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Alcoholysis of copolymers of vinyl acetate with itaconic acid
Author(s) -
Kotzeva L.,
Mateva R.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.1990.070390701
Subject(s) - itaconic acid , vinyl acetate , copolymer , methanol , vinyl alcohol , polymer chemistry , chemistry , polymer , materials science , organic chemistry
We studied alcoholysis of vinyl acetate and itaconic acid (up to 8.5 mol %) copolymers. We obtained the copolymers both by single and continuous addition of the second comoner, and carried out the alcoholysis in methanol and methanol‐gasoline medium at temperature 30°C using sodium hydroxide as catalyst. We established that the presence of itaconic sequences in the vinyl acetate polymer chain in an amount of 1.5–2 mol % causes significant reduction in the viscosity of methanol solutions without greatly affecting the molecular weight of the copolymer. The alcoholysis of random copolymers, containing not more than 4 mol % itaconic sequences takes place at a higher rate. The vinyl acetate‐vinyl alcohol copolymer, containing groups of itaconic acid has better surface activity. This is more clearly expressed in the case of random copolymers.