Molecular corridors and parameterizations of volatility in the chemical evolution of organic aerosols
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Abstract
Abstract. The formation and aging of organic aerosols (OA) proceed through multiple steps of chemical reaction and mass transport in the gas and particle phases, which is challenging for the interpretation of field measurements and laboratory experiments as well as accurate representation of OA evolution in atmospheric aerosol models. Based on data from over 30 000 compounds, we show that organic compounds with a wide variety of functional groups fall into molecular corridors, characterized by a tight inverse correlation between molar mass and volatility. We developed parameterizations to predict the saturation mass concentration of organic compounds containing oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur from the elemental composition that can be measured by soft-ionization high-resolution mass spectrometry. Field measurement data from new particle formation events, biomass burning, cloud/fog processing, and indoor environments were mapped into molecular corridors to characterize the chemical nature of the observed OA components. We found that less-oxidized indoor OA are constrained to a corridor of low molar mass and high volatility, whereas highly oxygenated compounds in atmospheric water extend to high molar mass and low volatility. Among the nitrogen- and sulfur-containing compounds identified in atmospheric aerosols, amines tend to exhibit low molar mass and high volatility, whereas organonitrates and organosulfates follow high O : C corridors extending to high molar mass and low volatility. We suggest that the consideration of molar mass and molecular corridors can help to constrain volatility and particle-phase state in the modeling of OA particularly for nitrogen- and sulfur-containing compounds.
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- Venue
- Atmospheric chemistry and physics
- Topic
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Field
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Canadian institutions
- —
- Funders
- Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryUniversity of Toronto ScarboroughUniversity of TorontoEidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichUniversiteit UtrechtMax-Planck-GesellschaftMichigan Technological UniversityCarnegie Mellon UniversityNational Natural Science Foundation of ChinaTexas Tech UniversityCalifornia Institute of Technology
- Keywords
- Volatility (finance)ChemistryMolar massAerosolEnvironmental chemistryMass spectrometryNitrogenSulfurChemical compositionAnalytical Chemistry (journal)Chemical physicsOrganic chemistryChromatography
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