Do you know an efficient procedure for polyvinyl alcohol esterification?

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Karthikumar Sankar

Dear Mikhail A Filatov,

If your interested in enzymatic synthesis of polyvinyl alcohol ester, you can try lipase mediated synthesis. Here, esterification reaction will take place even without any solvent/medium.

Adel Amer

Filatov

Please, see

Onyari, John Mmari; Huang, Samuel J., Synthesis and Properties of Novel Polyvinyl Alcohol-Lactic Acid Gels, JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE Volume: 113, 2053-2061, 2009

Good luck