nigel: has an entire labfull of fancy chem equipment also nigel: doesnt have a fucking *spoon*
@nilnileerАй бұрын
this video is old. back then he didn't have spoons ig
@jeffbrownstain7 жыл бұрын
"Oh yeah, I didn't have a spoon lying around anywhere, but I totally have broken plungers for days."
@kshitijnanda10488 жыл бұрын
I wanted thank you, your videos have really helped me in my practical exams.
@NileRed8 жыл бұрын
No problem!
@aaronfish14472 жыл бұрын
U mean meth makin
@You.are.correct.however Жыл бұрын
@@NileRed op
@clarsach292 жыл бұрын
I've always found it interesting that you can make minor modifications to aromatic, fragrant compounds and completely change their aroma such as is done here.....even more interesting is the way that isomerism and particularly chirality can make huge changes as with chiral isomers of carvone which can either smell like spearmint or caraway depending on their L or D form.
@patricklastname67442 жыл бұрын
My favorite example of the huge changes that come about due to isomerism is the racemates levomethorphan and dextromethorphan. Levomethorphan is a potent opiod, several times more potent than morphine. Dextromethorphan, though? No opiod activity, it’s actually the active ingredient in the over-the-counter cough syrup Robitussin. I think it’s quite incredible, honestly. The left-handed isomer could kill you with a couple dozen milligrams, and the right-handed one is sold every day for maybe 20 bucks per gram. Chemistry can be wild.
@jhyland872 жыл бұрын
My favorite is mono-nitrotoluene to toluidine. It goes from a pleasant leather polish scent to horse manure or burning rubber. Lol
@LeonardGreenpaw8 жыл бұрын
I recommend a survivalist series, an apocalypse simulation where you get useful chemicals from common goods we can find while scavenging houses. TEACH US HOW TO DEFEND AGAINST THE ZOMBIES!
@th3thin98 жыл бұрын
Hey, thats pretty good!
@TheSupsnow8 жыл бұрын
Best idea so far
@LordSparkleBottom8 жыл бұрын
+Yentrilax you clearly don't like anything fun
@KatoffeLP8 жыл бұрын
wait did you just told him to kill himself? wow just wow
@TheSupsnow8 жыл бұрын
Dolan Duck It's the internet, buddy, get over it
@MaxRay168 жыл бұрын
That 5 liter beaker made me laugh at the size of it when you picked it up. Didn't look that big in other shots and I wasn't thinking it would be that big
@Metallikite8 жыл бұрын
-What a tedious synthesis! :D Extractions are my favorite workup procedure, though. Well done as always! And I admire how you explicitly covered the mechanism.
@Mikemk_ Жыл бұрын
This is very not tedious as far as organic synthesis goes. It's just mix, leave for 8 hours, then purify.
@bradforddrake86335 жыл бұрын
Injecting steam from an independent source would be best.Acetaldehyde will boil away and benzaldehyde is far more steam volatile than cinnamaldehyde.You also could reflux for 5-6 hours and keep the condenser water at 30Celsius(not the usual ice cold water) as acetaldehyde boils around 20C and will exit out of the condenser top! LeChatlier idea is by removing acetaldehyde you drive the reverse aldol reaction to make more benzaldehyde!
@newgrounds908 жыл бұрын
ooh, that smooth 60fps footage. Patreon money well spent?
@sciencoking8 жыл бұрын
You said your beaker was 5 liters, but the sheer scale of that only became clear to me at 8:30. That is one massive beaker!
@mississippijohnfahey71755 жыл бұрын
I wish I only did chemistry with giant glassware. Then I'd look like a tiny man doing normal sized chemistry.
@kjpmi8 жыл бұрын
I don't know if you intend to be as humorous as you are but you have me cracking up through most of your videos. You have that kind of dry kind of witty humor that probably goes unnoticed by some people. I'm curious, what is the blue bottle experiment? And I would love to see a Q&A video, caffeine total synth, trimethylamine, and cyclohexanone oxime. So, I put my vote in for those next.
