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quinuclidine

n. (context organic compound English) The saturated, bicyclic heterocycle ''1-azabicyclo[2.2.2]octane''; any of its derivatives.

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Quinuclidine

Quinuclidine is an organic compound and a bicyclic amine and used as a catalyst and a chemical building block. It is a strong base with pKa of the conjugate acid of 11.0. This is due to greater availability of the nitrogen lone pair . It can be prepared by reduction of quinuclidone.

The compound is structurally related to DABCO in which the other bridgehead is also nitrogen and tropane with a slightly different carbon frame.

Quinuclidine is found as a structural component of some biomolecules including quinine.