Talk:Reducing equivalent

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 10 April 2019 and 14 June 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Isaguti. Peer reviewers: Kayladanesh.

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Plan for Expanding Article
Hello everyone, I have decided to expand this article and would greatly appreciate your feedback during the process. Right now I see that the article provides a brief definition and introduction of the topic, followed by a few examples. I think it would be helpful to expand the introduction by explaining the role of reducing equivalent in a redox reaction. I would also like to provide more information for each of the examples for a reducing equivalent: lone electrons, hydrides, hydrogen atoms, and bond formation with an oxygen atom. I think it would be helpful to provide a brief explanation regarding how each example can act as a reducing equivalent, along with a reaction demonstrating the transfer of electrons for that specific example. Lastly, I would like to add a subsection regarding the importance of reducing equivalents in biochemistry, such as the role of reducing equivalents in the mitochondria respiratory chain. Please let me know if you have any thoughts or suggestions!

Merge proposal
I suggest that we merge this article into Reducing agent (Redox). The concept of a reducing equivalent is useful, but all the manifestations seem really to be more appropriate for other articles. --Smokefoot (talk) 14:33, 3 May 2022 (UTC)


 * I disagree with this proposal: in biochemistry, a reducing equivalent is a quantity of reducing potential, and the topic is notable and big enough to warrant discussing it in a separate article. Let's also consider our readers' requirements: a student who sees the term "reducing equivalent" would want to be able to look it up in Wikipedia and get a definition and some examples. --Slashme (talk) 09:20, 4 May 2022 (UTC)