Cyclohexyl methacrylate (CHMA) Methacrylic acid ester 101–43–9 BASF Specialty Monomers Acrylic Monomers >> Reactive / Multifunctional (MFM) Methacrylic acid ester, for manufacturing polymers and for use as a feedstock for syntheses. Cyclohexylmethacrylate forms homopolymers and copolymers. Copolymers of Cyclohexylmethacrylate can be prepared with acrylic acid and its salts, amides and esters, and with methacrylates, acrylonitrile, maleic acid esters, vinyl acetate, vinyl chloride, vinylidene chloride, styrene, butadiene, unsaturated polyesters and drying oils, etc. Cyclohexylmethacrylate is also a very useful feedstock for chemical syntheses, because it readily undergoes addition reactions with a wide variety of organic and inorganic compounds. Methacrylic acid ester.