Formation of In‐Cloud Aqueous‐Phase Secondary Organic Matter and Related Characteristic Molecules

Sun, Wei; Zhang, Guohua; Guo, Ziyong; Fu, Yuzhen; Peng, Xiaocong; Yang, Yuxiang; Hu, Xiaodong; Lin, Juying; Jiang, Feng; Jiang, Bin; Liao, Yuhong; Chen, Duohong; Chen, Jianmin; Ou, Jie; Wang, Xinming; Peng, Ping'an; Bi, Xinhui

doi:10.1029/2023jd040355

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“…Older work was mainly focused on gas-phase reactivity, aiming principally to determine reaction mechanisms, participant species, and the thermochemistry and kinetics of said mechanisms. In more recent years, the importance of water mediated chemistry in the atmosphere has been highlighted, in relation to phenomena like aerosol particle growth, cloud formation, and contamination [1][2][3][4][5]. Over the past decade, it has become clear that aqueous chemical processes occurring in cloud droplets and wet atmospheric particles are an important source of organic atmospheric particulate matter.…”

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Energetics of the OH radical H-abstraction reactions from simple aldehydes and their geminal diol forms

Salta,

Schaefer,

Tasinato

et al. 2024

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Context: Carbonyl compounds, especially aldehydes, emitted to the atmosphere, may suffer hydration in aerosols or water droplets in clouds. At the same time, they can react with hydroxyl radicals which may add or abstract hydrogen atoms from these species. The interplay between hydration and hydrogen abstraction is studied using density functional and quantum composite theoretical methods, both in the gas phase and in simulated bulk water. The H-abstraction from the aldehydic and geminal diol forms of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, glycolaldehyde, glyoxal, methylglyoxal and acrolein are studied to determine whether the substituent has any noticeable effect in the preference for the abstraction of one form or another. It is found that abstraction of the H-atom adjacent to the carbonyl group gives a more stable radical than same abstraction from the geminal diol in the case of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde and glycolaldehyde. The presence of a delocalizing group in the Ca (a carbonyl group in glyoxal and methylglyoxal, and a vinyl group in acrolein), reverts this trend and now the abstraction of the H-atom from the geminal diol gives more stable radicals. A further study was conducted abstracting hydrogen atoms from the other different positions in the species considered, both in the aldehydic and geminal diol forms. Only in the case of glycolaldehyde, the radical formed by H-abstraction from the –CH2OH group is more stable than any of the other radical species. Abstraction of the hydrogen atom in one of the hydroxyl groups in the geminal diol is equivalent to the addition of the •OH radical to the aldehyde. It leads, in some cases, to decomposition into a smaller radical and a neutral molecule. In these cases, some interesting theoretical differences are observed between the results in gas-phase and (simulated) bulk solvent, as well as with respect to the method of calculation chosen. Methods: DFT (M06-2X, B2PLYP, PW6B95), CCSD(T) and composite (CBS-QB3, jun-ChS, SCVECV-f12) methods using Dunning basis sets and extrapolation to the CBS limit were used to study the energetics of closed shell aldehydes in their keto and geminal-diol forms, as well as the radical derived from them by hydrogen abstraction. Both gas-phase and simulated bulk solvent calculations were performed, in the last case using the Polarizable Continuum Model.

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confidence: 99%