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Wang C, Chen X, Liu Y, Huang T, Jiang S. Theoretical Study of the Gas-Phase Hydrolysis of Formaldehyde to Produce Methanediol and Its Implication to New Particle Formation. ACS OMEGA 2023; 8:15467-15478. [PMID: 37151514 PMCID: PMC10157852 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c00770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2023] [Accepted: 03/30/2023] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Aldehydes were speculated to be important precursor species in new particle formation (NPF). The direct involvement of formaldehyde (CH2O) in sulfuric acid and water nucleation is negligible; however, whether its atmospheric hydrolysate, methanediol (CH2(OH)2), which contains two hydroxyl groups, participates in NPF is not known. This work investigates both CH2O hydrolysis and NPF from sulfuric acid and CH2(OH)2 with quantum chemistry calculations and atmospheric cluster dynamics modeling. Kinetic calculation shows that reaction rates of the gas-phase hydrolysis of CH2O catalyzed by sulfuric acid are 11-15 orders of magnitude faster than those of the naked path at 253-298 K. Based on structures and the calculated formation Gibbs free energies, the interaction between sulfuric acid/its dimer/its trimer and CH2(OH)2 is thermodynamically favorable, and CH2(OH)2 forms hydrogen bonds with sulfuric acid/its dimer/its trimer via two hydroxyl groups to stabilize clusters. Our further cluster kinetic calculations suggested that the particle formation rates of the system are higher than those of the binary system of sulfuric acid and water at ambient low sulfuric acid concentrations and low relative humidity. In addition, the formation rate is found to present a negative temperature dependence because evaporation rate constants contribute significantly to it. However, cluster growth is essentially limited by the weak formation of the largest clusters, which implies that other stabilizing vapors are required for stable cluster formation and growth.
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- Chunyu Wang
- School
of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Chaohu University, Hefei 238024, Anhui, China
- Water
Environment Research Center, Chaohu University, Hefei 238024, Anhui, China
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- School
of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Chaohu University, Hefei 238024, Anhui, China
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- School
of Information Science and Technology, University
of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, Anhui, China
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- Laboratory
of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry, Anhui
Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, Anhui, China
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- School
of Information Science and Technology, University
of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, Anhui, China
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Li H. The solvation of SOH group in hydrated HSO 4−(H 2O) n clusters. JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH 2023. [DOI: 10.1177/17475198231153994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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The S=O stretching and SOH bending peaks in the vibrational spectra of HSO4−(H2O) n, with n up to 6, are analyzed by both harmonic analysis and ab initio molecular dynamics simulation. The SOH bending mode is found to be much more sensitive to the extent of hydration and to the fluctuation of hydrogen bonds than the S=O stretching mode. The SOH donor hydrogen bond is gradually stabilized by n = 4, and further shortened up to n = 6, which is the key factor to understand the trend of evolution observed in the infrared multiple photon dissociation spectra.
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- Huiyan Li
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biofunctional Molecules, College of Life Science and Chemistry, Jiangsu Second Normal University, Nanjing, China
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Jensen AB, Kubečka J, Schmitz G, Christiansen O, Elm J. Massive Assessment of the Binding Energies of Atmospheric Molecular Clusters. J Chem Theory Comput 2022; 18:7373-7383. [PMID: 36417753 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Quantum chemical studies of the formation and growth of atmospheric molecular clusters are important for understanding aerosol particle formation. However, the search for the lowest free-energy cluster configuration is extremely time consuming. This makes high-level benchmark data sets extremely valuable in the quest for the global minimum as it allows the identification of cost-efficient computational methodologies, as well as the development of high-level machine learning (ML) models. Herein, we present a highly versatile quantum chemical data set comprising a total of 11 749 (acid)1-2(base)1-2 cluster configurations, containing up to 44 atoms. Utilizing the LUMI supercomputer, we calculated highly accurate PNO-CCSD(F12*)(T)/cc-pVDZ-F12 binding energies of the full set of cluster configurations leading to an unprecedented data set both in regard to sheer size and with respect to the level of theory. We employ the constructed benchmark set to assess the performance of various semiempirical and density functional theory methods. In particular, we find that the r2-SCAN-3c method shows excellent performance across the data set related to both accuracy and CPU time, making it a promising method to employ during cluster configurational sampling. Furthermore, applying the data sets, we construct ML models based on Δ-learning and provide recommendations for future application of ML in cluster configurational sampling.
