page_title: Hill reaction
hierarchical_section_title: Hill reaction
caption_attribution_description: Plagiomnium affine, Laminazellen, Rostock
context_page_description: The Hill reaction is the light-driven transfer of electrons from water to Hill reagents in a direction against the chemical potential gradient as part of photosynthesis. Robin Hill discovered the reaction in 1937. He demonstrated that the process by which plants produce oxygen is separate from the process that converts carbon dioxide to sugars.
context_section_description: The Hill reaction is the light-driven transfer of electrons from water to Hill reagents (non-physiological oxidants) in a direction against the chemical potential gradient as part of photosynthesis. Robin Hill discovered the reaction  in 1937. He demonstrated that the process by which plants produce oxygen is separate from the process that converts carbon dioxide to sugars.
caption: Plant cells with visible chloroplasts (from a moss, Plagiomnium affine)
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