Carbamate



Carbamates, or urethanes, are a group of methyl isocyanate for formation of N-methylcarbamates).

Carbamates in biochemistry

A nitrogen-substituted carbamic acid is formed when a ion.

"R" stands for the atoms attached to the other end of the reversible (with equilibrium constant K << 1 in the above reaction), as the N–C bond is highly labile.

Some occurrences of carbamate groups in nature

In oxygen molecules bound to the protein.

lysine carbamate, which hold the ion in place. The carbamate is formed when an uncharged lysine side-chain near the ion reacts with a carbon dioxide molecule from the air (not the substrate carbon dioxide molecule), which then renders it charged, and, therefore, able to bind the Mg2+ ion.

Commercial carbamate compounds

A group of insecticides also contains the carbamate functional group, for example, organophosphate pesticides also inhibit this enzyme, though irreversibly, and cause a more severe form of cholinergic poisoning.

elastomers, and solids.

Urethane or ethyl carbamate is occasionally used as a veterinary medicine.

In addition, some carbamates are used in human physostigmine.

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