Articles | Volume 21, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-4915-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-4915-2021
Research article
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30 Mar 2021
Research article |  | 30 Mar 2021

On the importance of atmospheric loss of organic nitrates by aqueous-phase OH oxidation

Juan Miguel González-Sánchez, Nicolas Brun, Junteng Wu, Julien Morin, Brice Temime-Roussel, Sylvain Ravier, Camille Mouchel-Vallon, Jean-Louis Clément, and Anne Monod

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Organic nitrates play a crucial role in air pollution as they are considered NOx reservoirs. This work lights up the importance of their reactions with OH radicals in the aqueous phase (cloud/fog, wet aerosol), which is slower than in the gas phase. For compounds that significantly partition in water such as polyfunctional biogenic nitrates, these aqueous-phase reactions should drive their atmospheric removal, leading to a broader spatial distribution of NOx than previously accounted for.
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