Hill reagent

As Hill reagent refers to a chemical compound , which allows electron transport processes in isolated thylakoids (the locations of electron transport in the light reaction of photosynthesis to investigate). A Hill reagent can act as an artificial electron acceptor or electron donor at different points in the electron transport chain . The compounds which have this task in vivo are removed beforehand.

Such an experiment is known as the Hill reaction because Robert Hill first used artificial electron acceptors to elucidate photosynthesis in 1937.

Examples of Hill reagents are:

• 2,6-dichlorophenol indophenol (DCPIP)
• Phenazine methosulfate (PMS).

literature

• Nelson, David L., Cox, Michael M., Lehninger, Albert L. [Ent.]: Lehninger Biochemie . Springer, Berlin; 4th, completely revised u. exp. Edition 2009; ISBN 978-3-540-68637-8 ; ( limited preview in Google Book search) p. 748.