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Diisopropylethylamine
Extracted from the Wikipedia article N,N-Diisopropylethylamine.
N,N-Diisopropylethylamine, or Hünig's base, is an organic compound that is a tertiary amine. It is named after the German chemist Siegfried Hünig. It is used in organic chemistry as a non-nucleophilic base. It is commonly abbreviated as DIPEA,DIEA, or i-Pr2NEt.