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Chemistry in Ihe atmosphere is almost entirely free radical reactions. 

Formaldehyde and other aldehydes and ketones formed during the atmospheric oxidation of more complex organic compounds are photolysed with a loss of a hydrogen atom or an alkyl radical. Photolysis of ketones (6.59) provides one way in which C-C bonds break another is the fragmentation of alkoxyl radicals mentioned earlier (reaction 6.40). Eventually, all organic compounds end up as carbon dioxide and water. 

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Organic compounds are a major constituent of the FPM at all sites. The major sources of OC are combustion and atmospheric reactions involving gaseous VOCs. As is the case with VOCs, there are hundreds of different OC compounds in the atmosphere. A minor but ubiquitous aerosol constituent is elemental carbon. EC is the nonorganic, black constituent of soot. Combustion and pyrolysis are the only processes that produce EC, and diesel engines and wood burning are the most significant sources. 

An extensive source of natural pollutants is the plants and trees of the earth. Even though these green plants play a large part in the conversion of carbon dioxide to oxygen through photosynthesis, they are still the major source of hydrocarbons on the planet. The familiar blue haze over forested areas is nearly all from the atmospheric reactions of the volatile organics... 

Reaction (12-9) shows the photochemical dissodation of NO2. Reaction (12-10) shows the formation of ozone from the combination of O and molecular O2 where M is any third-body molecule (principally N2 and O2 in the atmosphere). Reaction (12-11) shows the oxidation of NO by O3 to form NO2 and molecular oxygen. These three reactions represent a cyclic pathway (Fig. 12-4) driven by photons represented by hv. Throughout the daytime period, the flux of solar radiation changes with the movement of the sun. However, over short time periods (—10 min) the flux may be considered constant, in which case the rate of reaction (12-9) may be expressed as... 

Classify the compounds in Table 12-4 into precursors (reactants) and products of atmospheric reaction processes. 

One strategy in limiting the formation of ozone and other photochemical oxidants has been the use (in the past) of low reactivity fuels in internal combustion engines. More recently, alternate fuels (methanol, for instance) have been proposed for regions that suffer from elevated levels of photochemical air pollution. The effect of switching to such a low-reactivity fuel may be seen in Equation E2 for methanol, which has a simple atmospheric reaction mechanism. 

There are no data on the flux rates of leaf volatiles into the atmosphere. In the L. tridentata shrublands of North America and in areas in Australia where unpalatable, woody shrubs have replaced grasses, the presence of volatile hydrocarbons in the air is detectable by the human nose. The distinct odors of these hydrocarbons is especially noticeable after a rain. It has been suggested that these compounds may undergo atmospheric reactions that produce ozone and other oxidizing substances (8). However, there are no data on these atmospheric reactions. 

Rate constants for a large number of atmospheric reactions have been tabulated by Baulch et al. (1982, 1984) and Atkinson and Lloyd (1984). Reactions for the atmosphere as a whole and for cases involving aquatic systems, soils, and surface systems are often parameterized by the methods of Chapter 4. That is, the rate is taken to be a linear function or a power of some limiting reactant - often the compound of interest. As an example, the global uptake of CO2 by photosynthesis is often represented in the empirical form d[C02]/df = —fc[C02] ". Rates of reactions on solid surfaces tend to be much more complicated than gas phase reactions, but have been examined in selected cases for solids suspended in air, water, or in sediments. 

Stability of UDMH at relatively high concentrations ( -4) there have been relatively few investigations of its atmospheric reactions. 

In view of its potential for nitrosamine formation, a more detailed knowledge of the atmospheric reactions and products of UDMH is clearly desirable. In order to provide such data for UDMH and other hydrazines we have studied their dark reactions in air, with and without added O3 or NO, and have investigated their atmospheric photooxidation in the presence of NO ( 9 ). In this paper, we report the results we have obtained to date for UDMH. 

An important aspect of atmospheric reactions is the possibility that tropospheric transformation products subsequently enter aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems through precipitation or by particle deposition. 

Low concentrations of trifluoroacetate have been found in lakes in California and Nevada (Wujcik et al. 1998). It is formed by atmospheric reactions from 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane and from the chlorofluorocarbon replacement compound CF3-CH2F (HFC-134a) in an estimated yield of 7-20% (Wallington et al. 1996). CF3OH that is formed from CF3 in the stratosphere is apparently a sink for its oxidation products (Wallington and Schneider 1994). 

Arey J (1998) Atmospheric reactions of PAHs including formation of nitroarenes. Handbook Environ Ghent 31 347-385. 

Ishii S, Y Hisamatsu, K Inazu, M Kadoi, K-J Aika (2000) Ambient measurement of nitrotriphenylenes and possibility of nitrotriphenylene formation by atmospheric reaction. Environ Sci Technol 34 1893-1899. 

Spicer CW, Riggin RM, Holdren MW, et al. 1985. Atmospheric reaction products from hazardous air pollutant degradation. Research Triangle Park, NC. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development. EPA/600/3-85/028. NTIS No. PB85-185841. 

React for 2 hours at room temperature, while maintaining the solution under an argon atmosphere. Reaction progress may be determined by TLC using silica gel plates developed... 

An 8000-member library of trisamino- and aminooxy-l,3,5-triazines has been prepared by use of highly effective, microwave-assisted nucleophilic substitution of polypropylene (PP) or cellulose membrane-bound monochlorotriazines. The key step relied on the microwave-promoted substitution of the chlorine atom in monochlorotriazines (Scheme 12.7) [35]. Whereas the conventional procedure required relatively harsh conditions such as 80 °C for 5 h or very long reaction times (4 days), all substitution reactions were found to proceed within 6 min, with both amines and solutions of cesium salts of phenols, and use of microwave irradiation in a domestic oven under atmospheric reaction conditions. The reactions were conducted by applying a SPOT-synthesis technique [36] on 18 x 26 cm cellulose membranes leading to a spatially addressed parallel assembly of the desired triazines after cleavage with TFA vapor. This concept was later also extended to other halogenated heterocycles, such as 2,4,6-trichloropyrimidine, 4,6-dichloro-5-nitropyrimidine, and 2,6,8-trichloro-7-methylpurine, and applied to the synthesis of macrocyclic peptidomimetics [37]. 

Both processes are switched on by the absorption of short-wavelength radiation X < 240 nm for H20 and X < 230 nm for C02. On the assumption that H atoms escape from the atmosphere, there is a net gain in oxygen to the atmosphere. Reactions of O atoms and 02 chemistry would then lead to the formation of a small ozone layer with a low ozone concentration. 

If the primary loss mechanism of atmospheric reaction is accepted as having a 17h half-life, the D value is 1.6 x 109 mol/Pah. For any other process to compete with this would require a value of at least 108 mol/Pah. This is achieved by advection (4 x 10s), but the other processes range in D value from 19 (advection in bottom sediment) to 1.5 x 10s (reaction in water) and are thus a factor of over 100 or less. The implication is that the water reaction rate constant would have to be increased 100-fold to become significant. The soil rate constant would require an increase by 104 and the sediment by 10s. These are inconceivably large numbers corresponding to very short half-lives, thus the actual values of the rate constants in these media are relatively unimportant in this context. They need not be known accurately. The most sensitive quantity is clearly the atmospheric reaction rate. 

Reduced sulfur fuel, 18 667 Reducing agents, 9 687, 688-689 Reducing atmospheres, reaction of photoholes with, 19 84-85 Reducing bleaches, 4 63-64 bleaching mechanism, 4 47 Reducing chemistry, in water treatment, 23 222-226... 

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