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COMPUTERIZED EXTRAPOLATION OF HYDROLYSIS RATE DATA
Citation:
Hamrick, K., H. Kollig, AND B. Bartell. COMPUTERIZED EXTRAPOLATION OF HYDROLYSIS RATE DATA. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/J-93/028 (NTIS PB93156321), 1992.
Description:
The program RATE was developed to aid in the extrapolation and interpretation of hydrolysis rate data to a format that is useful for environmental risk assessment. ydrolysis data typically are reported in the literature as pseudo-first-order rate constants at the temperature and pH of the reaction medium used to obtain the kinetics information. he utility of RATE lies in its ability to estimate first-order rate constants at other values of temperature and pH and to convert pseudo-first-order rate constants to second-order rate constants. ATE also will calculate the half-life for the overall reaction, including neutral-, base-, and acid-mediated hydrolysis, at any selected temperature and pH. ATE, programmed in FORTRAN, is used to systematically analyze data for entry in FATE, a comprehensive environmental fate constants information system database.
