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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 22, Issue 18, Pages 10170-10178Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0cp00297f
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- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant [674911]
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Glyoxal (C2H2O2) is a highly reactive molecule present at trace levels in specific gaseous environments. For analyses by chemical ionization mass spectrometry, it is important to understand the gas-phase chemistry initiated by reactions of H3O+ ions with C2H2O2 molecules in the presence of water vapour. This chemistry was studied at variable humidity using a selected ion flow tube, SIFT. The initial step is a proton transfer reaction forming protonated glyoxal C2H3O2+. The second step, in the presence of water vapour, is the association forming C2H3O2+(H2O) and interestingly also protonated formaldehyde CH2OH+. Hydrated protonated formaldehyde CH2OH+(H2O) was also observed. Relative signals of these four ionic products were studied at the end of the flow tube where the reactions took place during 0.3 ms in helium carrier gas (1.5 mbar, 300 K) as the water vapour number density varied up to 10(14) cm(-3). The data were interpreted using numerical kinetics modelling of the reaction sequences and the mechanisms and kinetics of the reaction steps were characterised. The results thus facilitate SIFT-MS analyses of glyoxal in humid air whilst drawing attention to ion overlaps with formaldehyde products.
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