Acrylic Acid → Prop-2-enoic acid--6-methylheptyl prop-2-enoate (1/1)

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A premix was prepared using isooctyl acrylate (IOA) and acrylic acid (AA) combined with 0.04 gram KB-1 photoinitiator per hundred weight of IOA and AA. The mixture was partially polymerized in an inert nitrogen atmosphere using a bank of 40-Watt fluorescent black lights (Sylvania Model Number F48T12/22011/40, available from Osram Sylvania of Danvers, Mass.) to provide a coatable syrup as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,028,484. The monomer conversion in the coatable syrup was approximately 10-15%. In this manner, syrups were prepared having weight ratios of IOA:AA of 100:0, 98:2, 95:5, 90:10, and 85:15.

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