NOUN
- the person (or institution) who accepts a check or draft and becomes responsible for paying the party named in the draft when it matures
- (chemistry) in the formation of a coordinate bond it is the compound to which electrons are donated
How To Use acceptor In A Sentence
- The glow of the firefly, which is due to the oxidation of the molecule luciferin, with the enzyme luciferase acting as a catalyst in the oxidation process and oxygen acting as the electron acceptor, is an example of bioluminescence.
- Fluorescence is detected using an emission path image splitter, outfitted with polarizers, that detects the donor fluorescence as well as two polarizations of the acceptor fluorescence.
- The exact enumeration of the populations is further complicated by the possible modification of both donor and acceptor molecules.
- The results support the idea that the strength of hydrogen bonding reflects the magnitude of the charges on the associated proton donor and acceptor atoms.
- Aldols are bifunctional molecules possessing OH and C=O groups, which are able to act as both hydrogen donors and/or acceptors.
- Strikingly, reaction centers appear to use that same solution not only for electrons but also for proton transfer toward their secondary ubiquinone acceptor site.
- We have also carried out measurements with mixtures of water and acetonitrile, a solvent that is a hydrogen bond acceptor.
- Resonance energy transfer efficiency is strongly affected by changes in the donor-acceptor distance on the order of a typical globular protein.
- The application of the donor - acceptor interaction between neutral aromatic subunits in supramolecular construction is reviewed.
- Such measurements should be independent of the local concentrations of donor and acceptor molecules.
