Synthesis of Nylon

[Luthfi894]

hah....

d'scul cma da bacot tpi liat d'you tube tak palah

[BeeDootube]

cool ...my teacher always talks about this experiment...but this is the first time I see it...It's coolest than my teacher talking.

[animal560]

looks like snott

[IndiePharm]

Yeah, now I can make my own plastic bags for groceries!

[grndmstrjoe]

we did this in our final lab for organic chemistry.....by far my favorite chem lab ever done :)

[jeroen2006]

Actually it is really a shame that I know the reaction. Because this would else look like true magic.

[douro20]

It is called an interfacial polycondensation reaction.

[DBGokussj3]

anyway i prefer cotton ;]

[Alkoholtest]

I understand the theory behind hexanediamine and decandiachloride and that it reacts in the boundary between Water and Hexan - but why does it have to be aquious Sodiumhydroxide and not just water?

[haubsen]

da entsteht HCl bei der amidbildung. R-NH2 + Cl-CO-R' gibt R-NH-CO-R' +HCl

das fängst du mit NaOH ab zu wasser und kochsalz. außerdem erhöhst du die nucleophilie des amids vielleicht noch nen bisschen, wenn du es gleich deprotonierst und das dadurch schneller ans säurechlorid addieren kann.

hexan ist da gar nicht drin so wie ich das verstande habe.

[pengie32]

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[PeterCarneades]

I can't purchase ClCO(CH2)4COCl. Did you prepair this by yourself?

Some book said that HOOC(CH2)4COOH can also be used in this experiment. I did as it said, but no reaction at all.

[paopaomanalansan]

@PeterCarneades  the acid chloride is more reactive than carboxylic acid...maybe the book instructed to use some catalyst..??

[PeterCarneades]

@paopaomanalansan No, not at all. It just indicated with a photo that this was feasible. But now with Polymer Chemistry courses taken, I can confirm that it was impossible. Interphase polymerization can only occur with acid chloride. :-)

[paopaomanalansan]

@PeterCarneades Is an anhydride reactive enough for acylation reactions?

[Savatage0087]

I did this in the first year of my study. It's a quite cool experiment! Indeed you should handle the chemicals with care..

[Abercr0mbie4life]

That sabacoyl chloride, always up to some shananagin.

[bmcm10]

what a boring job to talk about that crap! LOL

[kawana87]

@bmcm10 I can see how it must seem boring to you? All those big words they use, and you having to pause every few seconds to look them up.

[cisar18]

it's amaizing.....could u send me the video it could come in handy... i needed for a work of chemistry.... thanks for your attencion

[robglobetrotter]

amazing

[denelson83]

Actually, according to Wikipedia, those two chemicals are quite toxic.

[sakuranohana1523]

yes they are silly me a grade 10 student mixed these diminohexane and sebacoyl chloride together as two raw chemicals .. supposedly the fumes that were produced could of seriously injured someone - thank gosh we did it in the fume cabinet.

[c0kement0s]

Very cool and this is a synthetic organic chemist watching!

[sakuranohana1523]

would you know a safe precedure to make this synthesis by subsituting sebacoyl chloride for adipoyl chloride and doing the same procedure to form nylon 6,6 ?

[craynerd]

Amazing....are these two chemicals available from most suppliers and reasonably safe to use. i`m talking about suitablity for a school demo

[4524352353]

awesome

[iv81]

wow

[hypergoth]

hehe, cool