@programablenuance Жыл бұрын
Me coming to relax for a bit while studying for the MCAT just to see the retro-aldol reaction again
@plante19998 жыл бұрын
You could make benzaldehyde by toluene oxidation, or chlorination/hydrolysis. it gives the useful benzyl alcohol as a side product and some trichlorbenzene, which can be used for dehydration of compounds or be turned into benzoic acid to use as benzene precursor. Essentially turning toluene into 3 useful, less common chems in the lab
@Cupful2 жыл бұрын
thanks he has a video of that too but it's private fucking sod payed to be a Patreon for private videos. what a rip off
@chadkline4268 Жыл бұрын
Yes, I know the manganese method, but I wonder if ozone would work 😁
@TheBladeOfTheHero8 жыл бұрын
Do you think you'd be able to make Formaldehyde, or is that too dangerous to try?
@blackbeast92682 жыл бұрын
Teaching people how to make a P2P precursor from spices. This is why old youtube was awesome ! Fuck censorship
@xij3505 Жыл бұрын
What exactly is p2p😅
@pakodelavega Жыл бұрын
@@xij3505 phenyl-2-propanone
@Wishbone1977 Жыл бұрын
This gave me flashbacks to a chemistry class some 30 years ago. We were tasked with producing benzoic acid, and were divided into 6 lab groups. I don't recall what chemical was the starting point, but I do remember that the reaction involved boiling a solution, and that the chemical transitioned through benzaldehyde on its way to benzoic acid. So we were in a fairly small chemistry lab with six flasks of boiling benzaldehyde (almond essence), and well, let's just say the air got a little... dense. I don't think any of us craved marzipan for a while after that 😀
@jayzona98 жыл бұрын
Nile, you should do a lab/setup tour, that would be really neat
@sandokannoname57388 жыл бұрын
The Simple Distillation set up is perfect
@Silentspeaker38 жыл бұрын
Could you have used DCM to remove the fine suspension of oil from the distillate, somewhat like you did in another video?
@MinecraftModtester18 жыл бұрын
Can you please make Formaldehyde?
@BAgodmode3 жыл бұрын
That’s just a dehyde with a fancy hat and monocle
@GNP3WP3W3 жыл бұрын
Dehydration of ethanol to ethene, followed by oxidative cleavage of the double bond to 2 equivalents of formaldehyde
@jhyland873 жыл бұрын
Or just buy it from Walmart, it's called Campa-Chem. Not very pure, but it seems to work for a lot of home chemistry stuff.
@BAgodmode3 жыл бұрын
@@jhyland87 exactly, taste just as good to me.
@dumbassdemonfoxmk2 Жыл бұрын
@@BAgodmode lmaoooo
@dimaminiailo37233 жыл бұрын
I think using a Dean-Stark trap for steam distillation is a better idea than distilling four liters of water. Why didn't you use distilled water from the receiver to replenish the level in the flask?
@JustinKoenigSilica8 жыл бұрын
reflux is just distillation without boiling something away? so, in essence, just the phase change from liquid-gas back to liquid produces the Benzaldehyde?
@tangentfox4677 Жыл бұрын
It's been a long time since I watched an old NileRed video. "I didn't use organic solvents to be environmentally friendly." from the man who makes his FAVORITE CARCINOGEN.
@ChristianGeske-yn3mr5 жыл бұрын
I could have sworn you had a video synthesizing safrole
@cvspvr3 жыл бұрын
i don't think he did. i think he had another video about synthesising benzaldehyde using chromyl chloride though
@kensclark8 жыл бұрын
How much does all this distillation equipment cost? I have a lot of glassware, a butane burner, crucible, etc, but I'm thinking about buying a distillation setup. The only chemicals I really have is some semi-pure sodium acetate I made a few years ago, sodium bisulfate, acetone, and a few other things. I'm thinking about getting into more complex reactions since I understand safety, how to handle acids and very alkaline materials, and I know a bit about chemistry (although I am mainly a computer science person).
