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Product formation from the gas-phase reactions of OH radicals and O3 with a series of monoterpenes

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The formation yields of nine carbonyl products are reported from the gas-phase OH radical-initiated reactions (in the presence of NO x ) and the O3 reactions with seven monoterpenes. The products were identified using GC/MS and GC-FTIR and quantified by GC-FID analyses of samples collected on Tenax solid adsorbent cartridges. The identities of products from camphene, limonene and β-pinene were confirmed by comparison with authentic standards. Sufficient quantities of products from the 3-carene, limonene, α-pinene, sabinene and terpinolene reactions were isolated to allow structural confirmation by proton NMR spectroscopy. The measured total carbonyl formation yields ranged from non-detectable for the OH radical reaction with camphene and the O3 reactions with 3-carene and limonene to ∼0.5 for the OH radical reaction with limonene and the O3 reaction with sabinene.

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  1. Hannele Hakola (Visiting Scientist)

    Present address: Air Quality Department, Finnish Meteorological Institute, SF-00810, Helsinki, Finland

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    Hannele Hakola (Visiting Scientist), Janet Arey, Sara M. Aschmann & Roger Atkinson

  2. Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of California, 92521, Riverside, CA, USA

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Hakola, H., Arey, J., Aschmann, S.M. et al. Product formation from the gas-phase reactions of OH radicals and O3 with a series of monoterpenes. J Atmos Chem 18, 75–102 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00694375

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