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### WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE

Katal
Unit system SI derived unit
Unit of catalysis
Symbol kat
In SI base units: mol/s

The katal (symbol: kat) is the SI unit of catalytic activity.[1] It is a derived SI unit for quantifying the catalytic activity of enzymes (measuring the enzymatic activity level in enzyme catalysis) and other catalysts. Its use is recommended by the General Conference on Weights and Measures and other international organizations. It replaces the non-SI enzyme unit. Enzyme units are, however, still more commonly used than the katal in practice at present, especially in biochemistry.

The katal is not used to express the rate of a reaction; that is expressed in units of concentration per second (or moles per liter per second). Rather, it is used to express catalytic activity which is a property of the catalyst. The katal is invariant of the measurement procedure, but the numerical quantity value is not and depends on the experimental conditions. Therefore, in order to define the quantity of a catalyst, the rate of conversion of a defined chemical reaction is specified as mols reacted per second. One katal of trypsin, for example, is that amount of trypsin which breaks a mole of peptide bonds per second under specified conditions.

## Definition

${\displaystyle {\text{kat}}={\frac {\text{mol}}{\text{s}}}}$

## SI multiples

Submultiples Multiples Value SI symbol Name Value 10−1 kat dkat decikatal 101 kat dakat decakatal 10−2 kat ckat centikatal 102 kat hkat hectokatal 10−3 kat mkat millikatal 103 kat kkat kilokatal 10−6 kat µkat microkatal 106 kat Mkat megakatal 10−9 kat nkat nanokatal 109 kat Gkat gigakatal 10−12 kat pkat picokatal 1012 kat Tkat terakatal 10−15 kat fkat femtokatal 1015 kat Pkat petakatal 10−18 kat akat attokatal 1018 kat Ekat exakatal 10−21 kat zkat zeptokatal 1021 kat Zkat zettakatal 10−24 kat ykat yoctokatal 1024 kat Ykat yottakatal

## Origin

The name "katal" has been used for decades, and the unit became an official SI unit in 1999. The name comes from the Ancient Greek κατάλυσις (katalysis or katalusis), meaning "dissolution",[2] which is the same origin as the word "catalysis" itself comes from.[2]

## References

1. ^ Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry (NC-IUB) (1979). "Units of Enzyme Activity". Eur. J. Biochem. 97 (2): 319–20. doi:10.1111/j.1432-1033.1979.tb13116.x.
2. ^ a b Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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