Sodium Hydroxide → HCID 66670047, compound

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Reaction Steps

12 g. of styrene-vinyl acetate (prepared by General Preparation proceudure described above) were dissolved in 150 ml of dioxane in a reaction flask equipped as described above. To this was added 1.05 g of sodium hydroxide in 15 ml of water. The reaction was heated to reflux overnight. The resulting styrene-vinyl alcohol copolymer was obtained by precipitation in methanol, washed successively with water and excess methanol then dried overnight in a vacuum oven. The product was identified by spectroscopic analyses.

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