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What is Entatic state?

Definition 24.14 University Chemistry — Year 3 · Chapter 24 — Bioinorganic Chemistry

The entatic state is a metal site held by the protein in a strained geometry, between the geometries preferred by its two oxidation states, which lowers the reorganisation energy of its reactions.

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