Making nylon plastic

2017-08-02

[public] 757K views, 18.4K likes, 272 dislikes audio only

In this video, I'll be making nylon 6,6 again, but I will be doing it the "industrial" way.

Instead of turning the adipic acid first into adipoyl chloride, I react it directly with hexamethylene diamine to make a nylon 6,6 salt. Then using heat, I force the salt to polymerize.

References:

• Nylon 6,6 video: /youtube/video/HTh_5CWMSoQ

• Adipic acid prep: /youtube/video/O0LqwYTSir4

• Link to paper with mechanism: https://goo.gl/p1bUEu

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