English Name: Methacrylic Acid
CAS No.: 79-41-4
Molecular formula: C4H6O2
Molecular weight: 86.09
EINECS No.: 201-204-4
Chemical properties: colorless and transparent liquid at room temperature. Soluble in hot water, ethanol and most organic solvents.
Uses: important organic chemical raw materials and intermediates of polymers. Its most important derivative, the plexiglass produced by methyl methacrylate, can be used in the windows of aircraft and civil buildings, and can also be processed into buttons, solar filters and automobile lamp lenses; The coating produced has superior suspension, rheological and durability characteristics; The binder can be used for bonding metal, leather, plastic and building materials; Methacrylate polymer emulsion is used as fabric finishing agent and antistatic agent. In addition, methacrylic acid can also be used as raw material for synthetic rubber.