Talk:Sebacoyl chloride
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Under "Uses" in the article on "sebacoyl chloride", it says:
"Sebacoyl Chloride in its pure form is a powder, it can be dissolved in water to produce a liquid solution. When in this fluid state Sebacoyl can be used to produce Nylon through a condensation reaction."
Sebacoyl chloride is a liquid, not a powder. It has a melting point of about -4 degrees C. Sebacoyl chloride reacts violently with water - rather than simply dissolving in it to form a solution. The reaction of sebacoyl chloride with water produces sebacic acid which, so far as this writer knows, is not used in the manufacture of nylon.
The writer of the article may have confused sebacoyl chloride with hexamethylenediamine (also called 1,6-hexanediamine) which IS a solid and which CAN be dissolved in water to form a true solution and which is used with sebacoyl chloride in the manufacture of nylon.
[edit] this chemical discription is wrong
I tried to edit the page so that the chamical formula would be correct, however the "bot" kept overridding me and claiming vandalism. But this still needs to be corrected.
-Baz
- Done.Voice-of-All 06:07, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
