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Lipoamide

Lipoamide
Skeletal formula
Space-filling model
Names
IUPAC name
5-(1,2-Dithiolan-3-yl)pentanamide
Identifiers
3D model (Jmol)
ChEBI
ChemSpider
ECHA InfoCard 100.012.159
MeSH lipoamide
PubChem CID
Properties
C8H15NOS2
Molar mass 205.343 g/mol
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Infobox references

Lipoamide is a trivial name for 6,8-dithiooctanoic amide. It is 6,8-dithiooctanoic acid's functional form where the carboxyl group is attached to protein (or any other amine) by an amide linkage (containing -NH2). Sometimes lipoamide is used to refer to protein bound lipoic acid, but this can be misleading as this is technically incorrect. Lipoyl-protein or lipoyl-domain are better terms to refer to protein bound lipoic acid.

There are no reported occurrences of free lipoamide in nature.



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