Free-energy Change During Electron Transport

Electron Transfer

PCET transformations are most conveniently represented by a square reaction scheme where electron transfer is followed past proton transfer [electron-proton transfer (EPT) pathway] or proton transfer is followed by electron transfer [proton-electron transfer (PET) pathway].

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Bio-coordination Chemistry

R.H. Holm , in Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry Ii, 2003

8.3.4.1 Thiolate, Halide, and Related Clusters

Every bit shown in Figure 2 , homoleptic thiolate-ligated clusters constitute a iv-member electron transfer series whose core oxidation state ranges from all-ferrous [Iron ₄S₄]⁰ to [Fe_ivS₄]³⁺ with mean oxidation state Iron^two.75+. The all-ferric land [Fe_ivSouth₄]⁴⁺ remains hypothetical. Isoelectronic protein sites and synthetic clusters, illustrated past thiolate-ligated species, are arranged vertically. Thus the clusters [Fe₄Due south₄(SR)_four]²⁻ ( xvi ) are analogues of protein site (3) in the same oxidation country in ferredoxin and loftier-potential proteins. The [Fe₄Due south_four(SR)₄]^{3−,2−,1−} oxidation states have been isolated. Several examples of [Iron₄Southward₄(SR)_four]⁴⁻, containing the all-ferrous core [Fe_fourS_iv]⁰, have been detected electrochemically, but at potentials indicative of extreme sensitivity to oxidation (eastward.1000., [Fe₄S₄(SAr)₄]^{three−/four−} at −1.five   Five to −1.7   Five. ^26,49 ). Because other oxidation states are usually obtained past oxidation or reduction of [Atomic number 26₄S_four(SR)₄]²⁻, these clusters are first considered.

Figure ii. Electron transfer series of native and synthetic [Fe_fourS₄] clusters, showing core oxidation states and formal metal oxidation states. The [Fe_fourDue south₄]⁰ state in a protein is known only in the Iron poly peptide of nitrogenase.

Clusters in the [Fe₄S₄]ⁱⁱ⁺ state were originally prepared by the self-associates Reaction (15) ^47,48 . Subsequently, convenient reactions (16) ^52,53 and (17) ^52,53 were introduced in which sulfur is the source of sulfide. These reactions are among the very few in which cluster assembly has been resolved into detectable steps. ⁵⁰ Thus, under the stoichiometry of Reaction (17), reaction (18a) forms the adamantaine-like complex [Fe_four(SR)_x]²⁻, ⁵¹ which reacts quantitatively with sulfur to give the production cluster in reaction (18b). ⁵⁰ The sum (18a)   +   (18b)   =   (17). If the reactant mole ratio is increased to RS⁻:Fe^III: S ≥ 5:1:1, a different pathway described by sequential reacations (19a), (1), and (19b) ^26,50 is followed. The product is generated in the concluding step by spontaneous dimerization in methanol solution. The sum 4(19a)   +   two(1)   +   (19b) = (17). Reactions (sixteen) and (17) accept been conducted in methanol and water. Many of the reactions leading to the germination of [Fe₄S_iv(SR)₄]²⁻ take been summarized. ⁵⁰ Reaction (xx) ^54,55 is particularly useful for, but non restricted to, the formation of arythiolate clusters. The reaction may be shifted completely to the right past a suitable corporeality of R′SH or removal of production thiol. In this and related systems, mixed clusters of monofunctional ligands are detectable past NMR but are not separable owing to the facile ligand redistribution Reaction (21) ⁵⁴ (n  =   i–iii).

(15) $4{\text{FeCl}}_3+6{\text{RS}}^{-}+4{\text{HS}}^{-}+4{\text{OMe}}^{-}\to {[{\text{Iron}}_4{\text{South}}_4{(\text{SR})}_4]}^{2-}+\text{RSSR}+12{\text{Cl}}^{-}+4\text{MeOH}$

(16) $4{\text{FeCl}}_2+\mathrm{x}{\text{RS}}^{-}+\mathrm{iv}\text{Due south}\to {[{\text{Fe}}_{\mathrm{four}}{\text{S}}_4{(\text{SR})}_{\mathrm{four}}]}^{2-}+3\text{RSSR}+8{\text{Cl}}^{-}$

