Organic nitrates photochemistry

It is of particular relevance to atmospheric photochemistry that isoprene, a main naturally emitted hydrocarbon, was found to form bifunctional organic nitrates as the predominant products of its reaction with the NO3 radical in air. 

Extensive research has been conducted into the atmospheric chemistry of organic chemicals because of air quality concerns. Recently, Atkinson and coworkers (1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991), Altshuller (1980, 1991) and Sabljic and Glisten (1990) have reviewed the photochemistry of many organic chemicals of environmental interest for their gas phase reactions with hydroxyl radicals (OH), ozone (03) and nitrate radicals (N03) and have provided detailed information on reaction rate constants and experimental conditions, which allowed the estimation of atmospheric lifetimes. Klopffer (1991) has estimated the atmospheric lifetimes for the reaction with OH radicals to range from 1 hour to 130 years, based on these reaction rate constants and an assumed constant concentration of OH... 

Other light-absorbing compounds that may be present in marine aerosol particles and contribute to photochemistry include transition metals, nitrate anions, amines, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, and other organic molecules. Transition metal complexes (including iron, copper, manganese, nickel) are... 

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