ABSTRACT

Hydrogen-Carrying Role in One Loop to Formulations that Account for Hydrogen Translocations in All Three Loops ..................................................................67

4.3 Ubiquinone Catalysis, Semiquinones, Site Structures, and Regulation in Energy Conversion..............................................................................................................73 4.3.1 Sites of Primary Energy Conversion: SQ Not Significantly

Stabilized-

K

Low................................................................................................73 4.3.2 Sites of Secondary Energy Conversion: SQ Stabilized

Significantly-

K

between 10

and 10 ................................................................75 4.3.3 Sites with SQ Greatly Stabilized-

K

Perhaps

..........................................76 4.4 Energetics ................................................................................................................................76 4.5 Properties and Potential Reactivity of Ubisemiquinone

Radicals with Molecular Oxygen ...........................................................................................78 Acknowledgments ............................................................................................................................78 References ........................................................................................................................................79