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Carboxamide

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Carbamazepine, an example of a carboxamide

Carboxamides are drugs that can be used as anticonvulsants. In organic chemistry carboxamides (or amino carbonyls) are functional groups with the general structure R-CO-NH2 with R as an organic substituent.

Two amino acids, asparagine and glutamine, have a carboxamide group in them.

The following are carboxamides:

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