Research article
21 Jan 2011
Research article | 21 Jan 2011
Solid state and sub-cooled liquid vapour pressures of cyclic aliphatic dicarboxylic acids
A. M. Booth1, W. J. Montague2, M. H. Barley1, D. O. Topping1, G. McFiggans1, A. Garforth3, and C. J. Percival1
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A. M. Booth1, W. J. Montague2, M. H. Barley1, D. O. Topping1, G. McFiggans1, A. Garforth3, and C. J. Percival1
- 1School of Earth, Environmental and Atmospheric Science, University of Manchester, UK
- 2School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, UK
- 3School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, University of Manchester, UK
- 1School of Earth, Environmental and Atmospheric Science, University of Manchester, UK
- 2School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, UK
- 3School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, University of Manchester, UK
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Received: 19 Aug 2010 – Discussion started: 06 Oct 2010 – Revised: 13 Jan 2011 – Accepted: 17 Jan 2011 – Published: 21 Jan 2011
Knudsen Effusion Mass Spectrometry (KEMS) has been used to measure for the first time the solid state vapour pressures of a series of aliphatic cyclic dicarboxylic acids with increasing ring size. Additionally the atmospherically important compounds; cis-pinonic acid and levoglucosan were also measured. Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) was used to measure melting points, enthalpies and entropies of fusion, which were used to determine sub-cooled liquid vapour pressures for the compounds. The sub-cooled liquid vapour pressure of straight chain, branched and cyclic dicarboxylic acids was compared to a selection of estimation methods.
