Acrylamide → Isooctyl Acrylate Acrylamide Vinyl Acetate

Participants

Reaction Steps

Isooctyl acrylate (148 g), acrylamide (12 g), vinyl acetate (40 g), 2,2'azobis(2,4-dimethylpentanenitrile) (0.30 g), ethyl acetate (310 g) and methanol (30.7 g) were added to a glass bottle. The bottle was purged with nitrogen for 3 minutes at a flow rate of 1 liter per minute. The bottle was sealed and placed in a rotating water bath at 45° C. for 29.5 hours to effect essentially complete polymerization. The inherent viscosity in ethyl acetate was 1.20 deciliter/g.

Provenance & Evidence