As you go from one electron carrier to another (cytochromes, FMN, etc.), do the carriers have increasingly greater reduction potential (more positive)?
As you go from one electron carrier to another (cytochromes, FMN, etc.), do the carriers have increasingly greater reduction potential (more positive)?
Under standard conditions
(Ignoring the reducing agent)
A + e- ----> A-
nFE = - dG = RT ln K
K = e ^ (nfE/ RT)
The more positive E is the greater K is and the more the reaction lies to the right, meaning that the greater the reduction potential the more it wants to be in the reduced form.
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