Sulfuric Acid → Sulfuric acid--prop-2-enamide (1/1)

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Reaction Steps

Until recent times, it was customary to prepare acrylamide by reacting acrylonitrile with sulfuric acid in an aqueous environment to produce acrylamide sulfate. The acrylamide sulfate would then be neutralized with sodium or ammonium hydroxide and then cooled. During the cooling process, quite pure acrylamide would be precipitated in the form of snowy white crystals.

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