Talk:Biochemistry/Thermodynamics

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there seemed to be some vandalism of this section. From what I remembered from my thermo class, some of the sections had been deleted that had correct information. I took the liberty to restore these sections.

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Not True!!! - If the product is continuously removed, the reaction will continue trying to establish an equilibrium (not necessarily equal - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/IB_Chemistry_Equilibrium) of reactants and products and the reaction will be driven forward. Another factor is the energy of activation. If the reaction has a transition state that has a very high energy, regardless of the stability of the product, it may require an insurmountable energy of activation to drive the reaction forward. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activation_energy) see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrhenius_equation

Besides the rather unhelpful format (a book page should not contradict itself in such a fashion. If there is something wrong or something to be added to the page, then feel free to fix it), IMHO the two points are rather void here:

  • If the product is continuously removed... - absolutely correct, but I don't think it fits in this context. Product removal is an additional step, which is described later IIRC. This is not a "data dump" like wikipedia, but a book to learn from. Special cases come after the basics.
  • Activation energy... is described in the next chapter, Biochemistry/Catalysis. Come on, people, this is the first page of the book! It's supposed to be a learning curve and not a concrete wall... --Magnus Manske (talk) 13:02, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
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