Methacrylic Acid → 2-Methylprop-2-enoic acid--ethyl prop-2-enoate (1/1)

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A three stage polymer is made as follows: Into an agitator equipped first (feed) reactor containing 34.3 grams of deionized water (D.I.) and 3.3 grams of sodium lauryl sulfate (30% active in water wt./wt.), 2.5 grams of Ethal SA-20, 65.1 grams of ethyl acrylate and 34.5 grams of methacrylic acid are added under nitrogen atmosphere and mixed at 500 rpm to form a monomer emulsion. To an agitator equipped second reactor are added 600 grams of deionized water and 1.27 grams of sodium lauryl sulfate (30% active in water wt./wt.). The contents of the second reactor are heated with mixing agitation (200 rpm) under a nitrogen atmosphere. When the contents of the second reactor reaches a temperature of approximately 84° C., 11.0 grams of an ammonium persulfate solution (2.0% aqueous solution wt./wt.) is injected into the heated surfactant solution. The monomer emulsion from the feed reactor (maintained at approximately 85° C.) is gradually metered at a feed rate of 0.94 g/min. into the second reactor over a period of 15 minutes. The monomer emulsion is reacted in a first stage polymerization to form linear core polymer particles of ethyl acrylate/methacrylic acid copolymer.

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