(17) $4{\text{FeCl}}_{\mathrm{iii}}+\mathrm{fourteen}{\text{RS}}^{-}+\mathrm{iv}\text{Due south}\to {[{\text{Fe}}_4{\text{S}}_4{(\text{SR})}_{\mathrm{iv}}]}^{2-}+5\text{RSSR}+12{\text{Cl}}^{-}$

(18a) $4{\text{FeCl}}_3+14{\text{RS}}^{-}\to {[{\text{Fe}}_4{(\text{SR})}_{10}]}^{\mathrm{ii}-}+\mathrm{two}\text{RSSR}+12{\text{Cl}}^{-}$

(18b) ${[{\text{Fe}}_4{(\text{SR})}_{\mathrm{x}}]}^{2-}+\mathrm{iv}\text{South}\to {[{\text{Fe}}_4{\text{S}}_4{(\text{SR})}_4]}^{\mathrm{two}-}+\mathrm{iii}\text{RSSR}$

(19a) ${\text{FeCl}}_3+\mathrm{v}{\text{RS}}^{-}\to {[\text{Iron}{(\text{SR})}_{\mathrm{four}}]}^{2-}+\mathrm{one}/2\text{RSSR}+\mathrm{iii}{\text{Cl}}^{-}$

(19b) $2{[{\text{Atomic number 26}}_2{\text{S}}_2{(\text{SR})}_4]}^{2-}\to {[{\text{Iron}}_4{\text{S}}_{\mathrm{four}}{(\text{SR})}_{\mathrm{four}}]}^{2-}+\text{RSSR}+2{\text{RS}}^{-}$

(20) ${[{\text{Fe}}_4{\text{S}}_4{(\text{SR})}_4]}^{2-}+n{\text{R}}^{\prime }\text{SH}\rightleftharpoons {[{\text{Fe}}_4{\text{Southward}}_4{(\text{SR})}_{\mathrm{iv}-\mathrm{due\; north}}{({\text{SR}}^{\prime })}_n]}^{2-}+n\text{RSH}$

(21) $(4-n){[{\text{Fe}}_4{\text{S}}_4{(\text{SR})}_{\mathrm{four}}]}^{2-}+\mathrm{north}{[{\text{Fe}}_{\mathrm{four}}{\text{S}}_{\mathrm{iv}}{({\text{SR}}^{\prime })}_{\mathrm{four}}]}^{2-}\rightleftharpoons 4{[{\text{Atomic number 26}}_4{\text{South}}_{\mathrm{four}}{(\text{SR})}_{\mathrm{four}-n}{({\text{SR}}^{\prime })}_n]}^{\mathrm{ii}-}$

The nucleophilic nature of coordinated thiolate sustains reaction with electrophiles such equally weak protonic acids, ⁵⁶ acyl halides, ^nineteen and sulfonium cations. ⁵⁷ Reaction (22) ¹⁹ is illustrative; intermediate species with n  =   1–three are detectable by NMR. The reaction is irreversible; the clusters [Fe_fourS₄10₄]²⁻ (10   =   Cl⁻, Br⁻) are available in high yield past this method. These clusters can exist direct assembled in the reaction systems FeX₃/H_twoS/Ph₄PX ⁵⁸ and FeCl₃/Na₂S/R₄NBr. ⁵⁹ The iodo cluster was first made by the reaction of [Atomic number 26_ivS_ivCl₄]²⁻ with NaI in acetonitrile, ¹⁹ and later on by the assembly Reaction (23) ^60,61 Halide clusters accept been isolated only in the [Atomic number 26_fourS₄]ⁱⁱ⁺ country. Their principal feature is ligand lability, leading to extensive use in generalized Reaction (24) as precursors to differently substituted clusters. By substitution reactions (20), (24) and others, clusters with a various assortment of ligands have been prepared or generated in solution:

(22) ${[{\text{Atomic number 26}}_{\mathrm{iv}}{\text{Southward}}_{\mathrm{four}}{(\text{SR})}_4]}^{2-}+n{\text{R}}^{\prime }\text{COCl}\to {[{\text{Fe}}_{\mathrm{four}}{\text{Due south}}_4{(\text{SR})}_{4-n}{\text{Cl}}_{\mathrm{due\; north}}]}^{2-}+n{\text{R}}^{\prime }\text{COSR}$

(23) $4\text{Atomic number 26}{(\text{CO})}_5+4\text{S}+{\text{I}}_{\mathrm{two}}+\mathrm{ii}{\text{I}}^{-}\to {[{\text{Fe}}_4{\text{Due south}}_4{\text{I}}_4]}^{2-}+\mathrm{xx}\text{CO}$

