Chemical properties:
Colorless flammable liquid with a sweet ether aroma. It is miscible with ethanol, soluble in organic solvents such as ether, acetone, chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, and insoluble in water.
Uses:
1. Vinyl acetate is the main raw material for the manufacture of synthetic fiber vinylon. Vinyl acetate is polymerized by itself or copolymerized with sub-monomers to obtain polyvinyl alcohol, vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (EVA), vinyl acetate-vinyl chloride copolymer (EVC), vinyl acetate-acrylonitrile fibers, and vinyl acetate-acrylate copolymers. They all have important industrial uses and are widely used as adhesives, architectural coatings, textile sizing agents and finishing agents, paper reinforcement agents, and for the manufacture of safety glass, etc. Vinyl acetate reacts with ethanol and bromine to produce bromoacetaldehyde diethyl acetal. This is an intermediate for the drug methimazole.
2. Common intermediates used in the production of polyvinyl alcohol, coatings, adhesives, etc.
3. Used in organic synthesis for resin fiber synthesis, and also used as an intermediate and adhesive for oil depressants and thickeners