Vinylidene chloride → Acrylic Acid

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Reaction Steps

Vinylidene chloride (60.5g) was mixed together with 28.8. of methyl acrylate. 10.6 g of acrylic acid and 11.1 g of allyl monochloroacetate in 100 ml of methyl ethyl ketone to give a 50% by volume solution, the temperature of the methyl ethyl ketone being 40° C. Then as copolymerisation initiator 1.0 g of 2, 2'- azobisisobutyronitrile was added to the monomer solution. The solution was maintained at 40° C until the copolymerisation was complete, which took 6 days.

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