(24) ${[{\text{Fe}}_4{\text{Due south}}_{\mathrm{four}}{\text{X}}_4]}^{2-}+\mathrm{four}{\text{L}}^{\text{z}}\to {[{\text{Fe}}_4{\text{Southward}}_4{\text{L}}_4]}^{z^{\prime }}+4{\text{X}}^{-}$

The family of thiolate cluster [Fe₄South_four(SR)₄]²⁻ is uncommonly big, including among others those with the simplest ligand (R   =   H), ^62–64 exceptionally beefy ligands (R = 2,4,half dozen-triisopropylbenzenethiolate, ^39,40 2,4,6-triisopropylbenzylthiolate, ⁶⁵ adamantane-1-thiolate ⁶⁶ ), water-solubilizing ligands (R   =   CH₂CH₂OH, ^67,68 (CH_two)₂CO_ii ^{− 69} ), crown ether ligands, ^70,71 macrocyclic tetrathiolates, ^72–74 and dendrimeric thiolates (R   =   dendron). ^75,76 Clusters with other ligand types such as phenolate ⁷⁷ and dithiocarbamate ⁷⁸ take been prepared. Based on kinetics investigations, mechanisms have been proposed for the exchange of jump thiolate with another thiolate in the presence of weak acid, ^79,80 and for Reaction (24) with Ten   =   Cl⁻ or Br⁻ and L   =   RS⁻. ^81–83

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Industrial Biotechnology and Article Products

Chuanshu He , ... Zhengbo Yue , in Comprehensive Biotechnology (Third Edition), 2019

3.09.3.2 Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer

DIET is a recently discovered syntrophic metabolism in which microorganisms exchange electrons between cells to cooperatively degrade organic compounds via electrical contact. ^nine From 2006, the research groups of Stams and others suggested that DIET could happen between obligate H_two-producing acetogens bacteria and methanogenic archaea in some environments. ^nine DIET is considered to be potentially more effective for interspecies electron transfer than traditional strategies under certain conditions.

Biological DIET. The possible existence of biological DIET was first discovered during the study of interspecies electron exchange mechanism in the natural conductive methanogenic aggregates in a false anaerobic wastewater digester. ⁸ Interestingly, Geobacter species are arable in most of the methanogenic environments reporting biological DIET, which is probably because Geobacter species form networks using metallic-similar conductive pili. ^viii The stacking of π–π orbitals of five aromatic amino- acids in the pilin monomer has been proposed to contribute to the metallic-like conductivity of Geobacter species. ^viii Cytochromes that are abundantly present exterior the cell may facilitate electron transfer to or from the pili. ⁷ Prison cell aggregation in methane-producing cultures tin can be considered as a strategy to facilitate the directly interspecies electron transfer. ^7,ix

Facilitating Diet. Since a relative long time (about 30   days) is required for the initial adaption of Geobacter species to transfer electron between species via pili-mediated DIET, conductive materials could be a solution to facilitate Diet. Conductive materials tin mediate electron transfer between cells during DIET, demanding less energetic investment because information technology would be unnecessary to produce extracellular components for biological electrical connections. ⁸ And then far, conductive additives such as nano-magnetite, akaganeite, goethite, granular activated carbon, biochar carbon material, and anthraquinone disulfonate have been shown presumably able to accelerate Diet and thus enhance methane product from organic wastes under anaerobic weather condition.

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Resources Recovery From Wastewater Based on Extracellular Electron Transfer

F. Zhao , D.M. Gurumurthy , in Environmental Materials and Waste, 2016

Abstract

Extracellular electron transfer of microorganisms is attracting worldwide attention, driven by the promise of resource recovery from various wastes and wastewaters. This method is an expanding range of cross-disciplines, although a better understanding of all of the components is required to improve its behavior. In this chapter, nosotros talk over the mechanisms of microbial electron transfer (ie, direct electron transfer and indirect electron transfer) and the capabilities of resource recovery from wastewater and other sorts of waste. Unlike techniques are elucidated to clarify the limiting performances of each component and optimize the operation processes of resource recovery.