@dalitas8 жыл бұрын
nurdrage has a link in his recent videos to a glassware supplier that has pricing info and there's also a discount code in the description hope that'll give you an idea about pricing, then there's always eBay but then you have to be careful to get the real deal
@kensclark8 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I'm thinking about inorganic chemistry as a minor. I just love to explore chemical reactions. I'm majoring in Computer science though. Maybe I could make some cool apps to help with chemistry.
@dalitas8 жыл бұрын
There are some apps that are quite good but others that just suck so do try them out and see if you can improve! A NMR and IR identification app would be awesome
@EarlofDestruction8 жыл бұрын
I have lots of cheap made in China glassware bought on ebay, it works fine for me, have broken only one flask until now.
@Fred-bp2dd2 жыл бұрын
Vevor has a really good deal on a 32 piece glassware set for 104$
@kerryabear Жыл бұрын
I miss these longer videos he use to make.
@Conorize Жыл бұрын
I think his videos are longest nowadays actually. Latest video was something like 47 minutes
@fukro7557 Жыл бұрын
You know this video is like 5 years old right
@Patrick9991028 жыл бұрын
Really looking forward to the Caffeine synthesis. Alkaloids are awesome.
@FredGandt8 жыл бұрын
A couple of connected suggestions I (and suspect many others) would like to see: _1)_ Nicotine from raw Nicotiana leaves (if possible). _2)_ Nicotine from cured tobacco. Please :-) Preferably methods possible without complex, high end lab equipment.
@billsmathers77878 жыл бұрын
What did the cinnamon oil smell like? Did it smell like cinnamon candy, or was it closer to cloves? Cinnamon leaf oil is actually mostly eugenol, and so if what you had was leaf oil, it would have had a strong clove aroma.
@NileRed8 жыл бұрын
To me it just smelled like cinnamon candy
@ashtoncallender40688 жыл бұрын
I have one question because I have been clueless. I recently tried recrystallizing some KNO3 I bought online to try and grow some beautiful nitrate crystals, and after some time of boiling there was some left undissolved. I believe this was not KNO3 and had a much darker color like wet sand. I had originally tried dissolving it in smaller batches in a beaker, but it would start making this loud noise and shaking. I think it may be what is called "Bumping", but I've never heard anyone explain what it is except that boiling chips are used to prevent it. If you could I would really appreciate you opinion on the matter and just wanted to say keep up the amazing videos!
@sbreheny8 жыл бұрын
Bumping is caused by pockets of solution being superheated (above the boiling point) because there aren't enough bubble nucleation sites where the pocket is. Eventually a bubble will form and it will grow huge very quickly because of the high vapor pressure of the fluid being greater than atmospheric pressure pressing down on the solution. The bubble grows so quickly that it makes a mini explosion that often throws liquid out of the container. Boiling chips provide a surface with lots of irregularities so bubbles form all the time and they can grow before the solution gets superheated. That way they grow slowly, extract heat during the phase change from liquid to gas, and then rise to the surface gently and release the gas and the heat along with it.
@brettreiff7 жыл бұрын
Ashton Callender some potassium nitrate scores contain small amounts of sand as an I purity. I have performed that exact same expirement growing kno3 crystals. except I used stump remover and recrystalize it 1st, filtered it hot and let the crystals fall out. I did that with the whole batch. I then dried it out and stored it to use as needed to grow crystals and poor man's aqua reiga, etc. but that happens. I beleave it can be mined or made. depending on the score it may have slight contaminants.
@abdellahaljahid67178 жыл бұрын
Hello Nile Red , nice video.
@spikeball11718 жыл бұрын
NileRed you should link videos to other experiments that involve the reagents that are used in this video and so-on. :)
@michaelf70937 жыл бұрын
Any thoughts on how one might recover the acetaldehyde, as well?
@kevinbyrne45388 жыл бұрын
Since the reaction depends on the presence of hydroxide (OH-) ions, wouldn't it be better to use NaOH instead of Na2CO3 ?