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- Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.,Department of Chemistry, iClimate, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Bready CJ, Fowler VR, Juechter LA, Kurfman LA, Mazaleski GE, Shields GC. The driving effects of common atmospheric molecules for formation of prenucleation clusters: the case of sulfuric acid, formic acid, nitric acid, ammonia, and dimethyl amine. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: ATMOSPHERES 2022; 2:1469-1486. [PMID: 36561556 PMCID: PMC9648633 DOI: 10.1039/d2ea00087c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2022] [Accepted: 09/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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How secondary aerosols form is critical as aerosols' impact on Earth's climate is one of the main sources of uncertainty for understanding global warming. The beginning stages for formation of prenucleation complexes, that lead to larger aerosols, are difficult to decipher experimentally. We present a computational chemistry study of the interactions between three different acid molecules and two different bases. By combining a comprehensive search routine covering many thousands of configurations at the semiempirical level with high level quantum chemical calculations of approximately 1000 clusters for every possible combination of clusters containing a sulfuric acid molecule, a formic acid molecule, a nitric acid molecule, an ammonia molecule, a dimethylamine molecule, and 0-5 water molecules, we have completed an exhaustive search of the DLPNO-CCSD(T)/CBS//ωB97X-D/6-31++G** Gibbs free energy surface for this system. We find that the detailed geometries of each minimum free energy cluster are often more important than traditional acid or base strength. Addition of a water molecule to a dry cluster can enhance stabilization, and we find that the (SA)(NA)(A)(DMA)(W) cluster has special stability. Equilibrium calculations of SA, FA, NA, A, DMA, and water using our quantum chemical ΔG° values for cluster formation and realistic estimates of the concentrations of these monomers in the atmosphere reveals that nitric acid can drive early stages of particle formation just as efficiently as sulfuric acid. Our results lead us to believe that particle formation in the atmosphere results from the combination of many different molecules that are able to form highly stable complexes with acid molecules such as SA, NA, and FA.
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- Conor J Bready
- Department of Chemistry, Furman University Greenville South Carolina 29613 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Furman University Greenville South Carolina 29613 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Furman University Greenville South Carolina 29613 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Furman University Greenville South Carolina 29613 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Furman University Greenville South Carolina 29613 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Furman University Greenville South Carolina 29613 USA
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Syamlal SK, Sarath Kumar CB, Reji RP, Roshal PS, Sivalingam Y, Surya VJ. Hydration effect of selected atmospheric gases with finite water clusters: A quantum chemical investigation towards atmospheric implications. CHEMOSPHERE 2022; 307:135947. [PMID: 35948098 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2021] [Revised: 07/29/2022] [Accepted: 08/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Water vapor in atmosphere is ubiquitous, and it varies according to geographical locations. Various toxic and non-toxic gases co-exist with water vapor/moisture in the atmosphere. This computational study addresses the fact that how those gases interact with water vapor. We have done quantum chemical density functional theory calculations to probe the interaction of certain gases with a finite number of water molecules in gas phase with various functionals/basis sets. An ensemble of 14 gas molecules comprising various diatomic, triatomic, and polyatomic gases have been chosen for the investigations. The intermolecular interactions are understood from the interaction energy, electrostatic potential, frontier molecular orbitals, energy gap, and natural bond orbital analyses. Furthermore, quantum molecular descriptors such as electronegativity, chemical potential, chemical hardness and electrophilicity index are calculated to have deep insight on chemical nature of the gas molecules. Additionally, we have done implicit solvent modelling using PCM, and the corresponding solvation energies have been calculated. Interestingly, all the calculations and analyses have projected the similar results that Cl2, SO2, and NH3 have very high interaction with the water clusters. To mimic various altitudes (0 km, 5 km and 10 km) in the atmosphere, thermochemistry calculations have been carried out at different temperature and pressure values. The Gibbs free energies of formation suggest that the hydration of Cl2 is higher followed by O2, SO2 and NH3 at all altitudes. Remarkably, it is found that the formation of hydrated clusters of Cl2 and O2 with 4H2O are thermodynamically favourable. On the other hand, SO2 and NH3 requires 5H2O and 3H2O to form thermodynamically favourable clusters. In summary, it is anticipated that this kind of extensive computational studies facilitate to understand the structural, electronic, chemical and thermochemical properties of hydrated atmospheric gases that leads to the formation of prenucleation clusters followed by atmospheric aerosols.
