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Added piperidine and explanation that link is to title of article abstract.
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DrMoishe Pippik
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Water solutions of Water solutions of aminesamines can get to pH+ 12 or so. Piperidine, $\ce{(CH2)5NH}$, is about pH 11.

To get much higher pH+ requires somewhat exotic fluorinated organic chemicals, such as such as $\ce{9-COO-Me-fluorene}$, $\ce{(4-Me-C6F4)2CHCN}$ or $\ce{(4-Me-C6F4)(C6F5)CHCN}$. See Paenurk et al, A unified view to Brønsted acidity scales: do we need solvated protons? and download the PDF for an interesting explanation.