Vinyl Chloride Vinyl Acetate

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Vinyl chloride vinyl acetate.

The major industrial route involves the reaction of ethylene and acetic acid with oxygen in the presence of a palladium catalyst. Vinyl chloride has been used in the past as. 4 related records expand this section. Since vinyl alcohol is highly unstable with respect to acetaldehyde the preparation of vinyl acetate is more complex than the synthesis of other acetate esters.

Vinyl acetate is the acetate ester of vinyl alcohol. 2 names and identifiers expand this section. About 13 billion kilograms are produced annually. Vinyl chloride is an organochloride with the formula h 2 c chcl that is also called vinyl chloride monomer vcm or chloroethene this colorless compound is an important industrial chemical chiefly used to produce the polymer polyvinyl chloride pvc.

Vinyl chloride vinyl acetate copolymer. 1 structures expand this section. Minor uses of vinyl chloride monomer include the manufacture of chlorinated solvents primarily 10000 tonnes per year of 1 1 1 trichloroethane and the production of ethylene diamine for the manufacture of resins who 1999. It also has excellent stretch properties at high temperature making it ideal as a material for secondary processing such as vacuum molding.