23.11.2018
Chemically speaking, it is merely one step from plastics made out of polymethacrylate (PMA) to Perspex, i.e. polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), production of which began at Röhm & Haas AG in 1928 (Hölscher 1972, 121). In contrast to acrylic acid, methacrylic acid has a methyl group (CH3) and/or is derived ...