{"term":{"id":"06086","title":"successor complex","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - successor complex","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.S06086","code":"S06086","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"The radical ion pair which forms by the transfer of an electron from the donor D to the acceptor A after these species have diffused together to form the precursor or encounter complex: \\[\\rm{A}+\\rm{D}\\rightarrow (\\rm{A D})\\rightarrow (\\rm{A}^{\\cdot - }\\rm{D}^{\\cdot +})\\]","links":[{"term":"encounter complex","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/E02087"},{"term":"radical ion","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/R05073"}],"sources":["PAC, 1994, 66, 1077. 'Glossary of terms used in physical organic chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1994)' on page 1169 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac199466051077)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/S06086\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/S06086\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/S06086\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'successor complex' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.S06086","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-07-26T19:38:29+00:00"}}