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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-13541-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-13541-2020
Research article
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13 Nov 2020
Research article |  | 13 Nov 2020

Reaction between CH3C(O)OOH (peracetic acid) and OH in the gas phase: a combined experimental and theoretical study of the kinetics and mechanism

Matias Berasategui, Damien Amedro, Luc Vereecken, Jos Lelieveld, and John N. Crowley

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Peracetic acid is one of the most abundant organic peroxides in the atmosphere. We combine experiments and theory to show that peracetic acid reacts orders of magnitude more slowly with OH than presently accepted, which results in a significant extension of its atmospheric lifetime.
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