@jeremymcadams77433 жыл бұрын
NaCO3 generates small concentrations of OH. Using something like NaOH would probably drive the reaction to the left. Sorta like allylic bromination. A little bromine leads to radical addition, a lot leads to bromination of the double bond
@TheMeilinger8 жыл бұрын
what's the advantage of using ammoniumpersulfate over PCC for the oxidation?
@timcole44548 жыл бұрын
you should of steam distilled some cinnamon bark previously and so hopefully you would have had some higher quality oil to work with and hence get a better yield of benzaldehyde :)
@nilsh.84272 ай бұрын
Have you tried to distill acetic aldehyde during the reaction to shift the equilibrium to the products?
@aribinu8910 Жыл бұрын
Separating benzaldehyde, cinnamaldehyde and acetaldehyde is so challenging because they all are liquid
@Aperson-sv2hc8 жыл бұрын
I think that the Distinct change in smell from the beginning to the end is (expecting some scientific explanation) Pretty cool. (Oh, ok... Thought he was gonna geek out or something for a little bit :)
@jasonsummit1885 Жыл бұрын
Isn't acetaldehyde the chemical made in the liver from alcohol that causes the feeling of a hangover?
@sebastianalmanza47567 жыл бұрын
I just want to imagine what it must've been like buying a 5-liter beaker.
@BackYardScience20005 жыл бұрын
You hope and pray that it doesn't come in broken. Then you wonder why you bought it when you may only use it a handful of times.
@cgarzs8 жыл бұрын
Isn't Acetaldehyde the hangover chemical?
@elephystry7 жыл бұрын
cgarzs Yes.
@Ljokerz Жыл бұрын
this guy will be the next Breaking bad show
@goomagames10 ай бұрын
I just figured out that I have a cinnamaldehyde allergy, and I was wondering - does the cooking of it break it down and make it so different that I wouldn't be allergic? Like... the cinnamaldehyde content in tomatoes. When I eat raw tomatoes, my face flushes burning red. Cooked tomatoes, much less of a reaction. Is this my imagination? Or true?
@alharthy508 жыл бұрын
Just a curious question: how does the stirring pill works exactly?
@NileRed8 жыл бұрын
There is a spinning magnet in the plate below!
@alharthy508 жыл бұрын
NileRed thanks. Awesome video as always, keep them coming.
@alharthy508 жыл бұрын
***** thanks man
@bok..8 жыл бұрын
like a mexican jumping bean
@rollaroundaparty8 жыл бұрын
What happened to 1-Octan-3-ol?
@batubulgur8 жыл бұрын
he is probably too afraid to have a mosquito swarm in his lab. hahahahhaha
@rollaroundaparty8 жыл бұрын
Batuhan Bulguroğlu But it's for the sake of science ):
@NileRed8 жыл бұрын
It will be posted next
@rollaroundaparty8 жыл бұрын
OOOOOOOH THE LORD HATH SPOKEN
@rollaroundaparty8 жыл бұрын
Have you thought about synthesising humans? I hear they're a mosquito attractant also
@chanheosican66362 жыл бұрын
Would Potassium carbonate work better since it is a stronger base?
@sithummonchat6 жыл бұрын
Is the resulting benzaldehyde good grade? How can I make pure food grade benzaldehyde for cooking?
@12andres248 жыл бұрын
+NileRed Cool video! In the first step of the mechanism why does the hydroxide ion do a conjugate addition instead of attack the carbonyl directly? I though hard nucleophiles such as hydroxide prefer 1,2 over 1,4 additions.
@danarchy723 Жыл бұрын
So... Would yo have a higher yield of benzaldehyde from the oil of the leaf or bark of cinnamon oil? You kinda confused me at the end there. From what I got from it was that if you used the cinnamon oil from the leaf that has %10 you would get a better yield. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
@darkeagle5538 жыл бұрын
What kind of grease do you use for your joints Nile ?
