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ACS Earth Space Chem

Title:		NO(2) Suppression of Autoxidation-Inhibition of Gas-Phase Highly Oxidized Dimer Product Formation
Author(s):		Rissanen MP;
Address:		"Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland"
Journal Title:		ACS Earth Space Chem
Year:		2018
Volume:		20181012
Issue:		11
Page Number:		1211 - 1219
DOI:		10.1021/acsearthspacechem.8b00123
ISSN/ISBN:		2472-3452 (Print) 2472-3452 (Electronic)
Abstract:		"Atmospheric autoxidation of volatile organic compounds (VOC) leads to prompt formation of highly oxidized multifunctional compounds (HOM) that have been found crucial in forming ambient secondary organic aerosol (SOA). As a radical chain reaction mediated by oxidized peroxy (RO(2)) and alkoxy (RO) radical intermediates, the formation pathways can be intercepted by suitable reaction partners, preventing the production of the highest oxidized reaction products, and thus the formation of the most condensable material. Commonly, NO is expected to have a detrimental effect on RO(2) chemistry, and thus on autoxidation, whereas the influence of NO(2) is mostly neglected. Here it is shown by dedicated flow tube experiments, how high concentration of NO(2) suppresses cyclohexene ozonolysis initiated autoxidation chain reaction. Importantly, the addition of NO(2) ceases covalently bound dimer production, indicating their production involving acylperoxy radical (RC(O)OO*) intermediates. In related experiments NO was also shown to strongly suppress the highly oxidized product formation, but due to possibility for chain propagating reactions (as with RO(2) and HO(2) too), the suppression is not as absolute as with NO(2). Furthermore, it is shown how NO (x) reactions with oxidized peroxy radicals lead into indistinguishable product compositions, complicating mass spectral assignments in any RO(2) + NO (x) system. The present work was conducted with atmospheric pressure chemical ionization mass spectrometry (CIMS) as the detection method for the highly oxidized end-products and peroxy radical intermediates, under ambient conditions and at short few second reaction times. Specifically, the insight was gained by addition of a large amount of NO(2) (and NO) to the oxidation system, upon which acylperoxy radicals reacted in RC(O)O(2) + NO(2) --> RC(O)O(2)NO(2) reaction to form peroxyacylnitrates, consequently shutting down the oxidation sequence"
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Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINERissanen, Matti P eng 2018/11/30 ACS Earth Space Chem. 2018 Nov 15; 2(11):1211-1219. doi: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.8b00123. Epub 2018 Oct 12"