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SUBMITTER: Shaw MF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6030138 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180703 1
Organic acids play a key role in the troposphere, contributing to atmospheric aqueous-phase chemistry, aerosol formation, and precipitation acidity. Atmospheric models currently account for less than half the observed, globally averaged formic acid loading. Here we report that acetaldehyde photo-tautomerizes to vinyl alcohol under atmospherically relevant pressures of nitrogen, in the actinic wavelength range, λ = 300-330 nm, with measured quantum yields of 2-25%. Recent theoretical kinetics stu ...[more]