Successor transfer

Up to now, the members of the CRC IMPROVE or its successor Transfer Center have produced about 485 publications, most of them reviewed, which are related to the topic of this book. 

See Chapter 15, Acquisitions and Divestitures, for a discussion of successor transfer of... 

Prior to May 30,1995 a polymer exemption required EPA approval, and if the successor company wants to rely on a polymer exemption that was explicitly approved, instead of relying on the current automatic exemptions, then it will have to file a successor transfer form. A successor should review an older polymer exemption to determine if it confers any advantages not available under the current automatic exemption. The current polymer exemption requires entities that rely on it to file a report by January 31 of each year providing information on each polymer that it has manufactured or imported for the first time during the previous calendar year. To be prudent, successor companies should include in that report all of the polymers that it has made for the first time instead of relying on the reports filed by the predecessor company. 

None of these successor transfer notices should be required if the transaction is structured as a stock transfer as a matter of corporate law. In that situation, the new entity is by operation of law the successor to the corporation that obtained the exemption from the PMN requirements and should be entitled to continue to rely on the exemption. However, the EPA states on its... 

Fed. Reg. 44991 (Aug. 1, 2008) Interim Approach to Applying the Audit Pohcy to New Owners 73 FR 44991 Audit New Owners 8-1-08 Successor transfer forms for ... 

Successor transfer forms for transferring LVEs, LoREX, 5(e) consent orders and polymer exemptions dated before May 30, 1995 are available on the EPA Web site through http //www.epa.gov/oppt/newchems/pubs/ succesor.htm... 

Inner-sphere. Here, the two reactants first form a bridged complex (precursor)- intramolecular electron transfer then yields the successor which in turn dissociates to give the products. The first demonstration of this was provided by H. Taube. He examined the oxidation of ICrfHoOijj by lCoCl(NHr)< and postulated that it occurs as follows ... 

The sequence of reactions (58) and (59) corresponds to the mechanism proposed for chain transfer with benzene (see p. 142, footnote). The experimental result of Price and Read does not, however, rule out the possibility that the inhibitor radical (e.g., IV, or a possible successor formed by intramolecular rearrangement) may occasionally add monomer, thus giving rise to limited copolymerization of the retarder. 

If a test facility or an archive contracting facility goes out of business and has no legal successor, the archive should be transferred to the archives of the sponsor of the regulatory study. 

Gibbs energy of electron transfer (AGe ) and the work terms for precursor formation (Wp) and successor dissociation (ws),... 

Rates of reductive dissolution of transition metal oxide/hydroxide minerals are controlled by rates of surface chemical reactions under most conditions of environmental and geochemical interest. This paper examines the mechanisms of reductive dissolution through a discussion of relevant elementary reaction processes. Reductive dissolution occurs via (i) surface precursor complex formation between reductant molecules and oxide surface sites, (ii) electron transfer within this surface complex, and (iii) breakdown of the successor complex and release of dissolved metal ions. Surface speciation is an important determinant of rates of individual surface chemical reactions and overall rates of reductive dissolution. 

Similarly, inner-sphere and outer-sphere mechanisms can be postulated for the reductive dissolution of metal oxide surface sites, as shown in Figure 2. Precursor complex formation, electron transfer, and breakdown of the successor complex can still be distinguished. The surface chemical reaction is unique, however, in that participating metal centers are bound within an oxide/hydroxide... 

Figure 1. Potential energy plot of the reactants (precursor complex) and products (successor complex) as a function of nuclear configuration Eth is the barrier for the thermal electron transfer, Eop is the energy for the light-induced electron transfer, and 2HAB is equal to the splitting at the intersection of the surfaces, where HAB is the electronic coupling matrix element. Note that HAB << Eth in the classical model. The circles indicate the relative nuclear configurations of the two reactants of charges +2 and +5 in the precursor complex, optically excited precursor complex, activated complex, and successor complex.

The standard formalisms for describing ET processes assume that in reactions such as Eqs. (1) and (2) there is but a single stable conformational form for each of the precursor and successor electron-transfer states. However, for a system that displays two (or more) alternative stable conformations with different ET rates, dynamic conformational equilibrium can modulate the ET rates. Major protein conformational changes can occur at rates that are competitive with observed rates of ET [9], and such gating [10] may occur in non-rigid complexes such as that between zinc cytochrome c peroxidase (ZnCcP) and cytochrome c (see below) or even within cytochrome c [5]. 

Electron transfer was considered to occur at the intersection region S of the potential energy hypersurface and precursor (before electron transfer) and successor (after electron transfer) complexes, respectively. Both energy surfaces were evaluated using the potential function that was built up with an ab initio method. For each configuration, the parameter A = - Hpp was calculated. This parameter was used as... 

The product of intramolecular electron transfer within the precursor complex is the successor complex... 

Of course the Co CNHj) breaks down rapidly in acid into Co + and 5NHJ. Precursor complex formation, intramolecular electron transfer, or successor complex dissociation may severally be rate limiting. The associated reaction profiles are shown in Fig. 5.1. A variety of rate laws can arise from different rate-determining steps. A second-order rate law is common, but the second-order rate constant is probably composite. For example, (Fig. 5.1 (b)) if the observed redox rate constant is less than the substitution rate constant, as it is for many reactions of Cr +, Eu +, Cu+, Fe + and other ions, and if little precursor complex is formed, then = k k2kz ). In addition, the breakdown of the successor complex would have to be rapid k > k 2). This situation may even give rise to negative (= A//° +... 

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A ] represent the reorganized precursor and successor complexes involved in the electron transfer step. This scheme predicts that the observed activation energy will switch from a positive to a negative value if the relaxation of [D/A] back to [D/ A] has a larger temperature dependence than the reorganization of [D/A] to [D/A]. In the... 

Historically, the potential sweep technique and cyclic voltammetry were developed for analysis (as successors to polarography) and much of the theoretical development is concerned with the situation under conditions of diffusion control, for that is where the analytical applications are most readily made. In many of these approaches, the underlying assumption is that the electron transfer that must necessarily occur at the interface is a fast process and plays little part in determining the dependence of the observed current upon potential or upon the concentration of the reactant. However, these assumptions may not always apply. 

From Eq. 14-30 we see that we may divide a one-electron transfer into various steps (maybe somewhat artificially). First, a precursor complex (PR) has to be formed that is, the reactants have to meet and interact. Hence, electronic as well as steric factors determine the rate and extent at which this precursor complex formation occurs. Furthermore, in many cases, redox reactions take place at surfaces, and therefore, the sorption behavior of the compound may also be important for determining the rate of transformation. In the next step, the actual electron transfer between P and R occurs. The activation energy required to allow this electron transfer to happen depends strongly on the willingness of the two reactants to lose and gain, respectively, an electron. Finally, in the last steps of reaction sequence Eq. 14-30, a successor complex may be postulated which decays into the products. 

For an inner-sphere reaction there are necessarily more steps since both association and substitution must precede electron transfer. Intermediates like (H20)5CruClCoUI(NH3)54+ and (H20)5CrinClCoII(NH3)54 shown in Scheme 2 are often referred to as the precursor and successor complexes since they precede or follow the electron transfer step. 

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