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2,4,6-tri(dimethylaminomethyl)phenol (This is where it gets hard)

Category: Polymers
Posted on: March 22, 2007 9:00 AM, by Molecule of the Day

Yesterday's entry on epichlorohydrin got us halfway to an epoxy resin, with the aid of good old bisphenol A. In that other tube, you'll often find some sort of amine, which, when mixed with a prepolymer like that formed with epichlorohydrin-bisphenol A, heats up and hardens.

InChI=1/C15H27N3O/c1-16(2)9-12-7-13(10-17(3)4)15(19)14(8-12)11-18(5)6/h7-8,19H,9-11H2,1-6H3

This triamino-phenol is one hardener found in epoxy adhesives. It reacts further with the epichlorohydrin, giving a cross-linked, hard (or just firm) epoxy resin. It's also responsible for the smell you probably associate with epoxy.

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[hangdonwheadinshame]Sorry, my ignorance of chemistry was revealed when the title of the posts suggested to me this has something to do with Vi*gra [/hangdonwheadinshame]

Posted by: coturnix | March 22, 2007 11:34 AM