Making sunscreen from scratch
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2016
- This is a reupload because the previous video was stuck in 360p for some reason.
We are making some dibenzalacetone, which is a commonly used sunscreen ingredient. It is very good at absorbing UV light, so it's good at protecting us from the mean sun.
The next video will be the 4th in the aspirin/paracetamol series.
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I’ve found your videos and they’re incredible interesting but also they’re amazing to fall asleep to. I swear that’s a compliment 😂
I'm glad I'm not the only one!!
I do the same thing! Calm voice and still entertaining enough to watch
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Hobby chemistry in a nutshell:
"This synthesis uses A, B, C, D and E. The first four can be easily bought, but E needs to be distilled from F and G. F can be bought but G can be made by reacting H with..."
Awesome to see you work through all these prerequisites throughout various videos though.
then there's J, which can be bought, but doing so will put your name on a list at the DEA and FBI.
@@kadergumus2598 Now you need a different A, B, and C. A and B are about 50 cigarettes each, but C can only be purchased with stamps, so you need to synthesize D to sell for stamps. To get D, you can either have a guard smuggle it in, synthesize it with B, E, and F, or recruit some fellow inmates to acquire it from some other inmates. YMMV though; my yields have not been great.
It all comes back to benzene
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That's what makes it so fun! lol. I started amateur organic chemistry as a hobby, and I'm pretty surprised at how many of the "restricted" chemicals can easily be made from the non-restricted chemicals with the proper safety setup and procedure.
Having lower yield than expected due to multiple recrystalizations is kind of a running theme in your videos, I love it
That's actually a pretty common problem with chemistry.
You always get a lower yield when you want very pure products.
@George I. Klapsides I'm no chemistry expert myself but I think it's something to do with removing contaminations
@@bowel_movement nile red has a whole video about recrystallizations. And your correct
If you consider the 85% expected yield, times two recrystallizations…
100x.85=.85 first pass
.85x.85=.72 second pass
So a theoretical 72% compared to the 70% actual is negligible.
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I love how he's not affraid to say when something doesnt goes as planned, and also the fact that he will keep trying until he get the results he want while also showing previous fails. I dont even love chem that much but he makes it so interesting that i keep on watching more and more of his content
I have no idea what's going on in any of these videos, but seeing the little tornados bounce around in the beakers always makes me happy.
i thought that was just me! it reminds me of those little dancing fruits
The little tornados were 2x trans running after a cis apparently...
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@@bbrixnnx The little dancing fruits were 2x trans chasing a cis..
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Spf 3 is no small feat. You made sunscreen from scratch in a home lab, all by yourself, and it actually worked.
Even black people like me are recommended to use a much higher spf than that
@@NyanyiC yeah, but considering most homemade "sunscreens" have an spf of 0 or worse, can worsen burns due to being comprised primarily of oils, I'd say that's pretty good.
Could’ve just used raspberry oil with that spf lmao
i mean... to put it into context, the skin of the average caucasian male has an innate SPF of 3 to 5
@@blubberdust what would a ginger be? -100? My sister and bro are ging, they both burn in the shade and she got a sun burn through tinted windows on a coach bus.
Wow, your videos are so much better now that I took an organic chemistry class. I actually understand what's going on! (mostly)
I wish I could take a class like that but since I'm not interested enough to take a class. I just learn from his videos..
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@@supercool1312 i just cant be bothered to pay for one
@@emmettbattle5728 I just straight up cant... should have shown I could do better in high school
I'm in esthetics school and this demo for how sunscreen works with the beads is perfect to help students understand how chemical sunscreen works in absorbing the UV light. Thank you for your awesome videos.
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Did you clean it yet?
You should make aluminium zirconium tetrachlohydrex, the main ingredient in anti-perspirant.
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Dibenzylidineacetone (DBA) is actually used to stabilize Palladium(0) in the form of Pd2dba3.CHCl3 which is useful for a number Palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions.
