Making Adamantane From Jet Fuel 

For all of your work, you may have gotten 2% yield but you also produced a great video about adamantane chemistry. In my opinion, that's better than 100% yield alone. 🙂

Very neat synthesis! I didn't realise adamantane was that easy to make

To all the synthetic chemists on RU-vid, PLEASE start using an appropriate-sized flask for your reactions. The total volume should never exceed half the flask. This will help you if you have a runaway reaction, exotherm, etc. The situation at 7:13 is such a safety hazard!

This is actually a very impressive and well-demonstrated showcase on extractions and uses of basic hydrocarbons into much more exotic ones, job well done! 💪🏻

The whole first half of the video had me smiling. I work with dicyclopentadiene and the monomer a LOT in my current PhD research. It's fun seeing other people work with it.

This synthetic chemistry chemistry is not only very intelligent, but he is also an excellent instructor! He makes complex concepts interesting and easy to understand! This is coming from someone with dyscalculia, so that is strong proof that he is a phenomenal instructor!

I love how you always synthesis beautifull molecule

2:00 Pd/C on its own isnt really pyrophoric. Only when hydrogen is still sitting on the surface of the palladium it becomes reactive and can possibly burn if exposed to air. Thats why you often burn the Pd/C cake after filtration to make sure that you dont accidentally burn down your waste container

Lol I can see that your video style is inspired by nilered nice! I appreciate you explaining the chemistry with pictures of the compound structure

The adamantane derivative which most comes to mind is amantadine which is an amine derivative which is used to treat Parkinson's related dyskinesia.

The mechanism for molecular rearrangement in this reaction is fucking magic

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I didn’t go through all the comments to check if this has already been said, but I’ll say it anyway. Typically, to decolorize solutions with activated carbon, the rule of thumb is to use the amount that fits on the tip of a spatula. An entire spoonful like you used definitely adsorbed at least a little, or more likely a significant amount of your product, which decreased your yield

Your videos are just getting better! Thank you for your videos!

nilered expet he is underated af keep it up i love these videos!

Fun fact: Due to the structure of adamantane, it is uncharacteristically hard for essentially a pure unsaturated hydrocarbon. No other isomers even come close. It’s firmness is close to medium hardness plastic

This was very cool, sir! Your presentation is much appreciated.

dude I literally couldn't find any videos on JP-10, good video

That Chemist sent me! I will stick around for more!

Take a shot for every cyclopentadiene Also le funny baseball cap shaped molecule

Interesting video. Took less steps that I would have guessed.

This RU-vid channel is a second stage of Nile red.

Your video are ever interesting and well done. But about this one, more than adamantane I would focus on that tar. If you mix with dehydrogenating catalyst, on open flame you can recover a lot of aromatics as naphthalene, anthracene and so on.

Anhydrous aluminum chloride often fumes due to spontaneous formation of its aquo complexes in moist air. Release of HCl requires heat, and while complexation is exothermic, it is possible to prepare AlCl3 solutions in water and isolate the hexahydrate without converting to alumina and HCl, so long as temperature is controlled

you deserve a ton more subs!

Normally it's synthesized under increased pressure - perhaps that's the reason for the low yield.

“today, i will be making some adamantane from jet fuel. but first i have to make some jet fuel” sounds like a nilered quote

thanks for making "Adam and Dane"

This could have easily been an April Fools joke and 97% of the viewers (me included, of course) would not have been able to tell otherwise.

I've seen this before, but never done it because hydrogenation is inaccessible for me. Cool synthesis though, I envy all your stuff.

Amazing video!

03:56 : It almost looks like Chemi is making a homunculus💀

man imagine like smelling this though youre basically just inhaling absolutely tiny diamonds

Take a shot every time he says dycyclopentadiene.

I wonder if the synthesis of adamantane like tooltip-molecules for evetntual furure mechanosynthesis of diamond (like e.g. DC10c) follows a similar pathway.

Thanks

I don't know why, but I can just picture some random dude saying: "Well boys, it's time to make crack with some jet fuel."

Fascinating synthesis. What is responsible for the change from liquid to solid after hydrogenation?

Is it common between chemists to participate in a yield-measurement contest?

Can it melt steel beams?

Do you somehow neutralize AlCl3 after the reaction?

Should be easy to make 1-aminoadamantane from this (haven't checked, just an armchair educated guess, nitration & reduction?) ; which is interesting for its antiviral properties (influenza A treatment).

Make bromantane or Phenylpiracetam Ill buy it. Not enough Racetams on the market sadly :( Aniracetam, Oxiracetam, fasiracetam, phenibut sre all so much harder to find, If you make it, Ill buy it

Yo, this is the shit! I love this! Now make memantine from it.

EDIT: My very bad, I missed this 2% yield at the end :/ It would be worth putting it written on video anyway. And what I am curious, what do you plan to use adamantane for? Or you made it just for making it? Very nice synthesis! After you said about adamantane subliming, I expected you would finally purify it by sublimation for ultra purity and crystallinity. Also, you should always give yield in %, not in mass. Saying "yield is x grams" means nothing without calculating it with starting mass and so on. This is the most aggravating thing in some patents and papers. Always put per cent yield or "yield was x grams with is Y %"

Nilered vibe🙌

Apparently JP-10 has usually about 1% of adamantane by itself.

Memantine from adamantane pls!

Can you use Adams’ Catalyst?

What does adamantane smell like?

Actually, major component of JP-10 is exo-isomer, not endo-, which is solid with mp >60 degr. C. Nice video, liked+subscribed.

where did you get the dyclopentadiene?

turns it into metal alloy with silver and mercury.

Good first step. Now how do we go about nitrating Amantadine?

Hallo dutchies represent, je kan het accent niet verbergen~ dit kanaal is gekoloniseerd

so, why call it "tetrahydrodicyclopentadiene" and not just dicyclopentane?

Good video but you should practice accurate narration of technical terms. When I was making chemistry videos I had the same problem but I'm taking a break right now

Why did i read the title as "Making adamantium from jet fuel" ? 😂

Adamantane look like Hexamine or Hexamethylene Triperoxide Diamine for me.

I’m disappointed by the lack of Adam Ant puns in the comments

Cylopentadine 🤔 know we're talking

Tetrahydrodicyclopentadiene? So, dicyclopentane?

I am amused that hydrating the molecule makes it look soggy. Look at that soggy boi, he wet.

For a second I thought how the hell do people make adamantine

Cool

wolverine, there I said it

Hm, I thought you were going to use hexamine

Damn, Adamantane is a cap,

Say dicentahydrodyline again, see what happens.

disiclopentodaimn

the word "hydrogenation" and a home chemistry channel just doenst go well thogheter with me

Great vid, btw do you have a discord server ?

:)

Wow! This is beautiful! Impressive chemistry and good lab work. I love your videos. Never knew that THDCP was a rocket fuel component. ⚗🙂👍🏻Nice to learn something new.

Oof, glad the yield was greater than 0