Nitrate radical aqueous phase reactions

Titanium dioxide suspended in an aqueous solution and irradiated with UV light X = 365 nm) converted benzene to carbon dioxide at a significant rate (Matthews, 1986). Irradiation of benzene in an aqueous solution yields mucondialdehyde. Photolysis of benzene vapor at 1849-2000 A yields ethylene, hydrogen, methane, ethane, toluene, and a polymer resembling cuprene. Other photolysis products reported under different conditions include fulvene, acetylene, substituted trienes (Howard, 1990), phenol, 2-nitrophenol, 4-nitrophenol, 2,4-dinitrophenol, 2,6-dinitro-phenol, nitrobenzene, formic acid, and peroxyacetyl nitrate (Calvert and Pitts, 1966). Under atmospheric conditions, the gas-phase reaction with OH radicals and nitrogen oxides resulted in the formation of phenol and nitrobenzene (Atkinson, 1990). Schwarz and Wasik (1976) reported a fluorescence quantum yield of 5.3 x 10" for benzene in water. 

Nitropyrene was the sole product formed from the gas-phase reaction of pyrene with OH radicals in a NOx atmosphere (Arey et al, 1986). Pyrene adsorbed on glass fiber filters reacted rapidly with N2O5 to form 1-nitropyrene. When pyrene was exposed to nitrogen dioxide, no reaction occurred. However, in the presence of nitric acid, nitrated compounds were produced (Yokley et al, 1985). Ozonation of water containing pyrene (10-200 pg/L) yielded short-chain aliphatic compounds as the major products (Corless et al, 1990). A monochlorinated pyrene was the major product formed during the chlorination of pyrene in aqueous solutions. At pH 4, the reported half-lives at chlorine concentrations of 0.6 and 10 mg/L were 8.8 and <0.2 h, respectively (Mori et al, 1991). 

Chemical/Physical. The gas-phase reaction of ozone with pyridine in synthetic air at 23 °C yielded a nitrated salt having the formula [CeHsNHJ NOs (Atkinson et al., 1987). Ozonation of pyridine in aqueous solutions at 25 °C was studied with and without the addition of ferf-butyl alcohol (20 mM) as a radical scavenger. With tert-hniyX alcohol, ozonation of pyridine yielded mainly pyridine W-oxide (80% yield), which was very stable towards ozone. Without terf-butyl alcohol, the heterocyclic ring is rapidly cleaved forming ammonia, nitrate, and the amidic compound W-formyl oxamic acid (Andreozzi et al., 1991). 

Chemical/Physical. Under atmospheric conditions, the gas-phase reaction of o-xylene with OH radicals and nitrogen oxides resulted in the formation of o-tolualdehyde, o-methylbenzyl nitrate, nitro-o-xylenes, 2,3-and 3,4-dimethylphenol (Atkinson, 1990). Kanno et al. (1982) studied the aqueous reaction of o-xylene and other aromatic hydrocarbons (benzene, toluene, w and p-xylene, and naphthalene) with hypochlorous acid in the presence of ammonium ion. They reported that the aromatic ring was not chlorinated as expected but was cleaved by chloramine forming cyanogen chloride. The amount of cyanogen chloride formed increased at lower pHs (Kanno et al., 1982). In the gas phase, o-xylene reacted with nitrate radicals in purified air forming the following products 5-nitro-2-methyltoluene and 6-nitro-2-methyltoluene, o-methylbenzaldehyde, and an aryl nitrate (Chiodini et ah, 1993). 

In addition to the uptake of NO, from the gas phase, N03 can also be directly generated in the aqueous phase by reaction of nitrate ion with S04, the sulfate(VI) radical anion (Zellner and Herrmann, 1995) ... 

Predecessors (Global-through- urban) GCMOM (247 reactions, 115 species) bulk or size-resolved aqueous-phase sulfate, nitrate, organics, chlorine, oxidant, radical chemistry (64 kinetic reactions) size-resolved, prognostic aerosol/cloud with complex processes feedbacks Direct/indirect effects AQ/health effect 2002, 2004a, b), Jacobson et al. (2004, 2007), Jacobson (2006)... 

Note that this reaction pathway will operate only in the nighttime, as during the daytime NO3 photolyzes rapidly. The NO3 radical formed during the nighttime also reacts with a series of organic compounds, producing organic nitrates. Aqueous-phase production of ni-... 

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