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Concatenation Polymerization of Vinyl Monomers

K. Matyjaszewski , J. Spanswick , in Polymer Scientific discipline: A Comprehensive Reference, 2012

3.12.three.4 Activator Regenerated past Electron Transfer ATRP

ARGET ATRP is a 'dark-green' process that uses ppm of the goad in the presence of the appropriate reducing agents such every bit FDA-approved tin can(Ii) 2-ethylhexanoate (Sn(EH)₂), glucose, ^108,141 ascorbic acrid, ¹⁴² phenol, ⁵⁶ hydrazine and phenylhydrazine, ^109,143 backlog cheap ligands, ¹⁴⁴ or selected nitrogen-containing monomers. ¹³⁶ Cu⁰ also works as a reducing agent in an ARGET ATRP ¹³⁹ but information technology increases the level of transition metal halides (CuX and CuX₂) in the reaction organisation due to continuous reduction of Cu^Ii formed past unavoidable termination reactions: (Cu⁰  +   Cu^Two  =   2Cu^I).

Since the reducing agents let starting an ATRP with the oxidatively stable Cu^II species, the reducing/reactivating cycle can be employed to eliminate air or other radical traps in the organization. For instance, styrene was polymerized by the addition of 5   ppm of CuCl₂/tris[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]amine (Me_viTREN) and 500   ppm of Sn(EH)_ii to the reaction mixture, resulting in preparation of a polystyrene (PS) with Yard _n  =   12   500 (M _n,th  =   12   600) and Thou _w/Chiliad _north  =   1.28 without removal of inhibitors or deoxygenation. ¹⁰⁸

ARGET ATRP has besides been applied to polymerization from surfaces, even in the presence of limited amounts of air, Figure 1 . The repetitive reduction/oxidation bicycle between the reducing agent and transition element consumes all oxygen in the reactor. ¹⁴⁵

Figure 1. 'Grafting from' a flat silicon substrate in the presence of air.

Reprinted from Matyjaszewski, K.; Dong, H.; Jakubowski, Westward.; et al. Langmuir 2007, 23, 4528–4531, ¹⁴⁵ with permission from the ACS.

Generally, in an ARGET organisation it is desirable to add an excess of the ligand compared with the corporeality required to form the transition element complex. This may exist necessary to compensate for competitive complexation of the low amount of added transition element with monomer/solvent/reducing agent that are all present in significant molar excess compared with the transition metal. In fact, it has been determined that the ARGET procedure can be driven based solely on addition of excess ligand, ligand substitute, ^137,146 or a nitrogen-containing monomer. ¹³⁶ (Meth)acrylates have been controllably polymerized by heterogeneous ARGET ATRP with equimolar equivalents of ligand and copper levels every bit low as vi.5   ppm. ¹⁴⁷

Another advantage of ARGET ATRP is that catalyst-induced side reactions are reduced to a significant degree. Therefore, it is at present possible to drive an ATRP reaction to college conversion and set up copolymers with college MW while retaining chain end functionality. ^148,149 This has been confirmed past successful concatenation extension of macromolecules formed using this initiation/continuous reactivation system. ¹⁵⁰

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Fundamentals: Physical Methods, Theoretical Analysis, and Case Studies

D.E. Richardson , in Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry 2, 2003

2.49.1 Introduction

Electron transfer reactions and oxidation–reduction reactions in full general are among the most commonly encountered transformations for coordination compounds in solution. Theoretical calculations of the relevant electrode potentials for redox couples are difficult since accented energy differences between two dissimilar electronic configurations must exist determined for transition element complexes. In addition, the function of solvation must be factored in since the impact of the differential solvation energy is substantial. ^ane,2 Density functional theory (DFT) and appropriate semiempirical methods described before in this volume can provide reasonably authentic methods for calculating molecular ionization energies for gas-phase complexes. However, solvation energetics cannot yet be treated at higher levels of theory, such as DFT, and ane must resort to rather severe approximations to model the solvent bathroom. In addition, electrode potentials are fundamentally differential costless energies, so entropies and oestrus capacities must exist included in complete calculations of the molecular energy changes. All the same, progress has been substantial, and electrode potentials for coordination complexes, even including active sites in metalloproteins, tin now be estimated from theory with reasonable accuracy.

