Nitrosamines in rubber latex

[Olivia]

Hey Everyone!

 

I'm interested in doing an undergraduate level research in something to do with nitrosamines in latex.

 

An idea my supervisor gave me is to find out the effects of temperature and other factors that affect nitrosamine formation.

 

Can anyone please help me by suggesting more possibilities that can be researched at my level (undergrad) and i have one year to do the research along with my course work, so that's not really a lot of time. But also this contributes to a major portion of my GPA, so it has to be good enough too....

 

One other thing, i'm from an asian country, we have rubber trees growing here but we don't have so many high end lab facilities/equipment like the states or germany or UK does.

 

I'd really appreciate if you help me out

 

Thanks!!

[Enthalpy]

Be careful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrosamine#Cancer

 

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Would you like instead to make fuels from isoprene obtained from latex?

 

If you achieve a head-to-tail trimer or tetramer of isoprene, then hydrogenate it, you get farnesane and phytane, which would be very nice as rocket fuels (better phytane then), probably also as transformer oil, vacuum grease...

http://www.chemicalforums.com/index.php?topic=56069

(you must log in to see the images, and beware I changed my mind after writing some messages there)

 

The outstanding freezing point depends fundamentally on head-to-tail oligomer. Beware pristane is dangerous and shall be excluded.

 

More difficult, farnesane would be a perfect replacemet for aeroplane's kerosene, but kerosene is so cheap... One US company wants to produce fanersane from bioengineering methods through the diphosphate route: I suppose an isoprene trimer - with the proper catalyst - is easier.

[Olivia]

Hello Enthalpy!

 

Thank you soo much for taking time to reply And thanks for the warning!

 

But finally i got a topic, it sort of deals with the inhibitors of nitrosamines, and application of that into industrial products.

 

Hope it will work out for me. Lemme know what you think and also feel free to post any comments

 

Thanks again!!