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Despite the huge increase in computational effort, this direct symmetry-adapted LCAO method was used to study ozone [22], tetrahedral Ni4 [23], and D5h-symmetric ferrocene (Fe(C5H5)2) [24] using molecular orbital (MO) contraction coefficients in the linear-combination-of-Gaussian-type orbital (LCGTO) computer code of [25]. Obviously, symmetry-adapted calculations are important enough to pay an order-TV computational price. The reasons are first, and foremost, that the calculations converge, and second that the wavefunction and one-electron orbitals can be used to address experiment, which typically must first determine the symmetry of the molecule. 

The dlchloromethane-soluble fraction of POM showed a consistent association with the sulfate factor. Previous summer studies (29, 30) have Indicated correlations between this fraction and ozone. As sulfate and ozone are strongly correlated during the summer months in the northeastern part of the U.S. (31), there may be a stronger association between DCM and ozone than DCM and sulfate. As of this date, the ozone data have been obtained from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation but have not been entered into the computer files. 

Hough, A. M., and R. G. Derwent, Computer Modeling Studies of the Distribution of Photochemical Ozone Production between Different Hydrocarbons, Atmos. Environ., 21, 2015-2033 (1987). 

Several potential peroxy radical measurement techniques exist in the realm of atmospheric chemistry studies, although most have been used only in the laboratory. The techniques are summarized in Table I. Possibly, some laboratory methods could be applied to atmospheric measurements. The database for ambient peroxy radical concentrations in the troposphere and stratosphere is meager. Much of the available stratospheric data yield concentrations of H02 higher than those calculated with computer models. The reasons for this systematic difference are not known. In the troposphere, more measurements are called for in conjunction with other related species such as ozone, NO, NOjNo2 andjcv It wiH also t>e appropriate to develop multiple methods, and, when they have reached maturity, to perform intercomparison studies. 

Takenaka and Lemal subsequently undertook an extensive study of the perfluorobenzene oxide (3)/perfluorooxepin (4) system.13,14 After considerable effort, benzene oxide 3 was successfully prepared by ozonization of tricyclic precursor 5 and photolytic decomposition of the resultant ozonides. Oxepin 4 was not observed directly, but was estimated by NMR computer simulations to be present in small proportion (3 %) at 55"C. The principal reaction of 3 is its rearrangement to cyclohexadienone 2, which occurs at room temperature in polar solvents, by heating in nonpolar solvents, or in the presence of Lewis acids. Photolysis of 3 with benzophenone as triplet sensitizer also produces 2. Furthermore, attempts to trap the oxepin, for example by treatment with bromine in the dark, result in cyclohexadienone 2. 

Kinetic Studies. Although it was not possible to measure the ozonation rates for dialkylmercurials by the techniques described earlier, the alkylmercuric halides reacted slowly enough at 0°C that quite good rate plots were obtained. These plots, performed by an IBM 1620 computer and on concentration data obtained under pseudo-first-order reaction conditions, yielded the relative rate data listed in Table III. These data suggested the two general relative-rate sequences illustrated by sequences 16 and 17 (see p. 88). 

There have been several preliminary quantum mechanical computations of some elementary steps in ozone formation [41-43]. In some studies the zero-point en-... 

Lurmann EW, Lloyd AC, Atkinson R (1986) A chemical mechanism for use in long-range transport/acid deposition computer modelling. J Geophys Res 91 10905-10936 Marcal V, Rivire ED, Held G, Cautenet S, Freitas S (2006) Modelling study of the impact of deep convection on the UTLS air composition - Part I analysis of ozone precursors. Atmos Chem Phys 6 1567-1584... 

The major chemical cycles describing catalytic ozone destruction by HOx, NOx and ClOx are now reasonably well characterized. The development of sophisticated computational models has facilitated the unification of field studies with laboratory experiments. At high altitudes where the... 

In parallel with their own research programs, the manufacturers, through the FPP also jointly fimded research to study the atmospheric chemistry of CFCs in order to assess the extent of any risk they might pose. Independent research workers of imiversities and research institutes worldwide were contracted to measure the rates of reactions, which were essential input data for the complex computer models needed to predict the rate of ozone depletion. This value could not be measured directly in the 1970s because the large daily and seasonal fluctuations in stratospheric ozone concentrations swamped the modest depletion expected from CFCs. 

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