| Title: | Interfacial photochemistry of marine diatom lipids: Abiotic production of volatile organic compounds and new particle formation |
| Author(s): | Penezic A; Wang X; Perrier S; George C; Frka S; |
| Address: | "Division for Marine and Environmental Research, Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia. Electronic address: abra@irb.hr. Universite Lyon, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 CNRS, IRCELYON, Villeurbanne, France; Now at Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697-2025, USA. Universite Lyon, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 CNRS, IRCELYON, Villeurbanne, France. Division for Marine and Environmental Research, Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia. Electronic address: frka@irb.hr" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.137510 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1879-1298 (Electronic) 0045-6535 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "The global importance of abiotic oceanic production of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) still presents a source of high uncertainties related to secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation. A better understanding of the photochemistry occurring at the ocean-atmosphere interface is particularly important in that regard, as it covers >70% of the Earth's surface. In this work, we focused on the photochemical VOCs production at the air-water interface containing organic material from authentic culture of marine diatom Chaetoceros pseudocurvisetus. Abiotic VOCs production upon irradiation of material originating from total phytoplankton culture as well as the fraction containing only dissolved material was monitored by means of PTR-ToF-MS. Furthermore, isolated dissolved lipid fraction was investigated after its deposition at the air-water interface. All samples acted as a source of VOCs, producing saturated oxygenated compounds such as aldehydes and ketones, as well as unsaturated and functionalized compounds. Additionally, a significant increase in surfactant activity following irradiation experiments observed for all samples implied biogenic material photo-transformation at the air-water interface. The highest VOCs flux normalized per gram of carbon originated from lipid material, and the produced VOCs were introduced into an atmospheric simulation chamber, where particle formation was observed after its gas-phase ozonolysis. This work clearly demonstrates abiotic production of VOCs from phytoplankton derived organic material upon irradiation, facilitated by its presence at the air/water interface, with significant potential for affecting the global climate as a precursor of particle formation" |
| Keywords: | *Volatile Organic Compounds/analysis *Diatoms Atmosphere/chemistry Water Aerosols/analysis Lipids *Air Pollutants/analysis Abiotic VOCs production Biogenic lipids New particle formation Ocean-atmosphere interface Sphytoplankton; |
| Notes: | "MedlinePenezic, Abra Wang, Xinke Perrier, Sebastien George, Christian Frka, Sanja eng England 2022/12/11 Chemosphere. 2023 Feb; 313:137510. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.137510. Epub 2022 Dec 8" |