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- S K Syamlal
- Novel, Advanced, and Applied Materials (NAAM) Laboratory, Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, 603203, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Novel, Advanced, and Applied Materials (NAAM) Laboratory, Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, 603203, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Novel, Advanced, and Applied Materials (NAAM) Laboratory, Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, 603203, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Novel, Advanced, and Applied Materials (NAAM) Laboratory, Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, 603203, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Laboratory of Sensors, Energy, and Electronic Devices (Lab SEED), Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, 603203, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Novel, Advanced, and Applied Materials (NAAM) Laboratory, Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, 603203, Tamil Nadu, India; New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Miyagi, Sendai, 980-8579, Japan.
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Ball BT, Vanovac S, Odbadrakh TT, Shields GC. Monomers of Glycine and Serine Have a Limited Ability to Hydrate in the Atmosphere. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:8454-8467. [PMID: 34529444 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c05466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The role of atmospheric aerosols on climate change is one of the biggest uncertainties in most global climate models. Organic aerosols have been identified as potential cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), and amino acids are organic molecules that could serve as CCN. Amino acids make up a significant portion of the total organic material in the atmosphere, and herein we present a systematic study of hydration for two of the most common atmospheric amino acids, glycine and serine. We compute DLPNO/CCSD(T)//M08-HX/MG3S thermodynamic properties and atmospheric concentrations of Gly(H2O)n and Ser(H2O)n, where n = 1-5. We predict that serine-water clusters have higher concentrations at n = 1 and 5, while glycine-water clusters have higher concentrations at n = 2-4. However, both glycine and serine are inferred to exist primarily in their nonhydrated monomer forms in the absence of other species such as sulfuric acid.
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- Benjamin T Ball
- Department of Chemistry, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina 29613, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina 29613, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina 29613, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina 29613, United States
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Kurfman LA, Odbadrakh TT, Shields GC. Calculating Reliable Gibbs Free Energies for Formation of Gas-Phase Clusters that Are Critical for Atmospheric Chemistry: (H 2SO 4) 3. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:3169-3176. [PMID: 33825467 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c00872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The effects of atmospheric aerosols on our climate are one of the biggest uncertainties in global climate models. Calculating the pathway for the formation of pre-nucleation clusters that become aerosols is challenging, requiring a comprehensive analysis of configurational space and highly accurate Gibbs free energy calculations. We identified a large set of minimum energy configurations of (H2SO4)3 using a sampling technique based on a genetic algorithm and a stepwise density functional theory (DFT) approach and computed the thermodynamics of formation of these configurations with more accurate wavefunction-based electronic energies computed on the DFT geometries. The DLPNO-CCSD(T) methods always return more positive energies compared to the DFT energies. Within the DLPNO-CCSD(T) methods, extrapolating to the complete basis set limit gives more positive free energies compared to explicitly correlated single-point energies. The CBS extrapolation was shown to be robust as both the 4-5 inverse polynomial and Riemann zeta function schemes were within chemical accuracy of one another.
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- Luke A Kurfman
- Department of Chemistry, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina 29613-0002, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina 29613-0002, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina 29613-0002, United States
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Zhao Z, Kong K, Wang S, Zhou Y, Cheng D, Wang W, Zeng XC, Li H. Understanding Hygroscopic Nucleation of Sulfate Aerosols: Combination of Molecular Dynamics Simulation with Classical Nucleation Theory. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:1126-1132. [PMID: 30798591 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b00152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We present a combined molecular dynamics (MD) and classical nucleation theory (CNT) approach to address many issues regarding the nucleation of inorganic aerosols. By taking parameters from MD simulations, we find the CNT predicts fairly reasonable free-energy profiles for the hygroscopic nucleation of aerosols. Moreover, we find that the ionization of sulfates can play a key role in stabilizing aqueous clusters and that both the size of the critical nucleus and the nucleation barrier can be significantly lowered by the H2SO4 and NH4HSO4, whereas the effect of NH3 on nucleation is negligible. NH4HSO4 provides stronger enhancement effect to aerosol formation than H2SO4. In view of the consistency between the theoretical prediction and experimental observation, the combination of MD simulation and CNT appears to be a valuable approach to gain deeper understanding of how aerosol nucleation is affected by different chemical species.
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- Zheng Zhao
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering , Beijing University of Chemical Technology , Beijing 100029 , China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering , Beijing University of Chemical Technology , Beijing 100029 , China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering , Beijing University of Chemical Technology , Beijing 100029 , China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering , Beijing University of Chemical Technology , Beijing 100029 , China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering , Beijing University of Chemical Technology , Beijing 100029 , China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering , Beijing University of Chemical Technology , Beijing 100029 , China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering , Beijing University of Chemical Technology , Beijing 100029 , China
- Department of Chemistry , University of Nebraska-Lincoln , Lincoln , Nebraska 68588 , United States
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering , Beijing University of Chemical Technology , Beijing 100029 , China
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Joranger T, Kildgaard JV, Jørgensen S, Elm J, Mikkelsen KV. Benchmarking sampling methodology for calculations of Rayleigh light scattering properties of atmospheric molecular clusters. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:17274-17287. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cp02573a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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We present four different computational methods for benchmarking the sampling and Rayleigh light scattering of hydrogen bonded atmospheric molecular clusters.
