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Is the chemical structure of an amide bond (-CONH) or (-CONH2)?

Armando Viray  Follow

Amides are derivative of carboxylic acids. It consists of 2 parts, and the bond between carbonyl carbon and nitrogen of ammonia is called is amide bond.

The bond structure of 1° amides is as shown in the figure.

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What you have shown in the question is bond structure of 2° amide, which can be obtained by removing 1 hydrogen from 1° amide.

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Now if you observe structure of nylon, you will see there are n numbers of 2° amides.


And also, I see online that lots of bond structures (like NH2 and COOH) are prefixed with a dash, so they'd appear like -NH2 and -COOH. Is this just a personal preference, or is there a more elaborate reason behind this?

The dash means it is Functional Group like -R means hydrocarbyl functional group, -COOH means carboxylic acid functional group, etc.

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Gary Smith  Follow
, as opposed to the More
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Emery Larick  Follow
for every other reagent and product?More
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Greg Easter  Follow
@CommandoGeek one H from each both end of $\ce{H_2N-R-NH_2}$More
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Edmund Ackah  Follow
One more question, though: why is the coefficient of the product H2O More
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