Methyl acrylate is after butyl acrylate and ethyl acrylate the third most important acrylic ester with a worldwide annual production of about 200,000 tons in 2007. (wikipedia.org)
Kinetic study of specific base catalyzed hydrolysis of Ethyl Acrylate in water-Ethanol binary system. (ajrconline.org)
Esters1
Commonly, methyl acrylate (and other acrylate esters) are copolymerized with other alkenes to give useful engineering plastics. (wikipedia.org)
Methyl lactate1
Methyl acrylate is formed in good yield on pyrolysis of methyl lactate in the presence of ethenone (ketene). (wikipedia.org)
Acrylonitrile1
Copolymerizing methyl acrylate with acrylonitrile improves their melt processability to fibers, which could be used as precursors for carbon fibers. (wikipedia.org)
Acid2
Methyl acrylate is an organic compound, more accurately the methyl ester of acrylic acid. (wikipedia.org)
The standard industrial reaction for producing methyl acrylate is esterification with methanol under acid catalysis (sulfuric acid, p-toluenesulfonic acid or acidic ion exchangers. (wikipedia.org)
Form2
The transesterification is facilitated because methanol and methyl acrylate form a low boiling azeotrope (boiling point 62-63 °C). The patent literature describes a one-pot route involving vapor-phase oxidation of propene or 2-propenal with oxygen in the presence of methanol. (wikipedia.org)
Superglue is based upon a cyano-acrylate monomer which requires moisture, usually in the form of water or some other active hydrogen bearing compound to polymerise. (physlink.com)
A variety of vinyl monomers are used, including styrene and other acrylates. (wikipedia.org)
Catalysts2
The reaction of methyl formate with acetylene in the presence of transition metal catalysts also leads to methyl acrylate. (wikipedia.org)
Finally, the catalysts were employed in the oxa-Michael polymerization of 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate. (beilstein-journals.org)
Year1
Methyl acrylate is used for the preparation of 2-dimethylaminoethyl acrylate by transesterification with dimethylaminoethanol in significant quantities of over 50,000 tons / year. (wikipedia.org)