Stories

After the two-generation study was published in 2001, the U.S. EPA published their draft recommendation in the Federcd Register (2003). This is known as a draft rule, which then goes out for public comment. Once comments are received, they reevaluate the draft, make appropriate chcmges, cmd then publish a final rule. In the final rule, the chemical is either approved as origiucdly petitioned, placed under restrictions if certain applications cu e found to have more risk than others, or the petition is denied and the use of the chemiccd is effectively ended. 

ERA S drcift rule summcirized the known toxicity of the chemical, and then went on to recommend cm occupatioucd exposure level, even though this is typically the jurisdiction of the U.S. Occupational Safety cmd Health Association (OSHA). The U.S. EPA reviewed the same studies as our collec ues, conducted a similar benchmark dose analysis, identified the Scime endpoint as the most sensitive, and calculated a benchmcirk dose of 169 ppm, remcirkably similar to ours. 

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Bold values represent recommended BMDL for each type of endpoint. 

In the draft ruling, the U.S. EPA summcirized the toxicity information on isopropyl-bromide and another similcu ly structured chemical, the pesticide dibromochloro-propane (DBCP), and used the greater toxicity of these chemiccds as one means to support the need for an uncertcunty factor to lower the value obtcuned for nPB using the benchmark dose method. 

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Flowever, if only the Darling-Deimison conplmg is important for the conpled stretches, what is its importance telling ns about the internal molecnlar motion It turns out that the right kind of analysis of the spectroscopic fitting Flamiltonian reveals a vast amonnt about the dynamics of the molecnle it allows ns to decipher the story encoded in the spectrum of what the molecule is really doing in its internal motion. We will approach this spectral cryptology from two complementary directions ... 

Spectroscopic detemiination of the HE rotational distribution is another story. In both the chemical laser and infrared chemiluminescence experiments, rotational relaxation due to collisions is faster or at least comparable to the time scale of the measurements, so that accurate detemiination of the nascent rotational distribution was not feasible. However, Nesbitt [40, 41] has recently carried out direct infrared absorption experiments on the HE product under single-collision conditions, thereby obtaining a fiill vibration-rotation distribution for the nascent products. 

Duffy L M, Keister J W and Baer T 1995 Isomerization and dissociation in competition. The pentene ion story J. Phys. Chem. 99 17 862-71... 

In this section, I present a few illustrative examples of applications of NMR relaxation studies within different branches of chemistry. The three subsections cover one story each, in order of increasing molecular size and complexity of the questions asked. 

Brey W S 1983 Applications of magnetic resonance in catalytic research Heterogeneous Catalysis Selected American Stories ed B FI Davis and W P Flettinger Jr (Washington American Chemical Society)... 

Even expression ( B3.4.31), altiiough numerically preferable, is not the end of the story as it does not fiilly account for the fact diat nearby classical trajectories (those with similar initial conditions) should be averaged over. One simple methodology for that averaging has been tln-ough the division of phase space into parts, each of which is covered by a set of Gaussians [159, 160]. This is done by recasting the initial wavefunction as... 

In 1971 the Protein Data Bank - PDB [146] (see Section 5.8 for a complete story and description) - was established at Brookhaven National Laboratories - BNL -as an archive for biological macromolccular cr7stal structures. This database moved in 1998 to the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics -RCSB. A key component in the creation of such a public archive of information was the development of a method for effreient and uniform capture and curation of the data [147], The result of the effort was the PDB file format [53], which evolved over time through several different and non-uniform versions. Nevertheless, the PDB file format has become the standard representation for exchanging inacromolecular information derived from X-ray diffraction and NMR studies, primarily for proteins and nucleic acids. In 1998 the database was moved to the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics - RCSB. 

To complete the story, when this molecule was heated an intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction did indeed take place to give a new fivemembered ring, (396A, n=3). 

Strike thinks you get the picture now. Do not try this method. How did the story end you ask Strike doesn t remember exactly. Strike thinks the kingdom was re-invaded by the forces of the neighboring Bee Keeper Empire. 

Shulgin, A.T., Shulgin, A., "Pihkal, A Chemical Love Story",... 

But inductive effects are only part of the story When nitric acid transfers its proton to water nitrate ion is produced... 

The question that began the fullerene story the possibility that carbon clusters are formed in stars moved closer to an answer in 2000 when a team... 

The November 1994 edition of the Journal of Chemical Education contains as its cover story the article Natural Organohalogens Many More Than You Think ... 

The chemistry of carboxylic acids is the central theme of this chapter The impor tance of carboxylic acids is magnified when we realize that they are the parent com pounds of a large group of derivatives that includes acyl chlorides acid anhydrides esters and amides Those classes of compounds will be discussed m Chapter 20 Together this chapter and the next tell the story of some of the most fundamental struc tural types and functional group transformations m organic and biological chemistry... 

How living systems convert acetate to fats is an exceedingly complex story one that IS well understood m broad outline and becoming increasingly clear m detail as well We will examine several aspects of this topic m the next few sections focusing mostly on Its structural and chemical features... 

The amount of sample required is quite small as little as 10 mole is typical So many peptides and proteins have been sequenced now that it is impossible to give an accurate count What was Nobel Prize winning work m 1958 is routine today Nor has the story ended Sequencing of nucleic acids has advanced so dramatically that it is possible to clone the gene that codes for a particular protein sequence its DNA and deduce the structure of the protein from the nucleotide sequence of the DNA We 11 have more to say about DNA sequencing m the next chapter... 

We shall take up the kinetics of crystallization in detail in Secs. 4.5 and 4.6. For the present, our only interest is in examining what role kinetic factors play in complicating the crystal-liquid transition. In brief, the story goes like this. Polymers have a great propensity to supercool. If and when they do crystallize, it is an experimental fact that smaller crystal dimensions are obtained the lower the temperature at which the crystallization is carried out. The following considerations supply some additional details ... 

The three-step mechanism for free-radical polymerization represented by reactions (6.A)-(6.C) does not tell the whole story. Another type of free-radical reaction, called chain transfer, may also occur. This is unfortunate in the sense that it complicates the neat picture presented until now. On the other hand, this additional reaction can be turned into an asset in actual polymer practice. One of the consequences of chain transfer reactions is a lowering of the kinetic chain length and hence the molecular weight of the polymer without necessarily affecting the rate of polymerization. 

A similar logic can be applied to copolymers. The story is a bit more complicated to tell, so we only outline the method. If penultimate effects operate, then the probabilities Ph, Pi2> and so on, defined by Eqs. (7.32)-(7.35) should be replaced by conditional probabilities. As a matter of fact, the kind of conditional probabilities needed must be based on the two preceding events. Thus reactions (7.E) and (7.F) are two of the appropriate reactions, and the corresponding probabilities are Pj n and V i2 - Rather than work out all of the possibilities in detail, we summarize the penultimate model as follows ... 

The iavention of the laser ia 1958 prompted the beginning of the story of optical fiber communications. This device was capable of produciag a high iatensity, coherent beam of light which could be modulated at a high rate (see Lasers). StiU, no transmission medium of suitable clarity was available. 

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