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🔬 A chemical group 🧪 With CONH2 group
carbamoyl

carbamoyl

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A small chemical group made from carbamic acid found in some molecules
  • other
  • Specialized
: grupo carbamilo
  • In the urea cycle, carbamoyl phosphate combines with ornithine to form citrulline.

Examples

  • This carbamoyl phosphate will then react with an ornithine molecule.

  • A carbamoyl group plays a crucial role in the synthesis of several amino acids.

  • And so you'll remember carbamoyl phosphate from the when we discuss the urea cycle.

  • The enzyme urease catalyzes the reaction involving carbamoyl groups in the conversion of urea.

Surface Forms

carbamoyl main

Morphology

carbamoyl = carbamic (opaque) = carbam + oyl

The formation is technical chemical morphology (combining form + '-oyl') and requires domain knowledge to interpret.

Etymology

Carbamoyl as a group name comes from carbamic (built from carbon and amide) plus the ending -oyl, which chemists use to name 'a chemical piece' inside a molecule. So a carbamoyl group is that carbon-and-nitrogen piece that can move or join other parts in a chemical reaction.