“…Chelates V or VI, with lba bound to Cr VI as a tridentate ligand, with one alcoholate group of the gal moiety as the third O-donor site of the ligand, could also form and behave as precursor of the slow electron transfer steps. In the case of lactose, this additional coordination site was found to have an stabilizing effect on the Cr VI intermediate resulting in a redox rate slower than for glucose [26] step 9, k 2 , is 5-times slower than found for glca, could be attributed to the gal stabilization effect. After the slow redox step, Cr IV is predicted to react with excess lba to yield Cr III and an lba radical or Cr II and 2klba through two alternative fast steps (Eqs.…”