Intramolecular Lactonization of Poly(α-hydroxyacrylic acid): Kinetics and Reaction Mechanism

Table 3

The correlation of the kinetic model to the measured values of the reaction conversion at pH 1–9.

pH	Model correlation
1	99.4
2	98.4
3	99.7
4	98.6
4.5	97.2
5	97.0
6	93.9
7	65.2
8	−1.1
9	69.9