@kjpmi8 жыл бұрын
I'll tell you what's amazing and what I use. Dow's High Vacuum Grease. It's silicone grease. It REALLY holds up well under high vacuum because of its low volatility. It keeps its normal viscosity at very low and very high temps -40 C up to over 200 C. It's pretty chemical resistant as well obviously so you don't have to worry about it being attacked or dripping into your flask and messing with a reaction. I can tell you that I never have a problem with losing vacuum even over a course of a very long distillation or reaction. I also use it to seal up my vacuum desiccator and it will hold a vacuum steady for longer than I've ever tested. r.ebay.com/Fr3a0b
@darkeagle5538 жыл бұрын
kjpmi Thanks kjpmi really helpt me out.
@aajjeee8 жыл бұрын
+kjpmi you sound like an info Comercial
@kjpmi8 жыл бұрын
aajjeee I like it, so sue me... it works so much better than vaseline or anything else I've used.
@kjpmi8 жыл бұрын
Philip Mastny you're welcome. It's not super cheap like vaseline but a tube last for a long time and it really works so much better.
@warrengreen4198 Жыл бұрын
It's called a centrifuge, on the fist go around.
@maggiep90076 жыл бұрын
What happened to your plunger?
@DibIrken3 жыл бұрын
I went from the skatole video to this. KZbin is trying to.....cleanse the palette, I guess. 🤷♀️
@turolretar Жыл бұрын
If Gene Takovic was in breaking bad:
@MrBXXIV8 жыл бұрын
can you start from cinnamon bark and extract the oil from it?
@SeaUrchinZone8 жыл бұрын
Yes, you could do a steam distillation to get the cinnamaldehyde out of the cinnamon, but that takes an awful lot of time and the yield is relatively small. It smells great though.
@batubulgur8 жыл бұрын
You have to be a big big manufacturer to be able to extract significant amounts of essential oil. In home lab type of enviroment you probably need 5-10 kg's of bark.
@MrBXXIV8 жыл бұрын
Undead Gaddafi I love how you ended it with the "good smell" comment although you just illustrated how long and cumbersome is the process. you are a cup-half-full type :)
@MrBXXIV8 жыл бұрын
Batuhan Bulguroğlu I didn't realize how much bark would be required to do it. Just wow.
@SeaUrchinZone8 жыл бұрын
Ibrahim Ali Haha yeah, I did it myself once, the whole process was annoying, but all the glassware smelled like cinnamon for weeks.
@JonathanR19946 жыл бұрын
What if you dripped the oil to the boiling water instead at a rate that eventually matches your distillate rate?
@sgustok-jk3pj5nz7j2 ай бұрын
Benzaldehyde , nitroetane 1F2NP amphetamine
@wyattbernhard5855 Жыл бұрын
Yo bro I heard you like carbon bonds... So I carboned you're carbon with, you guessed it you have more carbon lol
@homesynthesis4 жыл бұрын
RIP chemplayer :((((((((
@rensnijman581 Жыл бұрын
Next video will be: making chocolate from a stone
@abdellahaljahid67178 жыл бұрын
Hello everybody I would like to know if it is possible to synthesize (Bu4N+•HSO3−) from TBAB.
@phantomzone25713 жыл бұрын
1) when you make a solution, put the salt in the liquid, not the liquid on the salt: you aren't cooking a pizza. 2) in cinnamon oil there are also cinnamic acid, got by oxidation of cinnamaldehyde, alkilpolyphenols. The pH is alkaline by Na2CO3 so some reactions start expecially when you heat the solution: reaction of Cannizzaro between aldehydes, production of phenols and polyphenols by OH- attack on aromatic ring, genesis of acid and aldehyde by interaction between CO2 (gained by thermal decomposition of Na2CO3) and phenols or polyphenols. 3) if you obtain acetaldehyde, under these conditions goes on aldolic condensation reaction leading to very coniugated systems. 4) phenols are present like phenates and then easily oxidated in alkaline pH; they and coniugated system are yellow as your product.
@Ottmar5558 жыл бұрын
Can you link to the ChemPlayer video? Also rip in peaces ChemPlayer :(
@batubulgur8 жыл бұрын
I am gonna miss them. Their concept was ingenious.
@NileRed8 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, I forgot. Ill do that
@FestiCatcher Жыл бұрын
Let’s see if this one will get me to bed
@Skittlez124568 жыл бұрын
I'm here waiting for the Nitrous Oxide video.....
