A Four Carbon Organonitrate as a Significant Product of Secondary Isoprene Chemistry

Epameinondas Tsiligiannis; Rongrong Wu; Ben H. Lee; Christian Mark Salvador; Michael Priestley; Philip T. M. Carlsson; Sungah Kang; Anna Novelli; Luc Vereecken; Hendrik Fuchs; Alfred W. Mayhew; Jacqueline F. Hamilton; Peter M. Edwards; Juliane L. Fry; Bellamy Brownwood; Steven S. Brown; Robert J. Wild; Thomas J. Bannan; Hugh Coe; James Allan; Jason D. Surratt; Asan Bacak; Paul Artaxo; Carl Percival; Song Guo; Min Hu; Tao Wang; Thomas F. Mentel; Joel A. Thornton; Mattias Hallquist

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A Four Carbon Organonitrate as a Significant Product of Secondary Isoprene Chemistry

Epameinondas Tsiligiannis, Rongrong Wu, Ben H. Lee, Christian Mark Salvador, Michael Priestley, Philip T. M. Carlsson, Sungah Kang, Anna Novelli, Luc Vereecken, Hendrik Fuchs, Alfred W. Mayhew, Jacqueline F. Hamilton, Peter M. Edwards, Juliane L. Fry, Bellamy Brownwood, Steven S. Brown, Robert J. Wild, Thomas J. Bannan, Hugh Coe, James AllanJason D. Surratt, Asan Bacak, Paul Artaxo, Carl Percival, Song Guo, Min Hu, Tao Wang, Thomas F. Mentel, Joel A. Thornton, Mattias Hallquist

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Abstract Oxidation of isoprene by nitrate radicals (NO3) or by hydroxyl radicals (OH) under high NOx conditions forms a substantial amount of organonitrates (ONs). ONs impact NOx concentrations and consequently ozone formation while also contributing to secondary organic aerosol. Here we show that the ONs with the chemical formula C4H7NO5 are a significant fraction of isoprene-derived ONs, based on chamber experiments and ambient measurements from different sites around the globe. From chamber experiments we found that C4H7NO5 isomers contribute 5%?17% of all measured ONs formed during nighttime and constitute more than 40% of the measured ONs after further daytime oxidation. In ambient measurements C4H7NO5 isomers usually dominate both nighttime and daytime, implying a long residence time compared to C5 ONs which are removed more rapidly. We propose potential nighttime sources and secondary formation pathways, and test them using a box model with an updated isoprene oxidation scheme.

Original language	English
Article number	e2021GL097366
Number of pages	12
Journal	Geophysical Research Letters
Volume	49
Issue number	11
Early online date	26 May 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL097366
Publication status	Published - 16 Jun 2022

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organonitrate
isoprene
VOC oxidation
atmospheric chamber

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Using the complexity of organic aerosols to understand their formation, ageing of transformation in three contrasting megacities
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Tsiligiannis, E., Wu, R., Lee, B. H., Salvador, C. M., Priestley, M., Carlsson, P. T. M., Kang, S., Novelli, A., Vereecken, L., Fuchs, H., Mayhew, A. W., Hamilton, J. F., Edwards, P. M., Fry, J. L., Brownwood, B., Brown, S. S., Wild, R. J., Bannan, T. J., Coe, H., ... Hallquist, M. (2022). A Four Carbon Organonitrate as a Significant Product of Secondary Isoprene Chemistry. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(11), Article e2021GL097366. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL097366

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A Four Carbon Organonitrate as a Significant Product of Secondary Isoprene Chemistry

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