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Finlayson-Pitts BJ. Introductory lecture: atmospheric chemistry in the Anthropocene. Faraday Discuss 2017; 200:11-58. [DOI: 10.1039/c7fd00161d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The term “Anthropocene” was coined by Professor Paul Crutzen in 2000 to describe an unprecedented era in which anthropogenic activities are impacting planet Earth on a global scale. Greatly increased emissions into the atmosphere, reflecting the advent of the Industrial Revolution, have caused significant changes in both the lower and upper atmosphere. Atmospheric reactions of the anthropogenic emissions and of those with biogenic compounds have significant impacts on human health, visibility, climate and weather. Two activities that have had particularly large impacts on the troposphere are fossil fuel combustion and agriculture, both associated with a burgeoning population. Emissions are also changing due to alterations in land use. This paper describes some of the tropospheric chemistry associated with the Anthropocene, with emphasis on areas having large uncertainties. These include heterogeneous chemistry such as those of oxides of nitrogen and the neonicotinoid pesticides, reactions at liquid interfaces, organic oxidations and particle formation, the role of sulfur compounds in the Anthropocene and biogenic–anthropogenic interactions. A clear and quantitative understanding of the connections between emissions, reactions, deposition and atmospheric composition is central to developing appropriate cost-effective strategies for minimizing the impacts of anthropogenic activities. The evolving nature of emissions in the Anthropocene places atmospheric chemistry at the fulcrum of determining human health and welfare in the future.
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Richards-Henderson NK, Anderson C, Anastasio C, Finlayson-Pitts BJ. The effect of cations on NO2 production from the photolysis of aqueous thin water films of nitrate salts. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:32211-8. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp05325k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Cations are shown to enhance nitrate photochemistry by changing the concentrations of nitrate ions in the interface region.
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- Department of Land
- Air and Water Resources
- University of California – Davis
- Davis
- USA
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Harris SJ, Murdock D, Zhang Y, Oliver TAA, Grubb MP, Orr-Ewing AJ, Greetham GM, Clark IP, Towrie M, Bradforth SE, Ashfold MNR. Comparing molecular photofragmentation dynamics in the gas and liquid phases. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013; 15:6567-82. [PMID: 23552482 DOI: 10.1039/c3cp50756d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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This article explores the extent to which insights gleaned from detailed studies of molecular photodissociations in the gas phase (i.e. under isolated molecule conditions) can inform our understanding of the corresponding photofragmentation processes in solution. Systems selected for comparison include a thiophenol (p-methylthiophenol), a thioanisole (p-methylthioanisole) and phenol, in vacuum and in cyclohexane solution. UV excitation in the gas phase results in RX-Y (X = O, S; Y = H, CH3) bond fission in all cases, but over timescales that vary by ~4 orders of magnitude - all of which behaviours can be rationalised on the basis of the relevant bound and dissociative excited state potential energy surfaces (PESs) accessed by UV photoexcitation, and of the conical intersections that facilitate radiationless transfer between these PESs. Time-resolved UV pump-broadband UV/visible probe and/or UV pump-broadband IR probe studies of the corresponding systems in cyclohexane solution reveal additional processes that are unique to the condensed phase. Thus, for example, the data clearly reveal evidence of (i) vibrational relaxation of the photoexcited molecules prior to their dissociation and of the radical fragments formed upon X-Y bond fission, and (ii) geminate recombination of the RX and Y products (leading to reformation of the ground state parent and/or isomeric adducts). Nonetheless, the data also show that, in each case, the characteristics (and the timescale) of the initial bond fission process that occurs under isolated molecule conditions are barely changed by the presence of a weakly interacting solvent like cyclohexane. These condensed phase studies are then extended to an ether analogue of phenol (allyl phenyl ether), wherein UV photo-induced RO-allyl bond fission constitutes the first step of a photo-Claisen rearrangement.