@sophietaylor97538 жыл бұрын
would a fractionating column reduced the amount of oily water you collected during distillation?
@th3thin98 жыл бұрын
Actually, it should, thing is, you cant connect it because of the thermometer in the distillation apparatus
@dalitas8 жыл бұрын
+Nitro why couldn't the column be placed between the RBflask and the sideways adapter?
@th3thin98 жыл бұрын
Dalitas D Because you have to stick the thermometer somwhere, but you can always use 2 or more necked RBFlasks
@dalitas8 жыл бұрын
+Nitro wait what, the thermometer can be at the top of the column right or are we thinking about different set ups
@th3thin98 жыл бұрын
Dalitas D We probably are
@vacuumboy6.0 Жыл бұрын
I am going to have to get you a lab spoon, a chemist not having a lab spoon is akin to a mechanic not having a slot screw driver. 🤣
@1495978707 Жыл бұрын
3:04 The arrow in the second part going to the water should be going from the water, as the hydrogen is being taken from the water to change the double bond to a single bond. The next to last part is also backwards for the same reason and should be kicking off a hydroxyl ion. Unless I’m misunderstanding and you’re only drawing where electrons are going
@passionate_jj9 ай бұрын
KZbin poll recommend me this video 😅
@mattibboss8 жыл бұрын
no links down below... almond oil is benzylaldehyde???? i had bottle of it and it didn't smell like almond so i got rid of it -.-
@OsirusHandle8 жыл бұрын
Most smells are pretty horrid in large quantities; Skatole, for example, smells sweet like flowers until you smell large quantities, then it smells like literal shit.
@mattibboss8 жыл бұрын
+Hillebrand1 oh you got me there...i forgott that...thx i'll messure the PH if i find some again
@alishinawi22803 жыл бұрын
why not using pure cinnamaldehyde u recovered at the end directly with water and sodium carbonate
@nivmoshe55368 жыл бұрын
where are you getting your distilled water? are you distil it your self?
@NileRed8 жыл бұрын
I just buy it from the grocery store
@poisonspiders23008 жыл бұрын
but... does it smell good?
@oppotato54408 жыл бұрын
Do a lab tour
@JamellCortedano8 жыл бұрын
Hey, Nile Red, sorry for the unrelated question on the video, but did you remove your mercury fulminate video? P.S.the videos look a lot better in 60 FPS.
@BackYardScience20005 жыл бұрын
I think KZbin removed it.
@windowsme133011 күн бұрын
So I can turn styrofoam cups into almond extract
@anikettamak8341 Жыл бұрын
very nice
@th3thin98 жыл бұрын
Man, Nile, take care of your equipment! That broken beaker at 9:10 made me cringe so hard!
@LordSparkleBottom8 жыл бұрын
+Yentrilax 👌🏻
@NileRed8 жыл бұрын
It still works, so why throw it out? I fixed it with a blowtorch and it has been working well! I do have other 1L beakers though that aren't broken
@th3thin98 жыл бұрын
NileRed The problem is that its broken, not that youre, using it. Besides that, fixed it with a blowtorch? What kind of sorcery is that? Did you just smooth the edges with the blowtorch?
@th3thin98 жыл бұрын
***** I watched the chloroform video when it came out, which means, a long time ago. I didnt remember the "hole". Ill give it another watch.
@blakraven78953 жыл бұрын
what is this used for ???
@Robert-vp6xf8 жыл бұрын
wouldnt it be easier to centerfuge it?
@ghosttoast83268 жыл бұрын
How do you get the perfect black background?
@NileRed8 жыл бұрын
It's not always perfect, but it has to do with lighting! It would be a lot better if I got a darker and better backdrop
@AlChemicalLife8 жыл бұрын
new camera again ? 60p doent run well on my laptop :(
@batubulgur8 жыл бұрын
There probably is an issue about your laptops playback capabilities. All the settings works just fine on my. Be sure to have adobe flash's final version on your pc.
