How would you go about in processing a common organic material into a plastic?

Question

How would you go about in processing a common organic material into a plastic?

Answer 1

plastic is a polymer.. you would need to set up some sort of polymerase reaction.

Answer 2

Produce (ethanol) alcohol from cellulose

Ethylene (also refered to as Ethene) can be conveniently produced in the laboratory by distilling absolute ethanol with an excess of concentrated sulfuric acid and washing the distillate vapor stream in an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide to remove the sulfur dioxide contaminant.

Polyethylene is created through polymerization of ethene. It can be produced through radical polymerization, anionic addition polymerization, ion coordination polymerization or cationic addition polymerization. This is because ethene does not have any substituent groups that influence the stability of the propagation head of the polymer. Each of these methods results in a different type of polyethylene.

One common type of plastic: HDPE is defined by a density of greater or equal to 0.941 g/cm3. HDPE has a low degree of branching and thus stronger intermolecular forces and tensile strength. HDPE can be produced by chromium/silica catalysts, Ziegler-Natta catalysts or metallocene catalysts. The lack of branching is ensured by an appropriate choice of catalyst (for example, chromium catalysts or Ziegler-Natta catalysts) and reaction conditions. HDPE is used in products and packaging such as milk jugs, detergent bottles, margarine tubs, garbage containers and water pipes.

A Ziegler-Natta catalyst is a reagent or a mixture of reagents used in the production of polymers of 1-alkenes (α-olefins). Ziegler-Natta catalysts are typically based on titanium compounds and organometallic aluminium compounds, for example triethylaluminium, (C2H5)3Al.

Ziegler-Natta catalysts are used to polymerize terminal 1-alkenes.

n CH2=CHR → -[CH2-CHR]n-

Karl Ziegler, for his discovery of these titanium based catalysts, and Giulio Natta, for using them to prepare stereoregular polymers, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963.

Answer 3

u have to set some reaction

i forgot the reaction hehe