ketomethylenamine

English

Noun

ketomethylenamine (plural ketomethylenamines)

1. (organic chemistry) Any enamine containing a methyl and a ketonic carbonyl group.
   • 2015 November 14, “Picomolar Inhibition of Plasmepsin V, an Essential Malaria Protease, Achieved Exploiting the Prime Region”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Successively, the bromomethylketone of Fmoc-leucine reacted with the free amine group of I to give the ketomethylenamine II, which, after the protection on the amine function with Boc, was reduced with NaBH 4 in an epimeric mixture of the HEA analogues (compound III in S1 Fig).