The Pros And Cons Of Vinyl Acetate

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Vinyl acetate is an organic compound having formula CH3CO2CHCH2. It is a colorless liquid and flammable. Vinyl acetate have pungent smell and the characteristic smell can quickly become irritating. As it is an organic compound, vinyl acetate is completely soluble in organic liquids but it is insoluble in water. Vinyl acetate is produced via three different routes which is from acetylene, ethylene and acetaldehyde. The usage of acetylene and aldehyde as reactants for vinyl acetate manufacture was extensively replaced by ethylene due to the advantages the latter had.
Vinyl acetate is the monomer for principally polyvinyl acetate (PVA) and other polymer such as vinyl chloride acetate and ethylene-vinyl acetate. Therefore polymerization reaction