Talk:P-Xylene

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New info

I've translated the German page and merged the information. I put up an clean up tag, because I have to go to work now. I should be able to clean it up when I get back.Wolfmankurd 11:50, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Confusion

As of early summer, 2007, this page is a poor cousin to most Wikipedia chemistry pages. It confuses p-xylene with its chemical derivatives and polymers. Much of the page content belongs under different headings.

Article needs serious rewriting

The bulk of the text in this article needs to be removed since it talks about the polymer, poly(xylylene) or Parylene.

Polymers are named for the monomers from which they are assembled, not the repeating units. See polymers. For example -CH2-CH2-CH2-CH2-CH2-CH2- is not polymethane, it is polyethylene. The monomer for parylene is made in situ by pyrolysis of '[2.2]paracyclophane'.

The article focuses on this mis-named polymer and even statements about is use in PET bottles is misleading. p-Xylene must be oxidized to terephthalic acid before being used in PET. p-Xylene is a single molecular structure, it is not used to coat electrical components etc and all the advantages and so on are not attributable to p-xylene. All the mentions regarding poly(xylylene) or Paralene need to go in a separate article.

This article should be almost identical to the ones on m-xylene or o-xylene.

I will make these major edits within a week of today (July 12, 2007).Silverchemist 17:37, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What's it good for?

There's lots of technical information here, but not the slightest mention of why people make it or what it's used in or used for.