Example 1
ACS grade glycerol (>99.5% purity) and ACS grade acetic anhydride (>97%) were purchased from Fisher Scientific. Amberlyst 15-Acidic catalytic resin was purchased from Dow Chemical. Methacrylic acid (99%), methacrylic anhydride (94%), and AIBN (98%) were purchased from Sigma Aldrich. All chemicals except AIBN were used as received. AIBN was recrystallized from methanol.