BIOL2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Exergonic Reaction, Activation Energy, Chemical Equation

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Free energy: amount of energy available to do work. Reactions tend to occur spontaneously if products have lower potential energy and higher entropy than the reactants. Entropy: the measure of disorder of a system: the best way to determine entropy is to count the amount of molecules on each side of the chemical equation. Glucose is a high potential energy molecule. C-h bonds have a lot of energy stored in them because of shared electrons: relatively equal electro negativities = high potential energy, unequal electro negativities = low potential energy. Gibbs free-energy change: indicates whether a reaction is spontaneous or requires energy: delta g = delta h t(delta)s. If the free-energy change is less than 0, this indicates a spontaneous reaction (negative delta g) If the free-energy change is greater than 0, this indicates a reaction the requires energy input to occur (positive delta g) If free-energy change is equal to 0, then the reaction that is at equilibrium.

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