Chemical reactivity of transition metal clusters toward various molecules in gas phase has been a subject of numerous investigations,1,2 motivated by search of analogues to adsorption mechanisms and reactivity at bulk metal surfaces. However, the full catalytic cycle, involving detection of a product molecule XY, as a result of reaction between reactants X and Y in the presence of the metal clu...

Light-off of the partial oxidation of methane to synthesis gas on a rhodiumcoated cordierite honeycomb monolith at short contact times is studied experimentally and numerically. The objective of this investigation is a better understanding of transient processes in catalytic oxidation reactors. The numerical simulation predicts the time-dependent solid-temperature distribution of the entire rea...

We studied the OH oxidation of submicron aerosol particles consisting of pure palmitic acid (PA) or thin (near monolayer) coatings of PA on aqueous and effloresced inorganic salt particles. Experiments were performed as a function of particle size and OH exposure using a continuous-flow photochemical reaction chamber coupled to a chemical 5 ionization mass spectrometer (CIMS) system, for detect...

We use the chemical transport model GEOS-Chem to evaluate the hypothesis that atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are trapped in secondary organic aerosol (SOA) as it forms. We test the ability of three different partitioning configurations within the model to reproduce observed total concentrations in the midlatitudes and the Arctic as well as midlatitude gas-particle phase dis...

Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation proceeds by bimolecular gas-phase oxidation reactions generating species that are sufficiently low in volatility to partition into the condensed phase. Advances in instrumentation have revealed that atmospheric SOA is less volatile and more oxidized than can be explained solely by these well-studied gas-phase oxidation pathways, supporting the role of a...

Description in terms of physicochemistry and heat and mass transfer of the combustion front propagation in a reactive porous medium remains a challenge to science. The literature about this subject distinguishes two types of problems. The first considers only combustion of the gas phase inside an inert solid porous medium. In the second type, the solid phase reacts with the gas phase; Chemical ...

Multistage mass spectrometry experiments reveal a sequence of gas phase reactions for the oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde with a mononuclear oxo vanadate anion as the catalyst and dioxygen as the terminal oxidant.

Nanoscale titania particles were synthesized inside the porous coordination polymer [Zn(4)O(bdc)(3)] (bdc = 1,4-benzene-dicarboxylate, MOF-5) by adsorption of titanium isopropoxide from the gas-phase and subsequent dry oxidation and annealing.