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Definition of Lactams

1. lactam [n] - See also: lactam

Medical Definition of Lactams

1. Cyclic amides formed from aminocarboxy acids by the elimination of water. They are isomeric with lactims, which are enol forms of lactams. Pharmacological action: antibiotics, lactam. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lactams

Literary usage of Lactams

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds; Or, Organic Chemistry by Victor von Richter (1885)
"With the lactams the hydrogen of the NH-group, ... The ethers of the lactams (in which the alkyl is attached to nitrogen) are very stable, ..."

2. Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds: Or, Organic Chemistry by Victor von Richter (1891)
"... lactams (inner amides) are produced, in the latter the ... The ethers of the lactams (in which the alkyl is attached to nitrogen) are very stable, ..."

3. Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds: Or, Organic Chemistry by Victor von Richter (1891)
"The oxygen may be taken from the hydroxyl or from the CO-group of carboxyl ; in the first instance so-called lactams (inner amides) are produced, ..."

4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The mass spectra of the trans- and ns-0-lactams gave the expected parent ion ... Attempts to pyrolyze the |8-lactams to the corresponding stilbenes were not ..."

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