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The textbook tunneling model was originally invented by Gamow. Exponential decrease of rate with distance is obtained. This model cannot be used in proteins 

Are r-systems different from o-systems in transferring electrons Such questions conld not be answered until the beginning of the 1980s. It turns out that the difference between o- and n-systems is rather small. However, if a Jt-system is ordered in the optimnm way, it has slower decrease with distance than exponential decrease. 

Actual measurements of rate between metal sites in proteins were performed by O. Farver and I. Pecht, and S. S. Isied et al. The former authors also showed that aromatic rings in the pathway between the donor and the acceptor do not seem to make any great difference to the rate and this was theoretically confirmed by A. Broo. 

Harry B. Gray along with J. Winkler and others carried out a very enlightening experimental work on ET in proteins. Not only did they study natural ET, but also introduced artificial donors or acceptors on the surface of the protein. An important fact is that they most often obtained exponential decrease of the tunneling rate with distance, but a somewhat slower decrease factor for natural ET than in artificial ET steps. A theoretical calculation by A. Broo confirmed this. In the artificial case, the x-systems are not correctly located to promote ET. 

Moser and P. L. Dutton carried out other studies. They concluded that donor-acceptor distance is of primary importance, but that protein structure between two electron exchanging aromatic groups plays an unimportant role. 

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Descriptive Passage and Interpretive Problems 13 More on Coupling Constants 575... 

The Fourier sum, involving the three dimensional FFT, does not currently run efficiently on more than perhaps eight processors in a network-of-workstations environment. On a more tightly coupled machine such as the Cray T3D/T3E, we obtain reasonable efficiency on 16 processors, as shown in Fig. 5. Our initial production implementation was targeted for a small workstation cluster, so we only parallelized the real-space part, relegating the Fourier component to serial evaluation on the master processor. By Amdahl s principle, the 16% of the work attributable to the serially computed Fourier sum limits our potential speedup on 8 processors to 6.25, a number we are able to approach quite closely. 

This process does produce HCN as a by-product in small quantities. Puranik et al. (1990) report on work to develop an improved, more selective catalyst, and on coupling the ammoxidation process with a second reactor in which a subsequent oxycyanation reaction would convert the by-product HCN to acrylonitrile. 

One potential problem associated with column coupling in reversed phase is relatively high back-pressure ( 2600 psi at 1 mL miir ). This will place a limit on the flow rate, which in turn limits the further reduction of analysis time. Also, compared to the new polar organic mode, the retention in reversed phase on coupled columns is deviated more from the average retention on the individual stationary phases. 

However, others reached more ambiguous conclusions. Gates et al. developed a 2D model based on coupling NO vibration to surface phonons, but ignoring the possible role of electron-hole pairs, and successfully captured... 

Note that Deff depends on rii and that its temperature dependence involves that of r. One can of course imagine many more complicated situations, in which the diffusion of the different species is more inextricably coupled or in which motion of charged species is important. 

A variety of computer-controlled pulse sequences consisting of two or more pulses of appropriate length, frequency range, power and phase, and separated by variable time intervals, has been developed, giving rise to families of 1-D (one-dimensional) and 2-D (two-dimensional) techniques. These techniques provide additional or more easily interpreted data on coupled nuclei, facilitating the identification of signals from chemically different groups of nuclei and correlations between spectra from different elements in the same compound. 

Right-hand side the bromine couple is the more positive couple, so we write it on the right of the schematic. Neither Br2 nor Br is metallic, so we need an inert electrode. By convention, we employ platinum if no other choice is stipulated. The electrode at the far right of the schematic is therefore Pt, as. .. Pt(S) . 

The ions that conduct the electrical current can result from a couple of sources. They may result from the dissociation of an ionically bonded substance (a salt). If sodium chloride (NaCl) is dissolved in water, it dissociates into the sodium cation (Na+) and the chloride anion (CL). But certain covalently bonded substances may also produce ions if dissolved in water, a process called ionization. For example, acids, both inorganic and organic, will produce ions when dissolved in water. Some acids, such as hydrochloric acid (HC1), will essentially completely ionize. Others, such as acetic acid (CH3COOH), will only partially ionize. They establish an equilibrium with the ions and the unionized species (see Chapter 13 for more on chemical equilibrium). 

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