lactam

thumb|right|450px|From left to right, the above are general structures of β-lactam, a [[γ-lactam, a δ-lactam, and ε-lactam. Their common names are β-propiolactam, γ-butyrolactam, δ-valerolactam, and ε-caprolactam.]]

Research

178,145 papers

Natural beta-lactam antibiotics.Annual review of microbiology · 1980
α-Lactam Electrophiles for Covalent Chemical Biology.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2023
Dihydropyridine Lactam Analogs Targeting BET Bromodomains.ChemMedChem · 2022
"The Early Beta-Lactam Catches the Germ": Empiric Antimicrobial Sequence in Bloodstream Infections.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2022
Intramolecular lactam cross-linking of short oligoureas.Journal of peptide science : an official publication of the European Peptide Society · 2024

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Contents

Nomenclature
Beckmann rearrangement
Schmidt reaction
Cyclization of amino acids
Intramolecular nucleophilic substitution
Iodolactamization
Kinugasa reaction
Diels-Alder reaction
Lactam–lactim tautomerism
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A lactam is a cyclic amide, formally derived from an amino carboxylic acid through cyclization reactions. The term is a portmanteau of the words lactone + amide.