“…Since almost all terpenes are unsaturated compounds, they are not only affected by OH. There has been a continuous debate concerning the ozone forming potential and the formation of transient products -gaseous as well as aerosols -of these reactive hydrocarbons (Graedel, 1979;Zimmermann et al, 1978;Lurmann et al, 1984). Although it is known from the literature, that terpenes react with 03 (Atkinson and Carter, 1984), OH (Winer et al, 1976;Kleindienst et al, 1982;Atkinson, 1986a), O(3p) (Gaffney et al, 1975), NO2 and NO3 (Atkinson et al, 1985), considerable scatter exists among the measured rate constants for the reactions with 03, and only few data are available for the reactions with OH.…”