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Nerd
does anyone know why pd(oh)2/c might be a better catalyst than pd/c for carbonyl compounds such as esters and acids?
i'm assuming it might have something to do with h-bonding
And it forms a beautiful dark blue powder.
SPF 3 is a common absorption level for stuff like lip balm, so it’s not that bad
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I did this reaction in my organic chemistry lab class, and I used almost the same method you used in this video, although with some small variations.
Our benzaldehyde and ethanol was analytical grade, and we purified our acetone (technical grade) through distillation (to remove water contamination and other impurities). That could explain why you had that initial cloudiness in benzaldehyde, probably your benzaldehyde was not so pure. To recrystallize the product we used the first method you used, hot ethanol (in the right amount to dissolve all the product), then we added room temperature water (while ethanol was still hot) until complete cloudiness occurred and then we cooled down the solution in an ice bath.
Eventually we vacuum filtered the precipitate and dried it in the oven. My yield was 78,2% of raw product, 73,9% of target molecule (we analyzed it through GC-MS and UV-VIS). Not the best but I'm still and undergraduate so totally fine for me.
My guess is, as you already aknowledged in the video, that you used too much ethanol and much of the product was still in the liquid phase, though your yield was not bad at all.
I also did this reaction in orgo 2 lab :)
I don't remember what our yield was exactly, but I do recall our MP analysis showed that we had a higher percentage of trans,cis and cis,cis stereoisomers than the reaction might typically produce, though trans,trans was still the primary stereoisomer :)
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To avoid canizaro reaction , you can mix the aldehyde and acetone then add the base slowly, so base attacks the acetone which attacks the aldehyde
In my research lab, we usually have a designated hood with aluminum foil completely covering the window, and protective eye wear when using UV light. Make sure you be careful, because it can mess up your eyes really bad even when used for a short amount of time.
When I did the synthesis, it actually went nearly like the clock reaction you mentioned. I dont know why does it happen, but it is pretty cool. I add the acetone and then stirr, and suddenly a ton of stuff falls out of solution after like 60 seconds and the content goes from light yellow to brown-orange and looses transparecy. Really interesting.
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Convert PET to terephthatalic acid and ethylene glycol! It's a simple de-esterification but it would be interesting seeing how you would get the PET to react with it being an insoluble solid at room temperature
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When he was talking about the trans and cis stuff I wasn’t paying attention and thought it was a video about gender and stuff
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Dang, that's really cool! The demo at the end was really neat too.
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Thanks for the enlightening discussion of using water to help precipitate the product from ethanol. Much appreciated.
I've made this myself in our labs and it is a very fun exercise. It's fun watching this change colour when you keep it in the sun.
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The test with the uv light is so cool!
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Dibenzylacetone can also be used as an organic photosensitizer in certain photochemical transformations!
Great as usual. However, I did notice one error: the reaction you give for the synthesis should produce two water molecules, not one.
Also, since you said that crystallization needs to be slow in order to be effective, and your failed first attempt apparently took a while, what do you think about your second one producing much better results after just three minutes?
Some of the benzaldehyde tried to precipitate out when it came into contact with the bit of water in the ethanol. The molecules quickly re-arranged themselves and dissolved in the ethanol afterwards.
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You explain things better than my university teacher
3:55 so that's how you make Mountain dew
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Nile deserves a million subs. My favorite chemistry channel on UA-cam.
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i like nilered more for actual educational content, but codies chemistry stuff is very entertaining ... i dislike the shift in his "values"(?) towards grant thompson, so maybe you can collab with him to bring him on a more sciency path? :D
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One use I can think of is as a ligand for palladium catalyzed coupling reactions
Omg I'm a relatively new fan and this is the oldest video of yours that's been reccomended to me. Your voice over sounds so different :o
Really enjoyed this!
woah Nigel sounds way more nonchalant in older videos. I kinda like it
this is a great channel to watch when you need to fall asleep. i fall asleep instantly because one im not smart enough to understand anything he is saying and two like math? my minds like nah nah
This is the exact type of video I was looking to watch tonight. I’m commenting right when the comments are at 420 so I think the universe meant for this to show up in my recommended.
im wondering if the cloudiness was because of the 5% of addatives in your ethanol to denature it perhaps?
