“…One widely reported approach for the activation of amide bonds involves the distortion of amide bonds, thus, the amide bond is no longer able to form a resonating structure, loses its double bond character, and becomes more susceptible to nucleophilic or electrophilic attack. A higher distortion of the amide bond from the planar structure makes it more reactive, as evidenced by various twisted amide bonds present in cyclic nonplanar bridged lactams, as demonstrated by Stoltz [ 16 , 17 ], Kirby [ 18 , 19 , 20 ], and others [ 21 , 22 , 23 ] ( Figure 2 ). One of the special cases to achieve maximum rotational inversion of the amide bond so that it remains in the twisted conformation is the use of N -acyl-glutarimides [ 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 ] and N , N -substituted amide bonds [ 30 , 31 ] ( Figure 2 ).…”