Robert A Alberty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Published online: May 2005
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003879
The thermodynamics of chemical reactions and biochemical reactions (enzyme‐catalysed reactions at specified pH) deals with equilibrium constants K of chemical reactions and apparent equilibrium constants K’ for biochemical reactions, reduction potentials for chemical half‐reactions, and apparent reduction potentials for biochemical half‐reactions.
Keywords: thermodynamics; apparent equilibrium constant; electrode potential; Gibbs energy; enthalpy
| Further Reading | |
| Alberty RA (1998) Calculation of standard transformed Gibbs energies and standard transformed enthalpies of biochemical reactants. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 353: 116–130; 358: 25–39. | |
| Alberty RA (2001) Standard apparent reduction potentials for biochemical half reactions as a function of pH and ionic strength. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 389: 94–109. | |
| other Alberty RA (2002a) BasicBiochemData2. http://www.mathsource.com/cgi‐bin/msitem?0211‐622. | |
| book Alberty RA (2002b) Thermodynamics of Biochemical Reactions. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. | |
| Alberty RA (2002c) Thermodynamics of systems of biochemical reactions. Journal of Theoretical Biology 215: 491–501. | |
| Alberty RA and Goldberg RN (1992) Calculation of thermodynamic formation properties for the ATP series at specified pH and pMg. Biochemistry 31: 10610–10615. | |
| book Alberty RA and Silbey RJ (2001) Physical Chemistry. New York: Wiley. | |
| Alberty RA, Cornish‐Bowden A, Gibson QH et al. (1994) Recommendations for nomenclature and tables in biochemical thermodynamics. Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry 66: 1641. (Also published in 1996 European Journal of Biochemistry 240: 1–14). | |
| Goldberg RN and Tewari YB (1994) Thermodynamics of enzyme‐catalyzed reactions: Parts. 3–6 Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data 23: 547–617; Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data 23: 1035–1103; Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data 24: 1669–1698; Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data 24: 1765–1801. | |
| Goldberg RN, Tewari YB, Bell D, Fazio K and Anderson EJ (1993) Thermodynamics of enzyme‐catalyzed reactions; Part 1. Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data 22: 515–582. | |
| Wagman DD, Evans WH, Parker VB et al. (1982) The NBS tables of chemical thermodynamic properties. Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data 11 (Supplement no. 2). | |
| book Webb EC (1992) Enzyme Nomenclature. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. | |
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