Pipecolic acid

Pipecolic acid (piperidine-2-carboxylic acid) is a small organic molecule which accumulates in pipecolic acidemia. It is a carboxylic acid of piperidine. Pipecolic acid (piperidine-2-carboxylic acid) is a small organic molecule which accumulates in pipecolic acidemia. It is a carboxylic acid of piperidine. Pipecolic acid can be associated with some forms of epilepsy. CRYM, a taxon-specific crystallin protein that also binds thyroid hormones, is involved in the pipecolic acid pathway. Pipecolic acid was identified in the Murchison meteorite.It also occurs in the leaves of the genus Myroxylon, a tree from South America. Pipecolic acid, like many other α-amino acids, has a chiral stereocenter at the α carbon.