Understanding the active role of water in laboratory chamber studies of reactions of the OH radical with alcohols of atmospheric relevance
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2024-04-02Author
Garavagno, María de los A.
Hernández, Federico J.
Jara-Toro, Rafael A.
Pino, Gustavo A.
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-8759https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7497-9424
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3837-5161
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8702-2688
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In this work, we studied the reactions of three cyclic aliphatic alcohols with OH at room temperature, atmospheric pressure and different humidities in a Teflon reaction chamber. It was determined that the lower the solubility of the alcohol in water, the larger the effect of the humidity on the acceleration of the reaction. This experimental evidence allows suggesting that the acceleration is due to the reaction of the co-adsorbed reactants at the air–water interface of a thin water film deposited on the Teflon walls of the reaction chamber, instead of between co-reactants dissolved in the water film or due to gas phase catalysis as previously suggested. Therefore, formation of thin water films on different surfaces could have some implications on the tropospheric chemistry of these alcohols in the tropical regions of the planet with high humidity.
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Garavagno, F. J. Hernández, R. A. Jara-Toro and G. A. Pino. Understanding the active role of water in laboratory chamber studies of reactions of the OH radical with alcohols of atmospheric relevance. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26, 12745 DOI: 10.1039/D3CP05667H
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