Acrylate

The feature a methyl and a nitrile in place of the H alpha to the carboxy functional group.

Yet another family of acrylate-related polymers are the polyacrylamides, especially the parent derived from acrylamide.

In addition to forming polymers, acrylate esters participate in other reactions relevant to organic chemistry.

The reaction with lower alcohols (methanol, ethanol) takes place at 100–120 °C with acidic heterogeneous catalysts (cation exchanger).

The reaction of higher alcohols (n-butanol, 2-ethylhexanol) is catalysed with sulfuric acid in homogeneous phase.

Structure of a generic polyacrylate. Polyacrylates are derived from acrylates but do not contain acrylate groups.
Structure of the backbone of a cyanoacrylate polymer.