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 | | NADH is a two-electron donor, while FADH2 can donate its two electrons one at a time or it can donate both simultaneously. |
 | | FADH2 can form a hydroperoxide adduct, which in turn can do chemistry very similar to peracids commonly used in the laboratory for peroxidation and ester formation from ketones. |
 | | Finally, NADH is more reducing than FADH2, so often there is an electron-transfer chain, where two electrons from NADH (or its 3'-phosphorylated analog, NADPH) are used to reduce FAD to FADH2 and this, in turn, reduces a one-electron acceptor (such as Fe3+ in an iron-containing enzyme). |
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