Ozone nitrogen dioxide reaction

Oxidants Substances present in air, such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, etc., that are capable of oxidizing other chemicals or elements in oxidation-reduction type chemical reactions. 

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). 

The photochemical processes of triatomic molecules have been extensively studied in recent years, particularly those of water, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and sulfur dioxide, as they are important minor constituents of the earth s atmosphere. (Probably more than 200 papers on ozone photolysis alone have been published in the last decade.) Carbon dioxide is the major component of the Mars and Venus atmospheres. The primary photofragments produced and their subsequent reactions are well understood for the above-mentioned six triatomic molecules as the photodissociation involves only two bonds to be ruptured and two fragments formed in various electronic states. The photochemical processes of these six molecules are discussed in detail in the following sections. They illustrate how the knowledge of primary products and their subsequent reactions have aided in interpreting the results obtained by the traditional end product analysis and quantum yield measurements. 

In the stratosphere nitric oxide is converted to nitrogen dioxide by reaction with ozone ... 

The nitric oxide produced in this reaction reacts with ozone to regenerate oxygen and nitrogen dioxide ... 

Here a chemical reaction produces a molecule with electrons in an excited state. Upon decay to the ground state the liberated radiation is detected. One such example is the reaction between ozone and nitric oxide to form nitrogen dioxide emitting radiation in the near infra-red in the 0.5-3/t region. The technique flnds use for measuring nitric oxide in ambient air or stack emissions. 

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