Recent laboratory and field work has shown that isoprene-derived epoxides (IEPOX) are crucial intermediates that can explain the existence of a variety of compounds found in ambient secondary organic aerosol (SOA). However, IEPOX species are also able to undergo gas phase oxidation, which competes with the aerosol phase processing of IEPOX. In order to better quantify the atmospheric fate of IE...

One of the principal air pollutants is sulfur dioxide (SO2). The removal of SO2 from flue gas has been one of the key challenges in the control of SO2 emission. In this work, experimental scale photocatalytic oxidation of SO2 is a major process leading to H2SO4 as a new method was suggested on the Liquid ph...

[1] Isotopic studies indicate that natural perchlorate is produced on Earth in arid environments by the oxidation of chlorine species through pathways involving ozone or its photochemical products. With this analogy, we propose that the arid environment on Mars may have given rise to perchlorate through the action of atmospheric oxidants. A variety of hypothetical pathways can be proposed inclu...

Gas-phase plutonium nitrate anion complexes were produced by electrospray ionization (ESI) of a plutonium nitrate solution. The ESI mass spectrum included species with all four of the common oxidation states of plutonium: Pu(III), Pu(IV), Pu(V), and Pu(VI). Plutonium nitrate complexes were isolated in a quadrupole ion trap and subjected to collision-induced dissociation (CID). CID of complexes ...

Molybdenum containing catalysts are widely used for the selective oxidation of propene in the presence of gas phase oxygen at temperatures above ~600 K. Crystalline (Mo,V,W)5O14 constitutes a three-dimensional model system for the more complex molybdenum based mixed oxide catalysts that are employed industrially for various partial oxidation reactions [1]. However, little is known about the coo...

This review outlines several approaches for designing new and environmentally friendly heterogeneously catalyzed oxidation processes for the synthesis of fine and intermediate chemicals. Environmentally benign oxidants such as molecular oxygen, hydrogen peroxide or nitrous oxide can be activated on suitable heterogeneous catalysts showing high activity and selectivity toward the desired oxygena...

The relative reactivity of a series of nucleophiles that includes ethylene, sulfides, sulfoxides, amines, and phosphines toward dioxirane, dimethyldioxirane, carbonyloxide and dimethylcarbonyloxide has been U U Ž . U examined at the MP4r6-31G rrMP2r6-31G , QCISD T r6-31G rrMP2r631G , and B3-LYPr6-31G levels of theory. The barriers for the oxidations with Ž . dimethyldioxirane are higher up to 2...

Photocatalytic fibers were generated from the continuous evaporation of titanium tetraisopropoxide with tetraethyl orthosilicate through a flame burner. The morphology, the crystal form, and the components of the nanotitanosilicate fibers were analyzed by Raman spectroscopy, Field emission-scanning electron microscope, X-ray diffraction, and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface area analysis. The nan...

Atmospheric oxidation of monoterpenes contributes to formation of tropospheric ozone and secondary organic aerosol, but their products are poorly characterized. In this work, we report a series of outdoor smog chamber experiments to investigate both gaseous and particulate products in the ozone oxidation of four monoterpenes: α-pinene, β-pinene, 13-carene, and sabinene. More than ten oxygenated...

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