Research Article

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

Figure 2

1H correlation spectra of PHA (a) at pH 2 and (b) at pH 10. The axes, and , represent the two frequency coordinates in chemical shifts (ppm).
(a) Correlation spectrum of PHA at pH 2
(b) Correlation spectrum of PHA at pH 10