The kinetics of the oxidation of N-aminopiperidine with chloramine was studied at different temperatures, with variable concentrations of the two reactants and at a pH ranging between 12 and 13.5. The reaction showed to be involving two steps: the first corresponded to the formation of a diazene intermediate, the second to the evolution of this intermediate into numerous compounds within a complex reactional chain. The rate law of the first step was determined by the Ostwald method and 2 found to be first order with respect to each reactant. The rate constant was determined at pH = 12.89 and T = 25°C: k 2 = 1.15 × 10 5 exp(-39/RT) M -1 s -1 (E 2 in kJ mol -1 )With decreasing pH value, the first step exhibited acid catalysis phenomena, and diazene was converted into azopiperidine particularly faster. This created overlapping UV-absorptions between chloramine and azopiperidine, also observed in HPLC. GC/MS analyses were used to identify some of the numerous by-products formed. Their proportions are dependent of both pH and the reactants' concentrations ratio. A reaction mechanism taking this relationship into account, was suggested.