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Carboxamide vs Carbonamide - What's the difference?

carboxamide | carbonamide |


In organic chemistry terms the difference between carboxamide and carbonamide

is that carboxamide is any amide of a carboxylic acid - RC(=O)NR2 while carbonamide is the -CO-NR2 functional group of an amide (or, by extension, an amide - especially a fully substituted amide.