ISSN:
0538-8066
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Physical Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Dark-phase experiments between isoprene and O3 are discussed. UNC outdoor chamber experiments have shown that in high-concentration systems of isoprene and O3 (5 ppm C and 1 ppm) approximately 75% of the reacted carbon can be observed in the product formation of HCHO, CO, methacrolein, methylvinylketone, methylglyoxal, acetaldehyde, and propylene. Mechanisms were developed which gave reasonable fits to dark-phase chamber experiments of MACR, MVK, isoprene, and O3. Experimental data and modeling results were used to generate O3 rates of attack on MVK and MACR. An isoprene-O3 rate of 1.67 × 10-2 ppm-1·min-1 was used and is consistent with other rates reported in the literature. Dark isoprene-O3 systems appear to form homogeneously nucleated aerosol. Most of these particles appear and remain at diameters well below the optical cutoff region (0.3-0.5 μm), as opposed to the particles from similar α-pinene-O3 systems, which also form at smaller sizes but then grow into the optical size range (0.5 μm). Lower concentrations of α-pinene and O3 (0.2 ppm C and 0.12 ppm) still generated substantial aerosol, but by comparison, rapid CN nucleation was not observed during a similar side-by-side system of isoprene and O3.
Additional Material:
10 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/kin.550140902
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