Coupling Through Emergent Conservation Laws (Part 3)

joint post with Jonathan Lorand, Blake Pollard, and Maru Sarazola

Last time we gave a quick intro to the chemistry and thermodynamics we’ll use to understand ‘coupling’. Now let’s really get started!

Suppose that we are in a setting in which some reaction

takes place. Let’s also assume we are interested in the production of from and but that in our system, the reverse reaction is favored to happen. This means that that reverse rate constant exceeds the forward one, let’s say by a lot:

so...