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- Teis Joranger
- Department of Chemistry
- University of Copenhagen
- 2100 Copenhagen Ø
- Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Copenhagen
- 2100 Copenhagen Ø
- Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry and iClimate
- Aarhus University
- 8000 Århus C
- Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Copenhagen
- 2100 Copenhagen Ø
- Denmark
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Clustering of sulfuric acid, bisulfate ion and organonitrate C10H15O10N: Thermodynamics and atmospheric implications. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2018.04.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Kildgaard JV, Mikkelsen KV, Bilde M, Elm J. Hydration of Atmospheric Molecular Clusters: A New Method for Systematic Configurational Sampling. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:5026-5036. [PMID: 29741906 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b02758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We present a new systematic configurational sampling algorithm for investigating the potential energy surface of hydrated atmospheric molecular clusters. The algorithm is based on creating a Fibonacci sphere around each atom in the cluster and adding water molecules to each point in nine different orientations. For the sampling of water molecules to existing hydrogen bonds, the cluster is displaced along the hydrogen bond, and a water molecule is placed in between in three different orientations. Generated redundant structures are eliminated based on minimizing the root-mean-square distance of different conformers. Initially, the clusters are sampled using the semiempirical PM6 method and subsequently using density functional theory (M06-2X and ωB97X-D) with the 6-31++G(d,p) basis set. Applying the developed algorithm, we study the hydration of sulfuric acid with up to 15 water molecules. We find that the addition of the first four water molecules "saturate" the sulfuric acid molecule and that they are more thermodynamically favorable than the addition of water molecules 5-15. Using the large generated set of conformers, we assess the performance of approximate methods (ωB97X-D, M06-2X, PW91, and PW6B95-D3) in calculating the binding energies and assigning the global minimum conformation compared to high level CCSD(T)-F12a/VDZ-F12 reference calculations. The tested DFT functionals systematically overestimate the binding energies compared to coupled cluster calculations, and we find that this deficiency can be corrected by a simple scaling factor.
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Copenhagen , Copenhagen , Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry and iClimate , Aarhus University , Aarhus , Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry and iClimate , Aarhus University , Aarhus , Denmark
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Wang CY, Jiang S, Liu YR, Wen H, Wang ZQ, Han YJ, Huang T, Huang W. Synergistic Effect of Ammonia and Methylamine on Nucleation in the Earth’s Atmosphere. A Theoretical Study. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:3470-3479. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b00681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Chun-Yu Wang
- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry, Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China
- School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry, Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry, Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China
- School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry, Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry, Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry, Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China
- School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Regional Atmospheric Environment, Xiamen, Fujian 361021, China
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Hirvonen V, Myllys N, Kurtén T, Elm J. Closed-Shell Organic Compounds Might Form Dimers at the Surface of Molecular Clusters. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:1771-1780. [PMID: 29364673 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b11970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The role of covalently bound dimer formation is studied using high-level quantum chemical methods. Reaction free energy profiles for dimer formation between common oxygen-containing functional groups are calculated, and based on the Gibbs free energy differences between transition states and reactants, we show that none of the studied two-component gas-phase reactions are kinetically feasible at 298.15 K and 1 atm. Therefore, the catalyzing effect of water, base, or acid molecules is calculated, and sulfuric acid is identified to lower the activation free energies significantly. We find that the reactions yielding hemiacetal, peroxyhemiacetal, α-hydroxyester, and geminal diol products occur with activation free energies of less than 10 kcal/mol with sulfuric acid as a catalyst, indicating that these reactions could potentially take place on the surface of sulfuric acid clusters. Additionally, the formed dimer products bind stronger onto the pre-existing cluster than the corresponding reagent monomers do. This implies that covalent dimerization reactions stabilize the existing cluster thermodynamically and make it less likely to evaporate. However, the studied small organic compounds, which contain only one functional group, are not able to form dimer products that are stable against evaporation at atmospheric conditions. Calculations of dimer formation onto a cluster surface and the clustering ability of dimer products should be extended to large terpene oxidation products in order to estimate the real atmospheric significance.
