Chapter 10, Problem 84E

Cells use the hydrolysis of adenosine triphosphate, abbreviatedATP, as a source of energy. Symbolically, thisreaction can be represented as
$\text{ATP(}aq{\text{)+H}}_{\text{2}}\text{O(}l\text{)}\to \text{ADP(}aq{\text{)+H}}_{\text{2}}{\text{PO}}_{\text{4}}{}^{\text{–}}\text{(}aq\text{)}$
where ADP represents adenosine diphosphate. For thisreaction $\Delta G\text{°=-30}\text{.5 kJ/mol}$ .
a. Calculate K at 25°C.
b. If all the free energy from the metabolism of glucose
${\text{C}}_{\text{6}}{\text{H}}_{\text{12}}{\text{O}}_{\text{6}}\text{(}s{\text{)+6O}}_{\text{2}}\text{(}g\text{)}\to {\text{6CO}}_{\text{2}}\text{(}g{\text{)+6H}}_{\text{2}}\text{O(}l\text{)}$
goes into the production of ATP, how many ATPmolecules can be produced for every molecule ofglucose?