Lemme give you an example text ... of the process.
Under an inert atmosphere a mixture of 306 mL of acrylic acid, 600 mL of deionised water, 1.27 g potassium persulfate, 17.90 g of itaconic acid and 44 mL of isopropanol was added continuously over a period of 2 h at 95° C. to a stirred solution of 1.27 g of potassium persulfate in 190 mL of water. The reaction mixture was kept under reflux for an additional 2 h to complete the reaction before 450 mL of water were removed under reduced pressure. The resulting polyacid was found to have mean molecular weights, Mw of 120000 g/mol and Mn of 180…