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.
Nylon 6,6 video: https://youtu.be/HTh_5CWMSoQ
Adipic acid prep: https://youtu.be/O0LqwYTSir4
Link to paper with mechanism: https://goo.gl/p1bUEu
Nile talks about lab safety: https://youtu.be/ftACSEJ6DZA
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