What are Acrylic Acid and Acrylates? Acrylic acid is an unsaturated carboxylic acid composed of a vinyl group that is directly connected to a carboxylic acid terminus. The organic compound is a ...

Chemical and biotech firms are competing to meet one of the biggest challenges in biobased chemicals: an alternative to propylene-derived acrylic acid. The global market is worth billions of dollars, ...

Some of the largest chemical companies in the world—Arkema, BASF, Cargill, Dow, and LG Chemical among them—have attempted to make acrylic acid via a biobased route. It stands to reason that they would ...