Kinetic studies of reactions of the nitrate radical (NO3) with peroxy radicals (RO2): an indirect source of OH at night?

A discharge-flow system, coupled to cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy (CEAS) detection systems for NO3 at lambda=662 nm and NO2 at lambda=404 nm, was used to investigate the kinetics of the reactions of NO3 with eight peroxy radicals at P approximately 5 Torr and T approximately 295 K. Values of the rate constants obtained were (k/10(-12) cm3 molecule-1 s-1): CH3O2 (1.1+/-0.

Gas-phase reactions of NO3 and N2O5 with (Z)-hex-4-en-1-ol, (Z)-hex-3-en-1-ol ('leaf alcohol'), (E)-hex-3-en-1-ol, (Z)-hex-2-en-1-ol and (E)-hex-2-en-1-ol.

The night-time atmospheric chemistry of the biogenic volatile organic compounds (Z)-hex-4-en-1-ol, (Z)-hex-3-en-1-ol ('leaf alcohol'), (E)-hex-3-en-1-ol, (Z)-hex-2-en-1-ol and (E)-hex-2-en-1-ol, has been studied at room temperature. Rate coefficients for reactions of the nitrate radical (NO(3)) with these stress-induced plant emissions were measured using the discharge-flow technique. We employed off-axis continuous-wave cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy (CEAS) for the detection of NO(3), which enabled us to work in excess of the hexenol compounds over NO(3).

Gas-phase rate coefficients for the reactions of nitrate radicals with (Z)-pent-2-ene, (E)-pent-2-ene, (Z)-hex-2-ene, (E)-hex-2-ene, (Z)-hex-3-ene, (E)-hex-3-ene and (E)-3-methylpent-2-ene at room temperature.

Rate coefficients for reactions of nitrate radicals (NO3) with (Z)-pent-2-ene, (E)-pent-2-ene, (Z)-hex-2-ene, (E)-hex-2-ene, (Z)-hex-3-ene, (E)-hex-3-ene and (E)-3-methylpent-2-ene were determined to be (6.55 +/- 0.78)x 10(-13) cm3 molecule(-1) s(-1), (3.

A discharge-flow study of the kinetics of the reactions of IO with CH3O2 and CF3O2.

We have determined the rate constants for the reactions IO + CH3O2 --> Products (1) and IO + CF3O2 --> Products (2) using a discharge-flow tube equipped with off-axis cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy (CEAS) for the detection of IO. NO2, produced from the titration of RO2 with NO, was also detected using the CEAS system. The rate constants obtained were k1 = (6.

An experimental study of the gas-phase reaction of the NO3 radical with alpha,beta-unsaturated carbonyl compounds.

The relative-rate technique has been used to obtain rate coefficients for the reaction between the NO3 radical and alpha,beta-unsaturated esters and ketones: methyl E-2-butenoate (k1), methyl 3-methyl-2-butenoate (k2), methyl E-2-methyl-2-butenoate (k3), 3-methyl-3-buten-2-one (k4), E-3-penten-2-one (ks), 4-methyl-3-penten-2-one (k6), and E-3-methyl-3-penten-2-one (k7). The rate constants obtained by the relative-rate method at T = 298 +/- 2 K and P = 760 +/- 5 Torr (N2 as bath gas) are: k1 = (1.85 +/- 0.