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Concentrations & Beer-Lambert Equation
« on: September 01, 2010, 12:33:12 AM »
Ethanol + NAD+ :rarrow: Acetaldehyde + NADH + H+.

You have 1ml solution containing 100uM of Ethanol and 1mM of NAD+. You then add 1mg of alcohol dehydrogenase. Assuming all of the ethanol is converted to acetaldehyde, what will the final concentration of NADH be in the solution?


    I understand the reaction and how ADH catalyzes it. Normally, I have no issues determining concentrations. That is general chemistry stuff. This one has me a bit confused though. Every which way I do it, I end up with too many grams and a concentration too high. I feel like I'm missing units here, particularly as pertains to volume. I would greatly appreciate some help.

   I require the concentration so that I can plug it into the Beer-Lambert equation to find out an absorbance. That, I'm fine with. It's just this concentration question that is getting my goat.

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Re: Concentrations & Beer-Lambert Equation
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2010, 03:28:21 AM »
You don't have to calculate anything - just look at the reaction equation. How many moles of NADH are produced per each mole of ethanol? Volume is constant.
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