Definition of Piperidine

1. n. An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.

Definition of Piperidine

1. Noun. (organic compound) An alicyclic heterocycle, containing 5 carbon atoms and one nitrogen atom, formally derived by the hydrogenation of pyridine; many of its derivatives are alkaloids or pharmaceuticals ¹

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Definition of Piperidine

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Medical Definition of Piperidine

1. An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odour. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Piperidine

piperazine
piperazine adipate
piperazine calcium edetate
piperazine citrate
piperazine diethanesulfonic acid
piperazine estrone sulfate
piperazine tartrate
piperazines
piperazinone
piperazinones
piperazinyl
piperic
piperic acid
piperidge
piperidges
piperidine (current term)
piperidinedione
piperidinediones
piperidines
piperidinyl
piperidolate hydrochloride
piperidone
piperidones
piperidylthiambutene
piperin
piperine
piperines
piperocaine
piperocaine hydrochloride
piperonal

Literary usage of Piperidine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"piperidine is a colourless, very limpid liquid, having a strong ammoniacal odour, but recalling also that of pepper, anda very caustic taste (Anderson). ..."

2. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1862)
"Babo & Keller. Formation and Preparation. Piperine is decomposed, as directed at page 8, by boiling with alcoholic potash, into piperidine and ..."

3. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1892)
"When piperidine is treated with water heat is evolved. piperidine is a powerful base. Its aqueous solution restores the blue colour of reddened litmus-paper ..."

4. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1867)
"One of the atoms of hydrogen in piperidine may be displaced by ethyl or by methyl, on treating the base with iodide of ethyl or of methyl; ..."

5. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"The great reactivity of piperidine with brom- and iod-benzenes, resulting in the production <if n-phenylpiperidine (B. 21, 1921), is very peculiar. ..."

6. Wöhler's Outlines of Organic Chemistry by Friedrich Wöhler, Ira Remsen, Rudolph Fittig (1873)
"Heated with soda-lime, it yields piperidine ; by boiling with an alcoholic solution of po- tassa, it is resolved into piperidine and ..."

7. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1897)
"... but also a constituent which possesses a nervine and vascular tonic action. During the last three mouths an inquiry as to the value of piperidine ..."

8. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"piperidine, hexahydro-pyridine, is obtained in small quantity by the reduction ... Braun (1904) has shown that by benzoylation of piperidine and subsequent ..."

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