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Carboxamide
Introduction
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: