In most recipes for such acylations under Schotten Baumann conditions NaOH is used in excess. On further stirring the NaOH excess hydrolyzes the acryloyl chloride to acrylic acid which move into the water phase whereas the product goes in the organic phase. A catalysts like imidazol, DMAP or triethylamine facilitates the reaction under Schotten Baumann condition but is not absolutely necessary. Often dichloromethan is a better solvent for this reaction than toluene.

In most recipes for such acylations under Schotten Baumann conditions NaOH is used in excess. On further stirring the NaOH excess hydrolyzes the acryloyl chloride to acrylic acid which move into the water phase whereas the product goes in the organic phase. A catalysts like imidazol, DMAP or triethylamine facilitates the reaction under Schotten Baumann condition but is not absolutely necessary. Often dichloromethan is a better solvent for this reaction than toluene.

normally I would add triethylamine as this will form the HCL salt upon reaction. this will then also act as a driving force for your reaction. 

Not sure if this works in toluene (solubility of the Et3N.HCl salt) as I normally use chloroform. Dichloromethane you have to be carefull to use that one as it can easily form radicals and set off preliminary reaction of your product.

Hi

Please, find in attach a paper describe a work involved preparation of new substituted and unsubstituted and poly imides using reaction of acryloyl chloride with different amides (aliphatic,aromatic) in the presence of a suitable solvent and amount tri ethyl amine (Et3N) with heating – the structure confirmation of all polymers were proved using FT-IR,1HNMR,C13NMR and UV spectroscopy ,thermal analysis (TG) for some polymers

confirmed their thermal stabilities . Other physical properties including softening and

melting points, PH and solubility of the polymers were also measured.

Try with alcoholic solution of NaOH.