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- Stephanie J Harris
- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, UK
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Patterson JD, Reid PJ. Time-Resolved Infrared Absorption Studies of the Solvent-Dependent Photochemistry of ClNO. J Phys Chem B 2012; 116:10437-43. [DOI: 10.1021/jp211697r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Joshua D. Patterson
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Box 351700, Seattle, Washington
98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Box 351700, Seattle, Washington
98195, United States
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Richards NK, Wingen LM, Callahan KM, Nishino N, Kleinman MT, Tobias DJ, Finlayson-Pitts BJ. Nitrate Ion Photolysis in Thin Water Films in the Presence of Bromide Ions. J Phys Chem A 2011; 115:5810-21. [DOI: 10.1021/jp109560j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Nicole K. Richards
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2025, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2025, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2025, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2025, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-1825, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2025, United States
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Johnson ML, Benjamin I. Photodissociation of ICN at the Water/Chloroform Interface. J Phys Chem A 2009; 113:7403-11. [DOI: 10.1021/jp900153j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Mindy L. Johnson
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064
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Finlayson-Pitts BJ. Reactions at surfaces in the atmosphere: integration of experiments and theory as necessary (but not necessarily sufficient) for predicting the physical chemistry of aerosols. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2009; 11:7760-79. [DOI: 10.1039/b906540g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 203] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Zolot AM, Dagdigian PJ, Nesbitt DJ. Quantum-state resolved reactive scattering at the gas-liquid interface: F+squalane (C30H62) dynamics via high-resolution infrared absorption of nascent HF(v,J). J Chem Phys 2008; 129:194705. [DOI: 10.1063/1.2973630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Yu Y, Ezell MJ, Zelenyuk A, Imre D, Alexander L, Ortega J, Thomas JL, Gogna K, Tobias DJ, D'Anna B, Harmon CW, Johnson SN, Finlayson-Pitts BJ. Nitrate ion photochemistry at interfaces: a new mechanism for oxidation of α-pinene. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2008; 10:3063-71. [DOI: 10.1039/b719495a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Wingen LM, Moskun AC, Johnson SN, Thomas JL, Roeselová M, Tobias DJ, Kleinman MT, Finlayson-Pitts BJ. Enhanced surface photochemistry in chloride–nitrate ion mixtures. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2008; 10:5668-77. [DOI: 10.1039/b806613b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Gunnerson KN, Brooksby C, Prezhdo OV, Reid PJ. Nonequilibrium versus equilibrium molecular dynamics studies of solvation dynamics after photoexcitation of OClO. J Chem Phys 2007; 127:164510. [DOI: 10.1063/1.2790422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Benjamin I. Theoretical Studies of Solute Vibrational Energy Relaxation at Liquid Interfaces. J Phys Chem B 2006; 110:9375-82. [PMID: 16686479 DOI: 10.1021/jp056420y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Recent advances in the theoretical understanding of solute vibrational energy relaxation at liquid interfaces and surfaces are described. Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of the relaxation of an initially excited solute molecule are combined with equilibrium force autocorrelation calculations to gain insight into the factors that influence the vibrational relaxation rate. Diatomic and triatomic nonpolar, polar, and ionic solute molecules adsorbed at the liquid/vapor interface of several liquids as well as at the water/CCl(4) liquid/liquid interface are considered. In general, the vibrational relaxation rate is significantly slower (a factor of 3 to 4) at the liquid/vapor and liquid/liquid interface than in the bulk due to the reduced density, which gives rise to a reduced contribution of the repulsive solvent-solute forces on the vibrational mode. The surface effects on the ionic solutes are much smaller (50% or less slower relaxation relative to the bulk). This is due to the fact that ionic solutes at the interface are able to keep part of their solvation shell to a degree that depends on their size. Thus, a significant portion of the repulsive forces is maintained. A high degree of correlation is found between the peak height of the solvent-solute radial distribution function and the vibrational relaxation rate. The relaxation rate at the liquid/liquid interface strongly depends on the location of the solute across the interface and correlates with the change in the density and polarity profile of the interface.
