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Specialty Chemistry Forums => Biochemistry and Chemical Biology Forum => Topic started by: Nescafe on October 25, 2012, 02:14:22 PM

Title: Hydrophobic v.s. solvophobic effect?
Post by: Nescafe on October 25, 2012, 02:14:22 PM

Hi,

What? I read about these two and they seem to be the same thing yet they are not?

:S

Nescafe.

Title: Re: Hydrophobic v.s. solvophobic effect?
Post by: Babcock_Hall on October 26, 2012, 12:56:29 PM

I am unfamiliar with this term.  However, a high concentration of glycerol stabilizes some proteins by preferential exclusion.  Could this be the same thing?