About Acrylic Acid

Acrylic Acid is the simplest unsaturated carboxylic acid, from the vinyl group with the carboxylic acid terminus. Acrylic Acid or its esters easily combine with themselves or other monomers and form homopolymers or copolymers.

SYNONYMS of Acrylic Acid : Propene Acid, Propenoic Acid, Vinylformic Acid
IUPAC NAME of Acrylic Acid : Propenoic Acid
STRUCTURAL FORMULA of Acrylic Acid : C3H4O2
PROPERTIES of Acrylic Acid :

• Acrylic Acid is incompatible with strong oxidizers, strong bases, strong alkalies and pure nitrogen
• Acrylic Acid is colorless liquid.
• Acrylic Acid has acrid odor.
• Acrylic Acid is miscible with water, alcohols, ethers and chloroform.
• Acrylic Acid is sensitive to heat and sunlight.
• Acrylic Acid can corrode with iron and steel.

USES of Acrylic Acid :

• Acrylic Acid is used in the production of acrylic esters and resins.
• Acrylic Acid also finds its place in oil treatment chemicals, detergent intermediates, water treatment chemicals, and water absorbent polyacrylic acid polymers.
• It is worldwide used for polymerization, including production of polyacrylates.
• Acrylic Acid is used while plastic manufacturing and used as the tackifier, as a flocculant, in the production of water-soluble resins and salts.
• It can also be used in polymer solutions for coatings applications, in paint formulations, in leather finishings, in paper coatings, in polishes and adhesives and in general finishes and binders.
• Acrylic Acid is used as the comonomer in acrylic emulsion and solution polymers and as the molding powder for signs, construction units, decorative emblems and insignias.

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