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The research aims to teach students the principles of spectroelectrochemistry and how to determine the redox potential of cytochrome c.

Spectroelectrochemical Determination of the Redox Potential of Cytochrome c via Multiple Regression. An Undergraduate Instrumental Analysis or Biochemistry Laboratory Exercise

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Laboratory exercise demonstrates redox potential determination in cytochrome c, suggesting a novel educational approach.

The research aims to teach students the principles of spectroelectrochemistry and how to determine the redox potential of cytochrome c.
Undergraduate laboratory exercise in instrumental methods or biochemistry
Reduction of bovine cytochrome c in the presence of DCIP
Spectroscopic monitoring of the reduction process
Determination of concentrations using Beer’s law and multiple regression
Estimation of redox potential using the Nernst equation and least-squares fit
Successfully monitored the reduction of cytochrome c spectroscopically
Determined the concentrations of reactants and products accurately
Estimated the redox potential using the Nernst equation with a good fit

Whitaker et al. (2007) studied this question.

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