Chemistry of Mauveine

Ever wonder how artificial dyes are made and what the first one ever was? Come on in!

This is a collaborative video with Adrian's Chemistry Laboratory over at    / plasticraincoat1adrianschemistrylaboratory  

Yes, I know, I missed a chromium atom in potassium dichromate - I'm terribly ashamed.

0:00 Perkin and impurities being a feature and not a bug
2:28 The collab
3:26 Perkin's unknown secret sauce
4:18 Identifying Perkin's signature
6:02 The source of the toluidine impurity
7:49 The actual mauveine synthesis
9:46 Grab bag

Various Sources of Info:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauveine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/roc/thi...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro...

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