acetic acid feed stream in the presence of a catalyst to form a crude ethanol product; separating at least a portion of the crude ethanol product in a first column into a first distillate comprising ethanol, water and ethyl acetate, and a first residue comprising acetic acid; separating at least a portion of the first distillate in a second column into a second distillate comprising ethyl acetate and a second residue comprising ethanol and water; and separating at least a portion of the second residue in a third column into a third distillate comprising the ethanol composition and a third residue comprising water; and    (5) an ethanol composition prepared by a process for recovering the ethanol composition, involving: providing a crude ethanol product comprising ethanol, water, acetic acid, and ethyl acetate; separating the crude ethanol product in a first column into a first distillate comprising ethanol, water and ethyl acetate, and a first residue comprising acetic acid; separating the first distillate in a second column into a second distillate comprising ethyl acetate and a second residue comprising ethanol and water; and separating the second residue in a third column into a third distillate comprising the ethanol composition and a third residue comprising water.