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Definition of Lactam
1. n. One of a series of anhydrides of an amido type, analogous to the lactones, as oxindol.
Definition of Lactam
1. Noun. (organic chemistry) Any of a class of cyclic amides, that are the nitrogen analogs of lactones, formed by heating amino acids; the tautomeric enol forms are known as lactims. ¹
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Definition of Lactam
1. a chemical compound [n -S]
Medical Definition of Lactam
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lactam
Literary usage of Lactam
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Hydrolysis of 10 with 2% potassium hydroxide in methanol gave the lactam alcohol 12
... The major component, isolated in 36% yield, was racemic lactam 2: mp ..."
2. Recent Advances in Organic Chemistry by Alfred Walter Stewart (1920)
"The mystery of the third carboxyl group in the chlorophyll nucleus has suggested
that this third carboxyl may be masked by lactam formation in which one of ..."
3. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"... 292), while dry hydrogen chloride produces a salt, which at 130° is rearranged
into ammonium chloride, and the ester of an unsaturated d-lactam- ..."
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