lutidine

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English

Etymology

Coined by Scottish chemist Thomas Anderson in 1851 as a contracted anagram of toluidine, with which the compounds share their empirical formula

Noun

lutidine (countable and uncountable, plural lutidines)

  1. (organic chemistry) Any of several dimethyl derivatives of pyridine, but especially 2,6-dimethyl pyridine that occurs in coal tar.

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