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Ecology CHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND PROCESSES

J.F. ARTIOLA , in Environmental Monitoring and Characterization, 2004

OXIDATION-REDUCTION REACTIONS

Electron transfer reactions are chemic reactions involving electrons (oxidation-reduction), and are very common in the soil environment. Nigh of these reactions are biologically catalyzed, and are an active part of the growth and decay of microbial soil populations. However, the firsthand manifestations of these redox reactions are changes in biochemical species that involve the natural cycling of the macroelements (O, C, N, S), and many microelements (Fe, Mn, Cr, Hg, Se, Every bit). Redox reactions are the essence of free energy transfer pathways that ultimately sustain life. The best illustration, and perhaps the well-nigh important pair of redox reactions in nature, are found in photosynthetic processes with O, H, and C elements, as shown in Box 13.2.

BOX 13.2

The Photosynthetic Process

Water disproportionation by sunlight yields:

a $\begin{array}{l}\mathrm{ane}/2{\text{H}}_{\mathrm{two}}\text{O}+\text{free energy}(\text{calorie-free})\Rightarrow \\ \mathrm{ane}/4{\text{O}}_2+{\text{H}}^{+}+{\text{e}}^{-}\end{array}$

In the first half of the reaction hydrogen is oxidized. The second half of the reaction must therefore involve a reduction. Thus the photosynthesis process is completed by the reduction of carbon dioxide to formaldehyde as follows:

b $\begin{array}{l}\mathrm{ane}/4{\text{CO}}_{\mathrm{two}}+{\text{H}}^{+}+{\text{east}}^{-}\Rightarrow \\ 1/4{\text{CH}}_2\text{O}+1/\mathrm{four}{\text{H}}_{\mathrm{two}}\text{O}\end{array}$

Calculation reactions (a) plus (b) and multiplying all sides by four (notation that H+ and e^- cancel out):

$\begin{array}{l}2{\text{H}}_{\mathrm{two}}\text{O}+{\text{CO}}_2+\text{lite}(\text{energy})\Rightarrow \\ {\text{CH}}_2\text{O}+{\text{O}}_2+{\text{H}}_2\text{O}\end{array}$

The energy required to complete this reaction is nigh +481 kJ mol^–1.

In Box 13.2 the oxidation (a) and reduction (b) reactions transfer energy from the lord's day and convert it into chemical energy by moving electrons from water (oxygen atom) to the carbon cantlet. Carbon atoms modify from an oxidation state of +four to an oxidation country of 0, thereby storing energy. And O^2– atoms (from H₂O) become reduced to O⁰ (every bit O2).

Electron transfer potentials depend on the chemical species involved in the reaction. For example, the potential of ii electrons leaving metallic Iron⁰ (to form Feⁱⁱ⁺)is lower (+440 mV) than the potential of two electrons leaving Mg⁰ (to form Mg²+), which is +2350 mV. Both reactions are favorable in that they will release free energy during oxidation. All the same, to reverse the oxidation process, Mg⁰ electrons could exist used to reduce Atomic number 26⁺² to Fe⁰, just Fe⁰ electrons could not be used to reduce Mg+² to Mg⁰, because Fe-derived electrons practise not take sufficient potential.

The potentials of oxidation or reduction reactions are adamant by assuming (past convention) that the electrons involved in the reduction or oxidation of 2H⁺ atoms to form elemental H_ii and vice versa accept a potential of 0 mV. All other redox reactions potentials are measured against this baseline. This is the half-cell hydrogen redox reference potential used to measure out all other redox potentials, reported as Standard Electrode Potentials. Figure 13.six shows a diagram of a classical electrochemical cell design, needed to measure a chemical reaction potential. The oxidation of hydrogen gas occurs in the left side (one-half prison cell). Note that the platinum wire is not involved in the redox reaction, simply eastward^- transfer and the table salt bridge (KCl) is needed to maintain electrical neutrality in each half prison cell. This figure shows that the electrochemical potential of Cu⁺ⁱⁱ reduction to Cu⁰ is +0.34 V. That is, electrons with a potential equal to 340 mV are needed to reduce Cu+². Note that one-half-cell reactions can be written as reduction (M+ + east^- = M) (American convention) or as oxidation reactions (M = Grand+ + e^-) (European convention). Using either convention, electrochemical "series" can be established for various elements. For example, Au, Pt, and Ag are noble metals that are more than difficult to oxidize (easier to reduce), and Cu, Fe and Zn are easier to oxidize (more hard to reduce).

FIGURE 13.half dozen. Electrochemical cell with the standard hydrogen (oxidation side) and copper (reduction side) electrodes.