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- Viivi Hirvonen
- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki , 00100 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki , 00100 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki , 00100 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University , 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Temelso B, Morrison EF, Speer DL, Cao BC, Appiah-Padi N, Kim G, Shields GC. Effect of Mixing Ammonia and Alkylamines on Sulfate Aerosol Formation. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:1612-1622. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b11236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Berhane Temelso
- Provost’s
Office and Department of Chemistry, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina 29613, United States
- Dean’s
Office, College of Arts and Sciences, and Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837, United States
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- Dean’s
Office, College of Arts and Sciences, and Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837, United States
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- Dean’s
Office, College of Arts and Sciences, and Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837, United States
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- Dean’s
Office, College of Arts and Sciences, and Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837, United States
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- Dean’s
Office, College of Arts and Sciences, and Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837, United States
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- Dean’s
Office, College of Arts and Sciences, and Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837, United States
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- Provost’s
Office and Department of Chemistry, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina 29613, United States
- Dean’s
Office, College of Arts and Sciences, and Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837, United States
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Shevkunov SV. High-temperature stability of the hydrate shell of a Na+ cation in a flat nanopore with hydrophobic walls. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A 2017. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036024417150018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Myllys N, Olenius T, Kurtén T, Vehkamäki H, Riipinen I, Elm J. Effect of Bisulfate, Ammonia, and Ammonium on the Clustering of Organic Acids and Sulfuric Acid. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:4812-4824. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b03981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Nanna Myllys
- Department
of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland
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- Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry & Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland
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- Department
of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland
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- Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry & Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department
of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland
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Moreno-Fernandez G, Kunowsky M, Lillo-Ródenas MÁ, Ibañez J, Rojo JM. New Carbon Monoliths for Supercapacitor Electrodes. Looking at the Double Layer. ChemElectroChem 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/celc.201600848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Gelines Moreno-Fernandez
- Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM); Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC); Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 3 Cantoblanco 28049- Madrid Spain
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- MCMA Departamento de Química Inorgánica; Universidad de Alicante; San Vicente del Raspeig S/N 03080- Alicante Spain
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- MCMA Departamento de Química Inorgánica; Universidad de Alicante; San Vicente del Raspeig S/N 03080- Alicante Spain
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- Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Metalúrgicas (CENIM); CSIC, Avda. Gregorio del Amo, 8 28040- Madrid Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM); Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC); Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 3 Cantoblanco 28049- Madrid Spain
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Elm J, Myllys N, Olenius T, Halonen R, Kurtén T, Vehkamäki H. Formation of atmospheric molecular clusters consisting of sulfuric acid and C8H12O6 tricarboxylic acid. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:4877-4886. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp08127d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We present the structures and thermochemical properties of (MBTCA)1−3(H2SO4)1−4 atmospheric molecular clusters.
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- Jonas Elm
- Division of Atmospheric Sciences
- Department of Physics
- University of Helsinki
- FI-00014 Helsinki
- Finland
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- Division of Atmospheric Sciences
- Department of Physics
- University of Helsinki
- FI-00014 Helsinki
- Finland
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- Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES) and Bolin Centre for Climate Research
- Stockholm University
- 10691 Stockholm
- Sweden
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- Division of Atmospheric Sciences
- Department of Physics
- University of Helsinki
- FI-00014 Helsinki
- Finland
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Helsinki
- FI-00014 Helsinki
- Finland
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- Division of Atmospheric Sciences
- Department of Physics
- University of Helsinki
- FI-00014 Helsinki
- Finland
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Elm J, Kristensen K. Basis set convergence of the binding energies of strongly hydrogen-bonded atmospheric clusters. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:1122-1133. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp06851k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We present the first binding energy benchmark set at the CBS limit of strongly hydrogen bonded atmospheric molecular clusters.
