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ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Volume 14, Issue 17, Pages 8933-8946Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-8933-2014
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- National Science Foundation [1153861]
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1153861] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Isoprene, the most abundant non-methane volatile organic compound (VOC) emitted into the atmosphere, is known to undergo gas phase oxidation to form eight different hydroxynitrate isomers in high-NOx environments. These hydroxynitrates are known to affect the global and regional formation of ozone and secondary organic aerosol (SOA), as well as affect the distribution of nitrogen. In the present study, we have synthesized three of the eight possible hydroxynitrates: 4-hydroxy-3-nitroxy isoprene (4,3-HNI) and E /Z-1-hydroxy-4-nitroxy isoprene (1,4-HNI). Oxidation of the 4,3-HNI isomer by the OH radical was monitored using a flow tube chemical ionization mass spectrometer (FT-CIMS), and its OH rate constant was determined to be (3.64 +/- 0.41) x 10(-11) cm(3) molecule(-1) s(-1). The products of 4,3-HNI oxidation were monitored, and a mechanism to explain the products was developed. An isoprene epoxide (IEPOX) - a species important in SOA chemistry and thought to originate only from low-NOx isoprene oxidation - was found as a minor, but significant, product. Additionally, hydrolysis kinetics of the three synthesized isomers were monitored with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). The bulk, neutral solution hydrolysis rate constants for 4,3-HNI and the 1,4-HNI isomers were (1.59 +/- 0.03) x 10(-5) s(-1) and (6.76 +/- 0.09) x 10(-3) s(-1), respectively. The hydrolysis reactions of each isomer were found to be general acid-catalyzed. The reaction pathways, product yields and atmospheric implications for both the gas phase and aerosol phase reactions are discussed.
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