(Adjusted from Stumm W., and Morgan, J.J. [1996] Aquatic Chemistry: Chemic Equilibria and Rates in Natural Waters. Wiley, New York. This material is used by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

Case What corrodes faster, a Zn or an Fe metal piping? A Zn pipe would corrode faster than an Fe pipe because the Zn0 → Zn+2 reaction has a oxidation potential of +760 mV, compared with +447 mV for Fe⁰ → Fe+ii. This deviation in corrosion tendencies between Zn and Atomic number 26 metal tin exist used to protect Iron pipes by coating them with Zn (galvanic procedure). Zinc slows down the corrosive effects of water by the preferential oxidation of Zn with the subsequent germination of Zn-oxides that act as a bulwark to O₂ gas and protons (h2o acidity). In that location are numerous chemic reactions involved in the oxidation of metal pipes that could be considered, depending on the water quality parameters, such equally pH, alkalinity, O₂ content, and full dissolved solids. As an case, if we consider the reduction of O₂ combined with the formation of hydroxyl (OH^–) ions, and the oxidation of Zn combined with the formation of Zn+²-oxides, 2 overall reactions can be written as follows:

$\begin{array}{l}\text{Oxidation}+\text{complex}\text{formation}{\text{Zn}}^0+2{\text{OH}}^{-}\\ \to \text{Zn}({\text{OH}}_{)2}+2{\text{e}}^{-}\text{E}=+129\text{mV}\end{array}$

O₂ Reduction in water and water dissociation

${\text{O}}_{\mathrm{ii}}+{\text{H}}_2\text{O}+2{\text{e}}^{-}\to {\text{HO}}_{\mathrm{two}}^{-}+{\text{OH}}^{-}\text{E}=-76\text{mV}$

the final reaction is the sum of reactions above as follows:

$\begin{array}{l}{\text{Zn}}^0+\mathrm{ii}{\text{OH}}^{-}+{\text{O}}_{\mathrm{two}}+{\text{H}}_2\text{O}\to \text{Zn}(\text{OH})\\ +{\text{HO}}_2^{-}+{\text{OH}}^{-}\text{E}=+1173\text{mV}\end{array}$

The large positive potential of the combined reactions favors the formation of solid Zn-oxide protective coating on the inside of the pipe.

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From the Molecular to the Nanoscale: Synthesis, Structure, and Properties

C. Creutz , ... N. Sutin , in Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry II, 2003

seven.12.four.v Molecular Electron Transfer in Solution

Solution electron transfer reactions tin generally exist regarded as occurring via a molecule–space/bridge–molecule assembly. For bimolecular reactions, one considers the first-order rate constant for electron transfer within the D–B–A assembly ("precursor complex"). ¹⁰⁶

In the case of an outer-sphere reaction the so-called bridging material is only the material between the redox centers—solvent molecules and, in the case of metal complexes, ligands surrounding the metal centers. Electron transfer betwixt donor and acceptor sites connected by a molecular bridge is at present fairly well understood. ^107,108 The rates subtract with increasing separation of the donor and acceptor and can generally exist interpreted in terms of a beginning-guild charge per unit constant k _et:

(66) $-\text{d}[\text{D}]/\text{d}t=k_{\text{et}}[\text{D}]$

that is a role of a combination of electronic and nuclear factors:

(67) $k_{\text{et}}=\frac{\mathrm{ii}\pi H_{\text{DA}}^2}{h}{\left[\frac{\pi }{\lambda k_{\text{B}}T}\right]}^{1/2}exp[-\frac{{(\lambda +\Delta {\mathrm{Yard}}^0)}^2}{\mathrm{four}\lambda m_{\text{B}}T}]$

where H _DA is the electronic coupling between the donor and acceptor sites, λ is the nuclear reorganization parameter, h is Planck's constant, and Δ1000 ⁰, the standard gratis energy change for the electron transfer, is [E ⁰(D/D⁺)   − E ⁰(A/A⁻)]east. For molecular species these parameters may be evaluated through spectroscopic studies of charge transfer band intensities and energies (H _DA, λ), structural and vibrational frequency differences (λ), and electrochemical or other thermodynamic measurements (ΔGrand ⁰).

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Handbook of Dirt Science

J.Due west. Stucki , in Developments in Clay Science, 2013

11.vii.2 Reduction by Bacteria

Electron transfer to structural Atomic number 26 in the clay mineral lattice by bacteria differs from that described for dithionite in the previous section. Bacterial cells are large compared to the interlayer space of smectite particles; so, unless private smectite layers go dispersed over the cellular surfaces, interactions with the edges of clay mineral layers may be more mutual than with the basal surfaces. Instead of a random reduction of octahedral Fe, with next-nearest neighbour exclusion equally proposed for dithionite reduction, bacterial reduction proceeds from the clay mineral edges with a reducing front that pushes inwards towards the middle of the clay mineral layers.

