Abstract
The tunneling transfer of electrons between two sites, appropriate to biological intermolecular electron transfer, contains physical considerations which are not important in the tunneling transfer between two metals. Analyses (such as the recent one by Hales) based on the well-known formula for the latter but applied to the former case are quantitatively and qualitatively misleading.
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