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- Jonas Elm
- Division of Atmospheric Sciences
- Department of Physics
- University of Helsinki
- Finland
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- qLEAP Center for Theoretical Chemistry
- Department of Chemistry
- Aarhus University
- Denmark
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Partanen L, Hänninen V, Halonen L. Effects of Global and Local Anharmonicities on the Thermodynamic Properties of Sulfuric Acid Monohydrate. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 12:5511-5524. [PMID: 27662456 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We use state-of-the-art electronic structure calculation methods and large basis sets to obtain reliable values for the thermodynamic properties of sulfuric acid monohydrate and study the effects of vibrational anharmonicity on these properties. We distinguish between two forms of vibrational anharmonicity: local anharmonicity, which refers to the anharmonicity of the vibrational modes of a given cluster conformer, and global anharmonicity, which originates from accounting for the presence of different conformers in the first place. In our most accurate approach, we solve the nuclear Schrödinger equation variationally for the intermolecular large-amplitude motions, thus quantum-mechanically accounting for the presence of higher-energy conformers for both reactants and products, while using the standard vibrational perturbational approach for the other vibrational modes. This results in a value of -11.0 kJ/mol for the reaction Gibbs free energy at 298.15 K. When standard vibrational perturbational approaches are employed, the effects of local anharmonicity depend heavily on the choice of the electronic structure calculation basis set. In fact, better results can often be achieved by combining a simple harmonic treatment for the vibrational partition function with a statistical mechanical accounting of global anharmonicity. Thus, we recommend that future studies that intend to include anharmonicity start by accounting for the presence of higher-energy conformers and only then consider whether local anharmonicity calculations are feasible and necessary.
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- Lauri Partanen
- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki , P.O. Box 55, A.I. Virtasen aukio 1, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki , P.O. Box 55, A.I. Virtasen aukio 1, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki , P.O. Box 55, A.I. Virtasen aukio 1, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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Partanen L, Vehkamäki H, Hansen K, Elm J, Henschel H, Kurtén T, Halonen R, Zapadinsky E. Effect of Conformers on Free Energies of Atmospheric Complexes. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:8613-8624. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b04452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Lauri Partanen
- Laboratory
of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 55 (A.I. Virtasen aukio 1), FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Department
of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64 (Gustaff Hällströmin
katu 2a), FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Tianjin
International Center of Nanoparticles and Nanosystems, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Nankai district, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China
- Department
of Physics, University of Gothenburg, 41296 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department
of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64 (Gustaff Hällströmin
katu 2a), FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Department
of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64 (Gustaff Hällströmin
katu 2a), FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Laboratory
of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 55 (A.I. Virtasen aukio 1), FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Department
of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64 (Gustaff Hällströmin
katu 2a), FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Department
of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64 (Gustaff Hällströmin
katu 2a), FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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Myllys N, Elm J, Halonen R, Kurtén T, Vehkamäki H. Coupled Cluster Evaluation of the Stability of Atmospheric Acid–Base Clusters with up to 10 Molecules. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:621-30. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b09762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Nanna Myllys
- University of Helsinki, Department of Physics, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- University of Helsinki, Department of Physics, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- University of Helsinki, Department of Physics, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- University of Helsinki, Department of Chemistry, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- University of Helsinki, Department of Physics, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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Liu J, Fang S, Bing Q, Tao FM, Liu JY. Theoretical study of the auto-catalyzed hydrolysis reaction of sulfur dioxide. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2015.11.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Ma Y, Chen J, Jiang S, Liu YR, Huang T, Miao SK, Wang CY, Huang W. Characterization of the nucleation precursor (H2SO4–(CH3)2NH) complex: intra-cluster interactions and atmospheric relevance. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra22887e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Amines have been proposed to participate in the nucleation process, but the electron density analysis and the determination of a temperature dependence of the clusters are still lacking.
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- Yan Ma
- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry
- Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Hefei
- China
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry
- Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Hefei
- China
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry
- Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Hefei
- China
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry
- Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Hefei
- China
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry
- Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Hefei
- China
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry
- Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Hefei
- China
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry
- Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Hefei
- China
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry
- Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Hefei
- China
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Liu J, Fang S, Wang Z, Yi W, Tao FM, Liu JY. Hydrolysis of Sulfur Dioxide in Small Clusters of Sulfuric Acid: Mechanistic and Kinetic Study. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2015; 49:13112-13120. [PMID: 26450714 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b02977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The deposition and hydrolysis reaction of SO2 + H2O in small clusters of sulfuric acid and water are studied by theoretical calculations of the molecular clusters SO2-(H2SO4)n-(H2O)m (m = 1,2; n = 1,2). Sulfuric acid exhibits a dramatic catalytic effect on the hydrolysis reaction of SO2 as it lowers the energy barrier by over 20 kcal/mol. The reaction with monohydrated sulfuric acid (SO2 + H2O + H2SO4 - H2O) has the lowest energy barrier of 3.83 kcal/mol, in which the cluster H2SO4-(H2O)2 forms initially at the entrance channel. The energy barriers for the three hydrolysis reactions are in the order SO2 + (H2SO4)-H2O > SO2 + (H2SO4)2-H2O > SO2 + H2SO4-H2O. Furthermore, sulfurous acid is more strongly bonded to the hydrated sulfuric acid (or dimer) clusters than the corresponding reactant (monohydrated SO2). Consequently, sulfuric acid promotes the hydrolysis of SO2 both kinetically and thermodynamically. Kinetics simulations have been performed to study the importance of these reactions in the reduction of atmospheric SO2. The results will give a new insight on how the pre-existing aerosols catalyze the hydrolysis of SO2, leading to the formation and growth of new particles.
