sulfonamide
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- Synthesis and reactions
- Sultams<span class="anchor" id="Sultams"></span>
- Disulfonimides
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|200px|The structure of the sulfonamide group
In organic chemistry, the sulfonamide functional group (also spelled sulphonamide) is an organosulfur group with the structure . It consists of a sulfonyl group () connected to an amine group (). Relatively speaking this group is unreactive. Because of the rigidity of the functional group, sulfonamides are typically crystalline; for this reason, the formation of a sulfonamide is a classic method to convert an amine into a crystalline derivative which can be identified by its melting point. Many important drugs contain the sulfonamide group.