Acrylic acid, addition

Soln. A and A should be made from substances of highest available purity and amount should be not more than a monthly consumption. Freeze the stock solutions in aliquots until use. The solutions must not be heated above 30 °C to avoid the formation of acrylic acid. Addition of a small amount of mixed-bed ion exchanger catches traces of acrylic acid and depresses interactions between gel matrix and protein. 

Dimer formation, which is favored by increasing temperature, generally does not reduce the quaHty of acryhc acid for most applications. The term dimer includes higher oligomers formed by further addition reactions and present in low concentrations relative to the amount of dimer (3-acryloxypropionic acid). Glacial acrylic acid should be stored at 16—29°C to maintain high quaHty. 

Extension of the chlorosulfonation technology to base resins other than polyethylene, where value can be added, seems a logical next step. Polypropylene and ethylene copolymers containing additional functionaUty, ie, maleic anhydride graft, vinyl acetate, acrylic acid, etc, have been chlorinated and chlorosulfonated to broaden the appHcation base, particularly in coatings and adhesives (9,10). 

The addition of benzonitrile oxide to acrylic acid gave only the 4-carboxylic acid (441) (59MI41601), while addition to cis- and trans-cinnamic esters gave cis and trans diastereomeric pairs of 4-carboxylic acids (442) (Scheme 100) (59MI41600). Arbisono repeated the experiment and, when methyl c/s-cinnamate was used, in addition to the 4-carboxylic acid some 5-carboxylic acid (442) was isolated (66MI41600). The reaction of vinyl bromides with benzonitrile oxide yielded only an isoxazole and not a bromoisoxazoline (Scheme 101) (78JCR(S)192). 

Efficiency means component 1 made per component 3 converted, all in molar units. Data show that 89.7% of the converted propylene was accounted for by the formed acrolein. An additional 9.8% efficiency is indicated for acrylic acid. Efficiency to total useftil product was 99.5% as long as ignition of homogeneous reaction could be avoided... 

Outdoors Well-spaced tanks, possibly with water cooling, refrigeration, buried Some monomers (e.g. acrylic acid) may require provisions to avoid freezing Provision for inhibitor/stabilizer addition Provision for atmosphere inerting may be required ... 

There have been other approaches to obtaining rubber/metal adhesion besides primers or additives consisting of phenolics or epoxies plus halogenated elastomers. For example, carboxylated polymers (olefins and diolefins copolymerized with acrylic acid monomers) have shown excellent adhesion to metals. Very little carboxyl is necessary, and polymers with carboxyl contents as low as 0.1% show good adhesion when laminated to bare steel. When these materials possess... 

The addition of comonomers during the polymerization enables a higher flexibility compared to PVAc-homopolymerizates. This results in a lower glass transition temperature and a lower minimum temperature of the film formation. Possible comonomers are acrylic acid esters (butylacrylate, 2-ethylhexylacrylate), dialkylfumarates, ethylene and others. 

Water-soluble polymers obtained through a radical polymerization [e.g., poly(acrylic acid) PAA] often contain sodium sulfate Na2S04 as a decomposition product of the initiator. The peak of Na2S04 is eluted before the dimer. In the interpretation of the chromatogram, a typical GPC program has to be truncated before the Na2S04 peak, or at a Mpaa value of about 200. The calibration curve in this region can be flattened by an additive small pore column as well, but the principle problem remains unsolved. 

These ionic strength effects are illustrated for p(acrylic acid) homopolymer in Fig. 19.5. With no ionic strength, the polymer is excluded. The addition of even 10 mM sodium nitrate has a marked effect, but once approximately 50 mM is reached, no further changes are seen. 

Enamine addition to an unsaturated ester, followed by an intramolecular alkylation, provided a facile synthesis of an adamantane bis-/3-ketoester 674). Michael addition of pyrrolidinocycloheptene to other acrylic esters 668) and of other enamines to acrylic acids 675), a chloroacrylonitrile 676), and an unsaturated cyanocarboxamide (577) were reported. 

Conversion of m-bromobenzonitrile to the tetrazole and addition of the elements of acrylic acid gives 7S, starting material for the patented synthesis of the antiinflammatory agent, bropera-mole (76). The synthesis concludes by activation with thionyl chloride and a Schotten-Baumann condensation with piperidine. 

In a partially crystalline homopolymer, nylon 6, property enhancement has been achieved by blending with a poly(ethylene-co-acrylic acid) or its salt form ionomer [24]. Both additives proved to be effective impact modifiers for nylon 6. For the blends of the acid copolymer with nylon 6, maximum impact performance was obtained by addition of about 10 wt% of the modifier and the impact strength was further enhanced by increasing the acrylic acid content from 3.5 to 6%. However, blends prepared using the salt form ionomer (Sur-lyn 9950-Zn salt) instead of the acid, led to the highest impact strength, with the least reduction in tensile... 

The kinetics of the reactive compatibilization of nylon-6-PP by acrylic acid modified PP was investigated by Dagli et al. [47]. The compatibilization reaction in this system involved the reaction between the acid group of acrylic acid modified PP and the amine group of nylon-6. A typical intensive batch mixer torque (t) vs time (t) trace for a ternary blend showing an increase in mixing torque upon the addition of PP-g-AA to a binary PP-NBR (85 7.5) blend is shown in Fig. 3. The kinetic... 

Reactive compatibilization of engineering thermoplastic PET with PP through functionalization has been reported by Xanthos et al. [57]. Acrylic acid modified PP was used for compatibilization. Additives such as magnesium acetate and p-toluene sulfonic acid were evaluated as the catalyst for the potential interchange or esterification reaction that could occur in the melt. The blend characterization through scanning electron microscopy, IR spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and... 

Isopropyl acrylate is produced by an acid catalyzed addition reaction of acrylic acid to propylene. The reaction occurs in the liquid phase at about100°C ... 

In the case of electron-deficient monomers (e.g, acrylics) it is accepted that reaction occurs by initial addition of the sulfate radical anion to the monomer. Reactions of sulfate radical anion with acrylic acid derivatives have been shown to give rise to the sulfate adduct under neutral or basic conditions but under acidic conditions give the radical cation probahly by an addition-elimination process. 

AA sec acrylic acid abstraction sec hydrogen atom transfer abstraction v,v addition and micleophilicity 35 by aikoxy radicals 34-5, 124-5, 392 by alkoxycarbonyloxy radicals 103,127-8 by alkyl radicals 34 5, 113, 116 by f-amyloxy radicals 124 by arenethiyl radicals 132 by aryl radicals 35, 118 by benzovloxy radicals 35, 53, 120, 126 wilh MM a" 53, 120 by /-butovy radicals 35, 53, 55, 124 solvent effects 54, 55. 123 with alkenes 122 3 with ally I acrylates 122 wilh AMS 120, 123 wilh BMA 53, 123 with isopropenvl acetate 121 with MA 120 with MAN 121 with MMA 53, 55, 120.419 with VAc 121 with vinyl ethers 123... 

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