Such a dissimilarity in pathways is abundantly evident from a comparison of the Mössbauer spectra (Fig. 11.2) of dithionite- and bacteria-reduced Garfield nontronite (Ribeiro et al., 2009). The unaltered nontronite exhibits a unmarried peak with unresolved doublets representing octahedral loftier-spin coordination of the Fe. Spectra at 77 and four   K are like in their appearance and hyperfine parameters. Reduction of structural Iron^{three   +} to structural Fe^{ii   +} invokes magnetic ordering amidst the Fe centres in the octahedral sail, which is manifested in the Mössbauer spectra at four   K. No magnetic order is observed at 77   Thou. Partial reduction (approximately 20% of total Fe at 77   K) past dithionite causes the peaks for Iron^{2   +} and Fe^{3   +} to augment and merge into a feature that is broadened at the base and bears lilliputian similarity to the peaks at 77   K. This behaviour is typical of a system trying to order magnetically but which has not quite reached a fully ordered land. An octahedral sheet comprising mainly Atomic number 26^{3   +} with sprinkles of randomly placed Fe^{ii   +} could be represented by such a spectrum. Re-oxidation of this sample returned the spectrum to an appearance similar to that of the original unaltered nontronite.

Figure eleven.ii. Mössbauer spectra of (A) unaltered, (B) partially bacterially reduced, (C) partially abiotically (dithionite) reduced, (D) fully abiotically (dithionite) reduced and (E–G) re-oxidized forms of each of the respective reduced samples of Garfield nontronite at 77   K (left) and 4   Grand (correct).

From Ribeiro et al. (2009).

Complete reduction past dithionite yielded a spectrum that contained a sharp doublet at 77   K, indicating nigh complete conversion to octahedral Fe^{2   +}. At 4   K, however, the spectrum was transformed to 1 with four broad features representing the signature of a completely reduced nontronite lattice. A full estimation of this spectrum, forth with hyperfine parameters, is yet to exist made, only it can clearly be used as the recognizable blueprint for an all-Atomic number 26^{2   +} domain within the nontronite octahedral canvass.

Partial reduction of the Garfield nontronite by leaner (approximately 20% of total Iron) produced a Mössbauer spectrum in which features reminiscent of the all-Fe^{2   +} lattice appear to overlay a more conventional six-line pattern typical of an all-Fe^{three   +} lattice. The bacteria-reduced sample appears, therefore, to take a region of the structure dominated by Fe^{2   +} and a separate region dominated by Atomic number 26^{3   +}, which would occur if reduction proceeded from the edges inwards. This is in clear contrast with the dithionite-reduced sample in which no clear Fe^{2   +} domain is present.

For more give-and-take regarding bacterial reduction of structural iron in smectites, the reader is referred to recent reviews by Dong et al. (2009) and Stucki (2011).

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Fundamentals: Physical Methods, Theoretical Analysis, and Instance Studies

Chiliad.D. Newton , in Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry II, 2003

two.44.2.3.2 Spin dependence

When ET occurs between TMCs with paramagnetic "cores," the spatial coupling element may be scaled by a cistron, f(S _c, S), depending on the spin quantum number of each core (taken hither as Due south _c for both cores) and the overall spin breakthrough number (S) of the DBA system (including the spin of the transferring electron, assumed to exist "high-spin" coupled to each core spin), ^55,56

(thirteen) $f\left(S_{\text{c}},S\right)\propto {\left[{\left(\mathrm{two}S+1\right)}^2\text{/}\mathrm{ii}\left(\mathrm{two}{S}_{\text{c}}+1\right)\left(2{\mathrm{Due\; south}}_{\text{c}}+2\right)\right]}^{1\text{/}2}$

Thus an observable increase in κ _el (and hence degree of adiabaticity) may occur equally Due south increases from its low-spin (ls) to high-spin (hs) limits.

