As part of a program directed at the synthesis of new polymerizable compounds, we investigated the methods of formation and chemistry of N-(alkoxymethy1)-acrylamides. Although N-alkoxymethyl derivatives of amides of saturated fatty acids are known,'the derivatives of acrylamide were unknown at the time we started our investigations. When our work was well under way it came to our attention, however, that a patent2 disclosed ...
