Friday, May 29, 2020

VIDEO: THE POLYMERIZATION OF NYLON

Students:

This post gives an excellent demonstration, by a graduate student in college, of the polymerization of nylon.   Nylon can be formed out of various sub-units, such as:



In this demonstration, layering two different liquids allows a reaction to precipitate at the interface between the two fluids.  A peptide bond is formed similiar to what has been described for amino acid synthesis in lecture:




There is no assignment attached to this video, but watching this will give you better understanding of the course material concerning polymerization.

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