Adipoyl Synthesis Lab Report
In order to form a nylon-6,6 polymer, the synthesis of two monomers, acyl chloride and 1,6-hexanediamine, is needed. In this experiment, when adipoyl chloride is dissolved in hexanes with the aqueous diamine, the polymer is formed. The adipoyl chloride mixed with cyclohexane in beaker A is transferred slowly into beaker B, which contains the 1,6-hexanediamine and NaOH. The polymer is the formed at the top of the reaction mixture. Once the polymer is formed, a copper wire is used to remove the polymer from the mixture.
This type of reaction mechanism is a “step-growth” polymerization reaction, which means when the polymers form, they can combine with each other to increase the length of the polymer length. In the interfacial polymerization,
a thin film of nylon-6,6 polymer is formed at the interface containing both monomers of the reaction. This mechanism reaction has multiple steps that lead to the step-growth polymerization of the nylon-6, 6. To further analyze the polymer and both monomers, IR spectroscopy is performed. IR spectroscopy is used to determine which functional groups are in a molecule.^1 This infrared radiation (IR) makes the atoms in compounds vibrate at certain frequencies, which are present in specific functional groups of that molecule.^1 This is done when the IR spectrometer shoots a beam of IR radiation through a sample, in which the frequencies that are absorbed by the sample are shown on the IR spectrum.
This type of reaction mechanism is a “step-growth” polymerization reaction, which means when the polymers form, they can combine with each other to increase the length of the polymer length. In the interfacial polymerization,
a thin film of nylon-6,6 polymer is formed at the interface containing both monomers of the reaction. This mechanism reaction has multiple steps that lead to the step-growth polymerization of the nylon-6, 6. To further analyze the polymer and both monomers, IR spectroscopy is performed. IR spectroscopy is used to determine which functional groups are in a molecule.^1 This infrared radiation (IR) makes the atoms in compounds vibrate at certain frequencies, which are present in specific functional groups of that molecule.^1 This is done when the IR spectrometer shoots a beam of IR radiation through a sample, in which the frequencies that are absorbed by the sample are shown on the IR spectrum.