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ane do not end up as adipic acid. Some of the by-products are useful, but
adipic acid manufacturers produce many millions of pounds per year of
organic oils, which are ultimately burned as fuel because no use has been
found for them.
About half of the nylon made in the world is made from the
polymer-
ization
of
caprolactam
. Although the
cyclohexanone
needed to make capro-
lactam can be made from cyclohexane as shown above, most of it is made
from phenol.
