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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2017 Nov 29;139(49):17945–17952. doi: 10.1021/jacs.7b08938

Figure 5. Relationship between the activation energy and the binding free energy.

Figure 5

(a) Hypothetical scenarios to reduce ΔGon: destabilizing the noncovalent-bound state and stabilizing the covalent-bound state. The green curve represents the free energy profile of a common core structure. The orange curve represents the free energy profile of an individual ligand. (b) The two-state potential surfaces are represented by two parabolas with different shapes.