INVESTIGADORES
TERUEL Mariano Andres
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Gas phase mechanisms of unsaturated carbonyls initiated by O3 reactions?.
Autor/es:
ELIZABETH GAONA COLMÁN, MARÍA B. BLANCO, IAN BARNES AND MARIANO A. TERUEL
Lugar:
California
Reunión:
Congreso; Atmospheric Chemical Mechanisms; 2012
Resumen:
Unsaturated ketones, aldehydes and esters are carbonyl
volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released to the atmosphere by a variety of anthropogenic
and biogenic sources such as the industry and vegetation.
The O3 -initiated atmospheric
degradation of these unsaturated VOCs in polluted areas is expected to result
in the formation of mainly acids, aldehydes, anhydrides and other dicarbonyls compounds
which will be subject to further reaction with oxidants like OH radicals and
also photolysis. Thus, the
high reactivity of these unsaturated compounds and also their primary products
implies they will be contributors to the photochemical smog formation and
secondary organic aerosol formation (SOA) in the atmosphere, if emitted in
large quantities.
In this work
we report a gas-phase product study of the reactions of O3 molecules
with 6-metil-5-hepten-2-one, 2-metil-2-pentenal and ethyl crotonate. The
experiments were performed in a 480
L glass chamber in synthetic air at 298 K and 760 Torr using
long path in situ FTIR spectroscopy
for the analysis of the reactants and products.
The
major products observed in the 6-metil-5-hepten-2-one with O3 reaction were acetone, 4-oxopentanal
and and methyl glyoxal.
Propanal
and methyl glyoxal were observed in the reaction of O3 with 2-metil-2-pentenal and ethyl glyoxylate and acetaldehyde were determined as products
for the reactions of ethyl crotonate with O3.
The
results are used to postulate atmospheric chemical mechanisms which can be
incorporated into chemistry transport models to obtain estimations of the
contributions of emissions of such compounds to ozone and other photooxidant
formation in the troposphere.