Diffusion kinetics in phospholipid vesicles

✍ Scribed by M. Tomkiewicz; G.A. Corker

• Book ID: 103017139
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 459 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(76)85032-4

✦ Synopsis

When a chemical reaction takes place in il heterogeneous environment, one can foresee circumstances in which diffusion of one of the participants will have pronounced effects on the observed kinetics of the reaction. This paper presents equations which describe the time dependence of the reactants for the specific case where a chemical reaction takes place on the surface of phospholipid vesicles. The model is implemented on experimental results which consist of the kinetics of the chlorophyll radical which was produced by photoexcitntion of chlorophyll. which w;1s dissolved in the phospholipid vesiclcs and which, as a result of the excitition. rrsnsferred its electron to an acceptor which was located outside the vesicle.