Catalytic effect of water on the CH3OH + OH reaction under quasi-real atmospheric conditions

TACCONE, RAÚL; HERNÁNDEZ, FEDERICO; PINO, GUSTAVO; JARA TORO, RAFAEL ALEJANDRO; LANE, SILVIA

York

Simposio; 24th International Symposium on Gas Kinetics and Related Phenomena; 2016

The Royal Society of Chemistry

The effect of water in the atmospheric chemistry is of great importance. Recent, experimental and theoretical works have suggested that at low temperature one water molecule is enough to catalyze reactions of the OH radical with several Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), through the formation a H-bonded complex between the OH, the VOC and the H2O molecule. However, this effect has not been evidenced at room temperature, yet, due to the very low concentration of these complexes under atmospheric conditions.