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- Jingjing Liu
- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University , Changchun 130023, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University , Changchun 130023, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University , Changchun 130023, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University , Changchun 130023, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University , Fullerton, California 92834, United States
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University , Changchun 130023, People's Republic of China
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Tsona NT, Henschel H, Bork N, Loukonen V, Vehkamäki H. Structures, Hydration, and Electrical Mobilities of Bisulfate Ion–Sulfuric Acid–Ammonia/Dimethylamine Clusters: A Computational Study. J Phys Chem A 2015; 119:9670-9. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b03030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Narcisse T. Tsona
- Division
of Atmospheric Sciences,
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Division
of Atmospheric Sciences,
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Division
of Atmospheric Sciences,
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Division
of Atmospheric Sciences,
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Division
of Atmospheric Sciences,
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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Estimating the Lower Limit of the Impact of Amines on Nucleation in the Earth’s Atmosphere. ENTROPY 2015. [DOI: 10.3390/e17052764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Liu J, Fang S, Liu W, Wang M, Tao FM, Liu JY. Mechanism of the Gaseous Hydrolysis Reaction of SO2: Effects of NH3 versus H2O. J Phys Chem A 2014; 119:102-11. [DOI: 10.1021/jp5086075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Jingjing Liu
- Institute of Theoretical
Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute of Theoretical
Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute of Theoretical
Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute of Theoretical
Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, People’s Republic of China
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Fullerton, California 92834, United States
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- Institute of Theoretical
Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, People’s Republic of China
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Zhu YP, Liu YR, Huang T, Jiang S, Xu KM, Wen H, Zhang WJ, Huang W. Theoretical Study of the Hydration of Atmospheric Nucleation Precursors with Acetic Acid. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:7959-74. [DOI: 10.1021/jp506226z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Yu-Peng Zhu
- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry, Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry, Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry, Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry, Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry, Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry, Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry, Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China
- School of Environmental Science & Optoelectronic Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry, Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China
- School of Environmental Science & Optoelectronic Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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Elm J, Norman P, Bilde M, Mikkelsen KV. Computational study of the Rayleigh light scattering properties of atmospheric pre-nucleation clusters. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:10883-90. [PMID: 24763512 DOI: 10.1039/c4cp01206b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The Rayleigh and hyper Rayleigh scattering properties of the binary (H2SO4)(H2O)n and ternary (H2SO4)(NH3)(H2O)n clusters are investigated using a quantum mechanical response theory approach. The molecular Rayleigh scattering intensities are expressed using the dipole polarizability α and hyperpolarizability β tensors. Using density functional theory, we elucidate the effect of cluster morphology on the scattering properties using a combinatorial sampling approach. We find that the Rayleigh scattering intensity depends quadratically on the number of water molecules in the cluster and that a single ammonia molecule is able to induce a high anisotropy, which further increases the scattering intensity. The hyper Rayleigh scattering activities are found to be extremely low. This study presents the first attempt to map the scattering of atmospheric molecular clusters using a bottom-up approach.
