AN IMIDAZOLE PUMP MODEL OF ELECTRON TRANSPORT

Abstract

We have presented a model of electron transport which has favorable electronic and geometric properties and which can be varied to include the formation of high energy bonds in a manner concurring with experimental data. Nor need it be confined to this application as cytochromes and quinones have been implicated in photophosphorylation. Both steps in the model have the feature that the activated complex is entirely symmetrical and would require only a small vibrational activation energy and a minimum of reorganizational free energy. The problem of electron transfer and the coupling of chemical reactions will be presented in more detail elsewhere using reaction rate theory.