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- Ilan Benjamin
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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Nissenson P, Knox CJH, Finlayson-Pitts BJ, Phillips LF, Dabdub D. Enhanced photolysis in aerosols: evidence for important surface effects. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2006; 8:4700-10. [PMID: 17047769 DOI: 10.1039/b609219e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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While there is increasing evidence for unique chemical reactions at interfaces, there are fewer data on photochemistry at liquid-vapor junctions. This paper reports a comparison of the photolysis of molybdenum hexacarbonyl, Mo(CO)(6), in 1-decene either as liquid droplets or in bulk-liquid solutions. Mo(CO)(6) photolysis is faster by at least three orders of magnitude in the aerosols than in bulk-liquids. Two possible sources of this enhancement are considered: (1) increased light intensity due to either Morphology-Dependent Resonances (MDRs) in the spherical aerosol particles and/or to increased pathlengths for light inside the droplet due to refraction, which are termed physical effects in this paper; and (2) interface effects such as an incomplete solvent-cage at the gas-liquid boundary and/or enhanced interfacial concentrations of Mo(CO)(6), which are termed chemical effects. Quantitative calculations of the first possibility were carried out in which the light intensity distribution in the droplets averaged over 215-360 nm was obtained for 1-decene droplets. Calculations show that the average increase in light intensity over the entire droplet is 106%, with an average increase of 51% at the interface. These increases are much smaller than the observed increase in the apparent photolysis rate of droplets compared to the bulk. Thus, chemical effects, i.e., a decreased solvent-cage effect at the interface and/or enhancement in the surface concentration of Mo(CO)(6), are most likely responsible for the dramatic increase in the photolysis rate. Similar calculations were also carried out for broadband (290-600 nm) solar irradiation of water droplets, relevant to atmospheric conditions. These calculations show that, in agreement with previous calculations by Mayer and Madronich [B. Mayer and S. Madronich, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 2004, 4, 2241] MDRs produce only a moderate average intensity enhancement relative to the corresponding bulk-liquid slabs when averaged over a range of wavelengths characteristic of solar radiation at the Earth's surface. However, as in the case of Mo(CO)(6) in 1-decene, chemical effects may play a role in enhanced photochemistry at the aerosol-air interface for airborne particles.
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- Paul Nissenson
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-3975, USA
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Winter N, Benjamin I. Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions at Liquid/Liquid Interfaces: Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Model SN1 Dissociation Reaction at the Water/Carbon Tetrachloride Interface. J Phys Chem B 2005; 109:16421-8. [PMID: 16853087 DOI: 10.1021/jp052112o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The ionic dissociation step of the nucleophilic substitution reaction t-BuCl --> t-Bu(+) + Cl(-) is studied at the water/carbon tetrachloride interface using molecular dynamics computer simulations. The empirical valence bond approach is used to couple two diabatic states, covalent and ionic, in the electronically adiabatic limit. The umbrella sampling technique is used to calculate the potential of mean force along the reaction coordinate (defined as the t-Bu to Cl distance) at several interface regions of varying distances from the Gibbs dividing surface. We find a significant increase of the ionic dissociation barrier height and of the reaction free energy at the interface relative to bulk water. This is shown to be due to the reduced polarity of the interface which causes a destabilization of the pure ionic state. However, deformation to the neat interface structure in the form of water protrusions into the organic phase may provide partial stabilization of the ionic species. The importance of these structural effects is examined by repeating the calculations with an artificially smooth interface. The destabilization of the ionic state at the interface also manifests itself with a rapid (picosecond time scale) recombination dynamics of the ions to form the parent molecule followed by a slow vibrational relaxation.
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- Nicole Winter
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
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Winter N, Benjamin I. Photodissociation of ICN at the liquid/vapor interface of water. J Chem Phys 2004; 121:2253-63. [PMID: 15260780 DOI: 10.1063/1.1765093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The photodissociation of ICN adsorbed at the liquid/vapor interface of water is studied using classical molecular dynamics with nonadiabatic surface hopping. The cage escape, geminate recombination to form ICN and INC and the subsequent vibrational relaxation of these two molecules (on their ground electronic states) is compared with the same process in bulk water and with previous photodissociation studies at liquid interfaces. We find that the reduced surface density and weaker solvent-solute interactions give rise to reduced rate of nonadiabatic transitions and that the probability for cage escape at the interface is significantly enhanced due to the possibility that one or both of the photodissociation fragments desorb into the gas phase. The overall desorption probability varies from 75% to 92% for ICN initially located just below the Gibbs surface (50% bulk density) to ICN located just above the Gibbs surface, respectively. The corresponding geminate recombination probabilities are 18% and 9%, respectively. The vibrational relaxation rate of the recombined ICN is slower than in the bulk by a factor of 2.3.
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- Nicole Winter
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA
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