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Pyrrolidine definition

(organic chemistry) Any of a class of heterocyclic amines having a saturated five-membered ring; especially the parent compound of this class, C4H9N.
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Singular:
pyrrolidine
Plural:
pyrrolidines

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Pyrrolidine Sentence Examples

  • Hydriodic acid at high temperature reduces pyrrol to pyrrolidine (tetra-hydropyrrol), C 4 H 8 NH.

  • This substance easily splits out alcohol, and the ring compound then formed yields pyrrolidine on reduction by sodium in amyl alcohol solution.

  • An experimental and computational study of the enantioselective lithiation of N -Boc pyrrolidine using sparteine-like chiral diamines, J. Am.

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