Turning Cinnamon into Benzaldehyde to Make DEA-Banned Dr.Pepper

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To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/AmateurChemistry . The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. In this video I extract cinnamaldehyde from cinnamon and turn it into benzaldehyde to make a semi-legal Dr.Pepper while my lab becomes one with cinnamon powder. If you enjoyed the video consider liking it, sharing it with a friend, and subscribing to my channel - I would really appreciate that :) If you want to further support my work and watch exclusive content here's my Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/AmateurChemistry Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/amateurchemistry_/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@amateur.chemistry Also, excuse me for my poor speaking, English is not my native language so I have some trouble with pronunciation, in case you don't understand something there are always subtitles made by me. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My very original counterfeit Dr.Pepper recipe: Ingredients: 100ml of water 21g of sugar 30mg of caffeine (optional) A few ml of vanilla flavoring 10ml of lemon juice or a few grams of citric acid 0,5 ml of benzaldehyde 200ml (or more) of carbonated water Dark brown food coloring Mix all the ingredients together except the carbonated water and shake them to make sure that everything is dissolved, then add the carbonated water and enjoy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0:00 Intro 3:04 Extracting cinnamaldehyde from cinnamon using steam distillation 7:40 Turning cinnamladehyde into benzaldehyde using retro aldol condensation 13:09 Making my own Dr.Pepper 15:53 Outro #chemistry #experiment #beautiful #demosntration #science #interesting #cinnamon #fire #cool #reaction