Bridged Lactams as Model Systems for Amidic Distortion / Tyler J Fulton, Yun E Du, Brian M Stoltz -- Modification of Amidic Resonance Through Heteroatom Substitution at Nitrogen: Anomeric Amides / Stephen A Glover, Adam A Rosser -- Amide Bond Activation by Twisting and Nitrogen Pyramidalization / Yuko Otani, Tomohiko Ohwada -- Transition-Metal-Free Reactions of Amides by Tetrahedral Intermediates / Marco Blangetti, Karen Vega-Hernández, Margherita Miele, Vittorio Pace -- Electrophilic Amide Bond Functionalization / Carlos R Gonçalves, Daniel Kaiser -- Transamidation of Carboxamides and Amide Derivatives: Mechanistic Insights, Concepts, and Reactions / Paola Acosta-Guzmán, John Corredor-Barinas, Diego Gamba-Sánchez -- Amide Bond Esterification and Hydrolysis / Kazushi Mashima, Takahiro Hirai, Haruki Nagae -- Activation of Amide C-N Bonds by Nickel Catalysis / Liana Hie, Tejas K Shah -- Pd-NHC Catalysis in Cross-Coupling of Amides / Faez S Alotaibi, Michael R Chhoun, Gregory R Cook -- Cross-Coupling of Amides Through Decarbonylation / Hong Lu, Hao Wei -- Transition Metal-Catalyzed Radical Reactions of Amides / Taline Kerackian, Didier Bouyssi, Nuno Monteiro, Abderrahmane Amgoune -- W einreb Amide as a Multifaceted Directing Group in C - H Activation / Jayabrata Das, Debabrata Maiti -- Computational Studies of Amide C-N Bond Activation / Xin Hong, Pei-Pei Xie, Zhi-Xin Qin, Shuo-Qing Zhang -- Esters as Viable Acyl Cross-Coupling Electrophiles / Omid Daneshfar, Stephen G Newman -- Cross-Coupling of Aromatic Esters by Decarbonylation / Kei Muto, Junichiro Yamaguchi.