Sulfonamide
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In chemistry, a sulfonamide is an amide of a sulfonic acid, with the general chemical equation R-SO2-NH2, where either of the nitrogenous hydrogen atoms may be replaced by other chemical groups. A large class of antibiotics are based on the sulfonamide structure.