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lepidine
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Lepidine, or 4-methylquinoline, is an organic compound with the formula . It is one of the two commercially important methyl quinolines. It is a colorless liquid, although impure samples can appear yellow.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C10H9N
- Molecular weight
- 143.18 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- 4-methylquinoline
- SMILES
- CC1=CC=NC2=CC=CC=C12
- InChIKey
- MUDSDYNRBDKLGK-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 2.6
- Polar surface area
- 12.9 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 1
- Formal charge
- 0
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Drug data · ChEMBL
- Molecule type
- Small molecule
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Wikidata facts
- Has part
- carbon
- Mass
- 143.073
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- chemical formula
- C₁₀H₉N
- canonical SMILES
- CC1=CC=NC2=CC=CC=C12
- melting point
- 10.0
- found in taxon
- Nicotiana tabacum
- Commons category
- 4-Methylquinoline
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Lepidine, or 4-methylquinoline, is an organic compound with the formula . It is one of the two commercially important methyl quinolines. It is a colorless liquid, although impure samples can appear yellow.
Its methyl group is fairly acidic, allowing for condensations to occur at this position, especially when the nitrogen is quaternized. It is used in the preparation of cyanine dyes.
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