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    • Enthalpy—entropy compensation: a phantom phenomenon

      Athel Cornish-Bowden

      Volume 27 Issue 2 March 2002 pp 121-126

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    • Keywords

       

      Biological variables; enthalpy-entropy compensation; temperature-dependence data

    • Abstract

       

      Enthalpy—entropy compensation is the name given to the correlation sometimes observed between the estimates of the enthalpy and entropy of a reaction obtained from temperature-dependence data. Although the mainly artefactual nature of this correlation has been known for many years, the subject enjoys periodical revivals, in part because of the frequent excellence of the correlation. As with other cases of impossibly good correlation between two biological variables, the explanation is that what purports to be two variables are very largely the same variable looked at in two different ways

    • Author Affiliations

       

      Athel Cornish-Bowden1

      1. Bioènergètique et Ingènierie des Protèines, Institut Fèdèratif “Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie”, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 31 chemin Joseph-Aiguier, B.P. 71, Marseille Cedex 20 - 13402, France

    • Dates

       
      Published
      March 2002
      Manuscript received
      17 January 2002
      Accepted
      4 February 2002

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