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Importance of intermediate states

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An enzyme may alter the reaction pathway to one that includes one or more intermediate states that resemble the transition state but have a lower free energy.

In the case of a single intermediate, the activation energies for formation of the intermediate state and for conversion of the intermediate to product are lower than the activation energy for the uncatalyzed reaction.
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