Polyvinyl ester

Polyvinyl esters:
General formula

(R = CH3; CH2Cl; C2H5 etc.)

Polyvinyl esters are a group of thermoplastic vinyl polymers. The most important examples of this group are polyvinyl acetate (PVAC) and polyvinyl propionate.

Production

The radical polymerization of vinyl ester 1 (e.g. in case of vinyl acetate; R = CH3) yields polyvinyl ester 2:

Synthese der Polyvinylester
Synthese der Polyvinylester

Use

The transparent polymers are used for the production of lacquers and as adhesives. The hydrolytic cleavage of the ester bonds of vinyl acetate is of industrial significance.

References

  1. 1 2 Hans-Dieter Jakubke, Ruth Karcher (1999), Lexikon der Chemie in drei Bänden (in German), Heidelberg: Spektrum Verlag, p. 93, ISBN 3827403812
  2. ↑ Sebastian Kotzenburg, Michael Maskus, Oskar Nuyken (2014), Polymere: Synthese, Eigenschaften und Anwendungen (in German), Berlin: Springer Spektrum, pp. 429–430, ISBN 978-3-642-34772-6{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)