Niacinamide structure

Niacin/Niacinamide Chemistiy, Uptake and Metabolism. Niacin is structurally the simplest of the vitamins, but has some of the most complex biochemistry of the vita-... 

R=NH2, niacinamide biotin, vitamin H Figure 3.4. Structures of some vitamins. 

Two compounds, nicotinic acid and nicotinamide, have the biological activity of niacin. When nicotinic acid was discovered to be a curative and preventive factor for pellagra, it was already known as a chemical compound, and was therefore never assigned a number among the B vitamins. The name niacin was coined in the USA when it was decided to enrich maize meal with the vitamin to prevent pellagra - it was considered that the name nicotinic acid was not desirable because of the similarity to nicotine. In USA, the term niacin is commonly used to mean specifically nicotinic acid, and nicotinamide is known as niacinamide elsewhere niacin is used as a generic descriptor for both vitamers. Figure 2.16 shows the structures of nicotinic acid, niacin and the nicotinamide nucleotide coenzymes, NAD and NADE... 

Niacin and niacinamide (also known as nicotinic acid and nicotinamide, respectively) or vitamin B3, chemically 3-pyridinecarboxylic acid and 3-pyridinecarboxamide, are able to form various cadmium complexes with known crystal and molecular structures. In order to rationalize the analysis, hereafter the complexes have been differentiated according to the ligand and, within each case, we have only considered the most relevant structures. 

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