In this paper authors summarized the living/controllable free radical polymerization methods of vinyl acetate (VAc). Vinyl acetate is an important monomer for producing polyvinyl acetate and polyvinyl alcohol. Traditional free radical polymerization methods such as solvent
emulsion
suspension and dispersion polymerization can be adopted for vinyl acetate polymerization and getting different molecular weight distribution.However
it’s difficult to get narrower molecular weight distribution for the high active radical of VAc.In recent years
living/ controllable free radical polymerization methods have been widely developed
and some of them have been successfully used for the VAc polymerization.In this article