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Ecology and Related Biotechnologies

C. Koch , ... F. Harnisch , in Comprehensive Biotechnology (Third Edition), 2016

6.43.2.ii Straight Extracellular Electron Transfer

The straight electron transfer (DET) between a microorganism and a solid acceptor involves a physical contact of the bacterial cell membrane or, more precisely, a redox-active membrane organelle, e.g., cytochromes, with the BES anode. Without any diffusive species being involved these membrane-jump cellular redox centres let the electron transfer between the microbial cells and a solid terminal electron acceptor ( Fig. 4A ). Such solid electron acceptors may be naturally occurring insoluble iron(III) mineral particles or the anode of a BES. Direct extracellular electron transfer mechanisms were commencement discovered on sediment bacteria like Geobacter species, which were shown to transfer electrons to an anode using the same electron transfer machinery as for the reduction processes of, for instance, iron(Iii) oxides or syntrophic partner organisms in their natural environment (Lovley, 2008; Summers et al., 2010). Despite the fact that DET is ascribed to several well-known sediments inhabiting microorganisms like Geobacter, Rhodoferax and Shewanella, the underlying molecular mechanisms are still under investigation.

Fig. four. Sketch of the directly electron transfer via (A) membrane-jump cytochromes and (B) nanowires.

Every bit mentioned, the DET via outer membrane redox proteins requires the physical contact (adherence) of the bacterial cell to the BES anode, with the obvious effect that only bacteria within the first monolayer at the anode surface may be electrochemically agile. This constraint severely limits the overall BES performance. This can be easily ended from the maximum geometric current densities accomplished in microbial fuel cells based on this anodic electron transfer mechanism (0.6 and three   μA   cm^{−   ii} for Shewanella putrefaciens and Rhodoferax ferrireducens, respectively). Nevertheless, it has been proposed that DET may as well accept identify between neighbouring cells allowing electron transfer across multiple cell layers.

Recently, it has been demonstrated that some Geobacter and Shewanella strains can evolve electronically conducting molecular pili, denominated every bit nanowires, that permit the microorganism to accomplish and apply more distant solid electron acceptors (and thus a BES anode) without concrete whole cell contact ( Fig. 4B ) (Gorby et al., 2006; Reguera et al., 2005). There is only the need of an attachment of the nanowires, which are linked to a redox agile membrane bound poly peptide that facilitates the transmembrane electron transfer, to the electrode. Obviously, such nanowires may permit the development of thicker electroactive biofilms and thus college anode performances although heavy debates on the specific structure and electrical conductivity of these elements are ongoing (Lovley & Malvankar, 2015; Pirbadian et al., 2014; Snider et al., 2012). It was demonstrated on the instance of Geobacter sulfurreducens that a articulate correlation between the thickness of this nanowire producing bacterial biofilm at the anode and the maximum achievable power density in an MFC exists. For this model organism, current densities (per projected surface surface area) of up to 1   mA   cm^{−   two} were reported, a performance close to that of mixed culture biofilms from natural habitats. Here the ongoing applied science of anode materials on architecture has made considerable progress, yielding in electric current densities of, e.g., more than than 40   mA   cm^{−   2} (in terms of projected surface area) for corrugated paper-thin electrodes (Chen et al., 2012) or the proof-of-concept of the suitability of copper based electrode materials (Baudler et al., 2015).

It was demonstrated that the electron transfer thermodynamics of electrochemically agile microorganisms can be accessed by the apply of dynamic electrochemical methods, especially cyclic voltammetry (Fricke et al., 2008; Harnisch & Freguia, 2012). In these studies anodic biofilms were electrochemically evaluated under turnover (active metabolizing state) and nonturnover (substrate depleted, resting land) conditions, and the formal potential of the relevant electron transfer site of M. sulfurreducens was identified at about −   0.19   Five vs. standard hydrogen electrode (SHE) (throughout the article all potentials are given vs. SHE). Thus, for the just theoretical assumption that glucose is used as the substrate (which is really non possible for Geobacter as these microorganisms cannot digest carbohydrates) the biological loss, and in turn the energy gain of the Geobacter cell, would be 23.15   kJ   mol^{−   ane} of electrons (∼   twenty% of the overall energy).

For an awarding of BES for treating circuitous low-value biomasses the contribution of fermenting bacteria performing the pre-digestion every bit well as electrochemically active microorganisms capable of performing DET based on low-molecular organic acids and alcohols is necessary. This will lower the overall energy conversion efficiency of the bioelectrochemical organization, simply on the other hand, the interplay of a complex microbial customs will ensure substrate flexibility every bit well as stability of the process.

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