Articles | Volume 20, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-1183-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-1183-2020
Research article
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31 Jan 2020
Research article |  | 31 Jan 2020

Peroxy radical chemistry and the volatility basis set

Meredith Schervish and Neil M. Donahue

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Gas-phase autoxidation of organics can generate highly oxygenated organic molecules (HOMs) and thus increase secondary organic aerosol production and enable new-particle formation. Here we explicitly represent the generation of HOMs via peroxy radical chemistry and resolve the products based on volatility and O : C. Using experimentally constrained assumptions about autoxidation and dimerization reactions, we see suppression of HOM formation under low-temperature and high-NOx conditions.
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