Choline comes in various forms from various places for health reasons, etc.
If you look at its structure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choline
I am thinking the addition of a strong base to the hydroxide will release trimethylamine - I did just that in a test tube, but only got a very slight smell of something fishy, and it looks as though also a gas of generated that could be ignited - however, I used a lighter to test this and possibly it could have been the butane giving a false positive of a flammable gas.
Anyone have any input on this? Not to sure if trimethylamine is of any use, but it has some properties that might make it useful.
Thought I would at least mention this...
If you look at its structure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choline
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Choline hydroxide is one of the class of phase transfer catalysts which are used to carry the hydroxide ion into organic systems, and because of this it is considered a strong base. It is the least costly phase transfer catalyst, and is used as a cheap method of stripping photoresists in circuit boards. Choline hydroxide is not completely stable and it slowly breaks down into trimethylamine.[citation needed]
I am thinking the addition of a strong base to the hydroxide will release trimethylamine - I did just that in a test tube, but only got a very slight smell of something fishy, and it looks as though also a gas of generated that could be ignited - however, I used a lighter to test this and possibly it could have been the butane giving a false positive of a flammable gas.
Anyone have any input on this? Not to sure if trimethylamine is of any use, but it has some properties that might make it useful.
Thought I would at least mention this...