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C H A R T E R S are currently being written about the process of cyanoethylation. I t is a story about research that began years ago. The men who are writing it are meeting the challenge of the countless derivatives that may be obtained when almost any material containing a labile hydrogen i s reacted with acrylonitrile. Lignin, for example, with its phenolic hydrogen and other reactive centers, is susceptible to cyanoethylation. But the question of what properties might now be developed from the altered molecular structure containing a reactive nitrile group opens a broad new field of experimentation and study.
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Some day the answers to thousands of questions like these will be known. Perhaps the reaction of acrylonitrile with some of your materials will result in new and interesting products. if your company would like to experiment with acryUmitrik, you are invited to write on your letterhead to Monsanto, the Monomer Headquarters of America, for laboratorysize samples. Address Monsanto Ovemual Company, Plastics Division, Dept.CElO, Springfield 2, Mass.
Nothing contained herein shall be construed as a recommendation to produce or a»e any product in conflict with existing patents. SERVING INDUSTRY...WHICH SERVES MANKIND