The bittering additives are usually in the ppm range. The rest of the 5% is generally water generated from the distillation process (ethanol forms an azeotrope with water at 95%). So, the 5% really isn't a huge concern. I'm sure if, after recrystallisation, the product was put on a high-vacuum line at RT for 24 h and a proton NMR taken the only residual protons that would be seen are from the ethanol and from water. The additives won't even be detectable.
In this video he sounds so weary, like eternally tired.
I would love to see a video of yours on how those resins harden under UV light
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great vid as alsways nile :)
I watched this whole vid just to see how you tested the final product.
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I am doing a research on the synthesis of dibenzalacetone, do you still have your sources? if so could you please share? Thank you for the video anyways
I would love to ask something... I went through few laboratories at our university and we never put the watchglass on a beaker during recrystallization... The true is, that it was almost forbidden to use beakers for reactions, heating and so on... We could use it just for our solutions of acids, bases and salts. We were using just flasks for almost everything. I just want to ask, why there should be watchglass during recrystallization... Thank you for answer :)
The reason why I watch these videos when I should make homework is because I use it as an excuse to not make it and I justify it to myself because it makes me smarter.
Jk. The REAL reason I watch these videos because the colors and pretty powders makes my brain give me dopamine
I like watching these because i havent a damn clue whats actually going on but its cool to see things changing into other things
the thought of dissolving something without a stir bar manually by glass rod are the biggest nightmares of chemists
If you put a vial of dibenzyl acetone on a zinc sulfide screen and exposed it to UV, do you think you could see a "shadow" in the phosphorescence? You could compare to a blank vial of solvent, a sample of commercial sunscreen...
And compare it to solution of titanium dioxide or something that's opaque but doesn't specifically block UV!
How do the UV absorbing capabilities compare between the trans-trans, cis-trans, and cis-cis stereoisomers? Does one make a better sunblock than another?
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please do a video on your lab, and where and for how much you got yourr lab equiptment.
You should make a channel for all the small experiments that you do to make the bigger ones, like prepping the chemicals
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Sometimes I perform what's known as the Arnold Palmer reaction and I react lemonadeythl with iced teaoxide, yeah I know I'm a chemist.
Any good UA-cam channels on intro to chemistry? I've found your videos very fun to watch, but I want to know more about the processes involved
How about some substances that change their properties when exposed to UV light?
E.g. change their colour, or get hard, or becoming more conductive/resistive to electricity, or more/less soluble in water or some other solvent?
He made uv bears
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i love your channel ¿would it be possible for you to synthesize PLA? i had tried it several times, but it was really difficult to obtain long chain polymers. If you decide to do it, i could "help" you with my poor experience
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Really nice to see this after hearing all the diy sun screen horrors since I started getting into cosmetic chemistry lol
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Lol I love how many people watch his videos theyre literally just chemistry yet so entertaining, maybe Im a bit of a nerd and love cience related content but most science channels dont get this many views I feel like
In my opinion the crystalization did not work because at the vacuum filtration point you did not wash the product with ethanol-ecatic acid mixture and you got an oily mixture at the crystalization point. I am a student and in our lab it is a typical problem when somebody skips the ethanol-ecatic acid washing step.
But does it have a nice matte texture? Does it sit nicely on the skin? How often will I need to reapply it?
3:59 Reminds me of two things moutain dew and piss
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@NileRed my Naoh from where i come from at least comes with these annoying aluminum beads would those afffect anything like should i seperate them or do the have no effect i already know that there is sodium aluminate being produced so does that affect any reaction ??
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That stir bar is fucking vibing
Ive made this last year in my undergrad organic chem lab