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Oxidation Of Phenolic Aldehydes By Ozone And Hydroxyl Radicals At The Air-Water Interface, Md Sohel Rana, Marcelo I. Guzman
Oxidation Of Phenolic Aldehydes By Ozone And Hydroxyl Radicals At The Air-Water Interface, Md Sohel Rana, Marcelo I. Guzman
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Biomass burning releases highly reactive methoxyphenols into the atmosphere, which can undergo heterogeneous oxidation and act as precursors for secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation. Understanding the reactivity of such methoxyphenols at the air–water interface is a matter of major atmospheric interest. Online electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (OESI-MS) is used here to study the oxidation of two methoxyphenols among three phenolic aldehydes, 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde, vanillin, and syringaldehyde, on the surface of water. The OESI-MS results together with cyclic voltammetry measurements at variable pH are integrated into a mechanism describing the heterogeneous oxidative processing of methoxyphenols by gaseous ozone (O3) and …