Felix Gutmann - Charge transfer complexes in biological systems
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Examining the role played by partial charge transfer in biology, this work offers a theroetical basis of the physics and chemistry of charge transfer complex formation, especially the function of excited states. It discusses drug interactions, highlighting interaction between different types of antibiotics and suggests ways for the synthesis of pharmaceutical products with reduced side effects.
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Charge transfer in biology, Electron donor-acceptor complexes--Physiological effect.
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1997
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QP517.C49C48 1997eb
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572/.33
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Charge transfer in biology, Electron donor-acceptor complexes--Physiological effect.
Page i
Charge Transfer Complexes in Biological Systems
F. Gutmann
Macquarie University North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
C. Johnson
California State University Los Angeles, California
H. Keyzer
California State University Los Angeles, California
J. Molnr
Albert Szent-Gyrgi Medical University Szeged, Hungary
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Charge transfer complexes in biological systems /F. Gutmann... [et al.]. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8247-9986-0 (alk. paper) 1. Charge transfer in biology. 2. Electron donor-acceptor complexesPhysiological effect. I. Gutmann, Felix. QP517.C49C48 1997 572'.33dc21 97-11365 CIP
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Foreword
It should not come as a surprise that the authors of this book have brought together their well-established expertise in physics, chemistry, biology, microbiology, mathematics and medicine to provide the reader with holistic views of, and fresh insights into the role of charge transfer complexes in biological systems. The rate of advance of the subjects dealt with in the 516 pages of text, and over 2,500 bibliographic citations, is perhaps best illustrated by comparing it with the 265 pages of its (to my knowledge) only predecessor, Michael Slifkin's excellent, but by now severely dated, "Charge Transfer Interactions of Biomolecules" (Academic Press, New York, 1971).
The authors have written a more than timely book for professionals, but they have treated their subject in such a way as to provide an easy understanding by graduate students. Their descriptions of theory and techniques including the role of fractals, chaos and the far-from-equilibrium thermodynamics of living systems, as well as the wide range of biological topics selected, opens the door further to expanded research into this exciting field of charge transfer complexes as it applies to the living state.
I hope that the reader will find this book as informative as I did.
BARRY S. THORNTON FACULTY OF MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTING SCIENCES, AND CENTRE FOR BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY THE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYDNEY BROADWAY, NEW SOUTH WALES 2007 AUSTRALIA
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Preface
With the advent of Mulliken's experiments in the 1930s, charge transfer bonding gradually began to take its place in the division of forces that hold together atoms and molecules. Strong forces such as ionic and covalent bonding explained satisfactorily at first many types of adhesion or interaction encountered in biology. However, much weaker (hydrogen, hydrophobic and van der Waals) forces had to be invoked to account for molecular interactions shaping the structure of biopolymers such as DNA and biomembranes. Charge transfer bonding is also a relatively weak bond with an energy in the range of the hydrogen bond. In the panoply of bonding the weaker forces occupy such a fundamental position that without them life could not exist. In addition, to give purpose to the building blocks of life, communication between them is essential. Communication necessarily involves at least partial exchange of electrons or protons, or the interaction of their electromagnetic fields, between components of matter. Charge transfer complexation fills this criterion, and being reversible, allows exquisite control over many living processes. The nature of charge transfer complexation can be modified by the effect of photons, in which case one enters the realm of excimers and exciplexes.
Electrophysics and electrochemistry enter into biology because of the vectorial, directed flow of electric charges and charged particles, and because of the critical, nay, determining, role played by electrified surfaces in so many biological reactions. These are electrode processes even if there are no metallic or even classically semiconducting electrodes present. Application of physical ideas of biology presupposes the existence, in the biological system under consideration, of (1) an electron-donating and an electron-accepting surface or site, (2) an electronically conducting "external" pathway linking the electrodes, and (3) an ionically conducting
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