@LarsVeldscholte8 жыл бұрын
Flash? KZbin has been using HTML5 video for ages now (unless you have an ancient browser, in which case it still serves Flash)
@batubulgur8 жыл бұрын
My bad. Brain is on auto-pilot. Ok, gotta admit that was humiliating. :D
@THR33STEP Жыл бұрын
What are these products used for?
@hello-rq8kf Жыл бұрын
making meth unironically
@MrNudnick8 жыл бұрын
what is the name of the degree that you currently have (or the one that you are working on) because i watch every single one of your videos because this stuff just fascinates me and i would love to work with chemistry in the future and get a degree with it. Are alot of your videos and reactions based on organic chemistry or is all of this just like general chemistry. I would really appreciate if you could reply/pm me.
@a3xccy3798 жыл бұрын
I dont know nile's qualifications. But im in the 3rd year of my bachleor course of chemistry. we dont do everything Nile does( because he is a pro and awesome) but if you do Masters in Chemistry and go into research you will for sure work on your own
@NileRed8 жыл бұрын
I have a BSc in Biochemistry and about 7 months of research as a chemistry grad student. Most of the what I do is organic chemistry, but there is some inorganic and general chemistry sprinkled in.
@aribinu89103 ай бұрын
Why dont you purify cinnamaldehyde too, it's a valuable starting material for various drugs and other chemicals, whereas the major component of the essens oil is cinnamaldehyde, if you want to get benzaldehyde just try to almond oil
@luism.17328 жыл бұрын
Cinnamaldehyde is such a nice chemical :D
@walterbunn2808 жыл бұрын
Mmmmm...... I would guess that your yield is low. I would think that you're losing product to a competing SN1 reaction where benzaldehyde reacts with any of the other things in the single pot (water and cinnamaldehyde main but nearly everything in that flask can react...). If you increase the temperature above the boiling point of benzaldehyde in the main reaction vessel you could remove it before it had a chance to react with other things. Maybe add a fractional distillation rig to allow the benzaldehyde to "hide" from the other products/reactants. Finally, you should chill your product before trying to separate it. You can actually purify the benzaldehyde out from the cinnamaldehyde and water based solely on their freezing points, but it is slower. Still simply chilling the solution would reduce some other things that were obviously a problem. I think you were getting that cloudy color because your were getting hemiacetal formation.
@woongbinkang8 ай бұрын
So.. we can turn polystyrene to cinnamaldehyde then to benzaldehyde? 😂
@fi892988 жыл бұрын
It looks like chinsee soup flavouring oil :D
@davidsferrazzo3 жыл бұрын
Can you make a chemical for me to not feel depressed
@NoahKainWhittington8 жыл бұрын
When will you be releasing your video on making Benzaldehyde from Bitter almond oil? I would be willing to think that is the easiest method and I just can't wait any longer for the video to be released! :P
@navidahmed16 жыл бұрын
Please revisit this video. ^_^
@ariel_haymarket8 жыл бұрын
holy 720p60fps club, batman.
@slimesquad81075 жыл бұрын
Again why the distilled water and Na2C03??? Can one use lye? Or MGS04? Lr KOH???? U add water woth drying agent to remove water? With sep funnel? Is this correct
@GreenOrgyKing4 жыл бұрын
I think Na2CO3 was used because the reaction must stay between ~Ph 11 - 13 for maximizing the desired product. Na2CO3 is a weaker base and has some additional pluses: low solubility in water would prevent over concentration and thus going above Ph14. Also for one pot steam distillations having a salt saturated water source for the steam helps for many reasons. BUT, i wouldn't be surprised if the low yield was also caused by the choice of base. Maybe just a pinch of a hydroxide would have made all of the difference?
@thesilentsoldier88018 жыл бұрын
Correction: Basking Soda is Sodium Bicarbonate. You want "Washing Soda/Powder". Sodium Carbonate :) Available cheap by Arm & Hammer at any store.
@lowestcommonDenomanator7 жыл бұрын
The Silent Soldier you can make sodium carbonate from sodium bicarbonate via heat reduction/put in your oven