Proticity

The term proticity (engl. Proticity ) referred to in the chemical , the ability or tendency of a substance or chemical group, a proton split off or a chemical bond to provide. The term is hardly used in chemistry.

In biochemistry and biophysics , the term was introduced by Nobel Prize winner Peter D. Mitchell as a word formation analogous to the term electricity , to emphasize that the flow of protons through a biomembrane can do work in the form of metabolic processes .

Proticity , in contrast to the Engl. Counterpart proticity , is only occasionally used in the specialist literature.

See also

• Acid constant
• Protic solvents
• Chemiosmotic coupling

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1. ^ P. Mitchell: Chemiosmotic coupling in oxidative and photosynthetic phosphorylation, 1966. In: Biol. Rev. Cambridge Phil Soc. 41, 2011, pp. 445-502. PMID 22082452 doi: 10.1016 / j.bbabio.2011.09.018 .
2. ↑ Evelyne Hamacher, Stefan Gryzbek, Christian Fogel, Andreas Barth (Institute for Biophysics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main): Time-resolved flash spectroscopy of charge separation and recombination in the photosynthetic reaction center. ( Memento from May 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ W. Hoppe, W. Lohmann, H. Markl, H. Ziegler (eds.): Biophysik . Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin 1982, ISBN 0-387-11335-5 .
4. ↑ Rodney Cotterill: Biophysics. Wiley-VCH, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-527-40686-9 .