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When boiled with baryta water, sinapine decomposes into sinapic acid, C H O , and choline, C H NO , the latter a well-known constituent of the bile, and produced also in the decomposition of the lecithin of the brain and yolk of egg. Cocaine, the alkaloid of coca leaves, is decomposed by heating with hydrochloric acid into methyl alcohol, benzoic acid, and a crystalline base, ecgonine, C H NO .
Piperidine hydrochlorate, also, when heated with excess of bromine to 180° C., yields dibrompyridine. Sinapine, the alkaloid which exists as sulphocyanate in white mustard seed, yields, under the same reaction as that applied to atropine and piperine, quite different results.
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