EXHIBIT 24(b)

                                SOLUTIA INC.

                                CERTIFICATE


         I, Karen L. Knopf, Assistant Secretary of Solutia Inc. (the
"Company"), hereby certify that the following is a full, true and correct
copy of a resolution adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company on
February 26, 2003, at which meeting a quorum was present and acting
throughout:


         FURTHER RESOLVED, that each officer and director who may be
         required to sign and execute the Annual Report on Form 10-K or any
         document in connection therewith (whether for and on behalf of the
         Company, or as an officer or director of the Company, or
         otherwise), be and hereby is authorized to execute a power of
         attorney appointing Jeffry N. Quinn, Karen L. Knopf and Mary B.
         Cody or any of them acting alone, his or her true and lawful
         attorney or attorneys to sign in his or her name, place and stead
         in any such capacity such Annual Report on Form 10-K and any and
         all amendments thereto and documents in connection therewith, and
         to file the same with the Commission or any other governmental
         body, each of said attorneys to have power to act with or without
         the others, and to have full power and authority to do and perform,
         in the name and on behalf of each of said officers and directors,
         every act whatsoever which such attorneys, or any one of them, may
         deem necessary, appropriate or desirable to be done in connection
         therewith as fully and to all intents and purposes as such officers
         or directors might or could do in person.


         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand in my official
capacity and affixed the corporate seal of the Company this 28th day of
February, 2003.



                                            /s/ Karen L. Knopf
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                                            Karen L. Knopf
                                            Assistant Secretary


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