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- Jonas Elm
- Department of Chemistry, H. C. Ørsted Institute, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Hudait A, Molinero V. Ice Crystallization in Ultrafine Water–Salt Aerosols: Nucleation, Ice-Solution Equilibrium, and Internal Structure. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:8081-93. [DOI: 10.1021/ja503311r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- Arpa Hudait
- Department
of Chemistry, The University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Salt
Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, The University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Salt
Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, United States
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Bustos DJ, Temelso B, Shields GC. Hydration of the Sulfuric Acid–Methylamine Complex and Implications for Aerosol Formation. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:7430-41. [DOI: 10.1021/jp500015t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- Danielle J. Bustos
- Dean’s Office, College
of Arts and Sciences, and Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837, United States
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- Dean’s Office, College
of Arts and Sciences, and Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837, United States
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- Dean’s Office, College
of Arts and Sciences, and Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837, United States
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Temelso B, Alser KA, Gauthier A, Palmer AK, Shields GC. Structural Analysis of α-Fetoprotein (AFP)-like Peptides with Anti-Breast-Cancer Properties. J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:4514-26. [DOI: 10.1021/jp500017b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Berhane Temelso
- Dean’s
Office, College of Arts and Sciences, and Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837, United States
- Dean’s Office, College of Science and Technology, and Department of Chemistry & Physics, Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn Street, Savannah, Georgia 31419, United States
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- Dean’s
Office, College of Arts and Sciences, and Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837, United States
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- Dean’s Office, College of Science and Technology, and Department of Chemistry & Physics, Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn Street, Savannah, Georgia 31419, United States
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- Dean’s Office, College of Science and Technology, and Department of Chemistry & Physics, Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn Street, Savannah, Georgia 31419, United States
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- Dean’s
Office, College of Arts and Sciences, and Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837, United States
- Dean’s Office, College of Science and Technology, and Department of Chemistry & Physics, Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn Street, Savannah, Georgia 31419, United States
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Rozenberg M, Loewenschuss A, Nielsen CJ. Trimethylamine/Sulfuric Acid/Water Clusters: A Matrix Isolation Infrared Study. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:1004-11. [DOI: 10.1021/jp410922x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Mark Rozenberg
- Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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- Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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- Centre for Theoretical and Computational
Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, 1033 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway
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Elm J, Fard M, Bilde M, Mikkelsen KV. Interaction of Glycine with Common Atmospheric Nucleation Precursors. J Phys Chem A 2013; 117:12990-7. [DOI: 10.1021/jp408962c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Jonas Elm
- Department
of Chemistry, H. C. Ørsted Institute, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department
of Chemistry, H. C. Ørsted Institute, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department
of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, DK-8000 Århus C, Denmark
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- Department
of Chemistry, H. C. Ørsted Institute, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Structure and thermodynamics of H3O+(H2O)8 clusters: A combined molecular dynamics and quantum mechanics approach. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2013.07.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Elm J, Bilde M, Mikkelsen KV. Influence of Nucleation Precursors on the Reaction Kinetics of Methanol with the OH Radical. J Phys Chem A 2013; 117:6695-701. [DOI: 10.1021/jp4051269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Jonas Elm
- Department of Chemistry, H.
C. Ørsted Institute, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, DK-8000 Århus
C, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, H.
C. Ørsted Institute, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Hou GL, Lin W, Deng SHM, Zhang J, Zheng WJ, Paesani F, Wang XB. Negative Ion Photoelectron Spectroscopy Reveals Thermodynamic Advantage of Organic Acids in Facilitating Formation of Bisulfate Ion Clusters: Atmospheric Implications. J Phys Chem Lett 2013; 4:779-785. [PMID: 26281932 DOI: 10.1021/jz400108y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
Abstract
Recent lab and field measurements have indicated critical roles of organic acids in enhancing new atmospheric aerosol formation. Such findings have stimulated theoretical studies with the aim of understanding the interaction of organic acids with common aerosol nucleation precursors like bisulfate (HSO4(-)). We report a combined negative ion photoelectron spectroscopic and theoretical investigation of molecular clusters formed by HSO4(-) with succinic acid (SUA, HO2C(CH2)2CO2H), HSO4(-)(SUA)n (n = 0-2), along with HSO4(-)(H2O)n and HSO4(-)(H2SO4)n. It is found that one SUA molecule can stabilize HSO4(-) by ca. 39 kcal/mol, three times the corresponding value that one water molecule is capable of (ca. 13 kcal/mol). Molecular dynamics simulations and quantum chemical calculations reveal the most plausible structures of these clusters and attribute the stability of these clusters to the formation of strong hydrogen bonds. This work provides direct experimental evidence showing significant thermodynamic advantage by involving organic acid molecules to promote formation and growth in bisulfate clusters and aerosols.
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- Gao-Lei Hou
- †Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- §Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- †Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- §Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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Elm J, Bilde M, Mikkelsen KV. Assessment of binding energies of atmospherically relevant clusters. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013; 15:16442-5. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cp52616j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Herb J, Xu Y, Yu F, Nadykto AB. Large Hydrogen-Bonded Pre-nucleation (HSO4–)(H2SO4)m(H2O)kand (HSO4–)(NH3)(H2SO4)m(H2O)k Clusters in the Earth’s Atmosphere. J Phys Chem A 2012; 117:133-52. [DOI: 10.1021/jp3088435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Jason Herb
- Atmospheric Sciences Research
Center, State University of New York at Albany, 251 Fuller Road, Albany, New York 12203, United States
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- Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosol
Research Division, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Science, Beijing 100012, China
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- Atmospheric Sciences Research
Center, State University of New York at Albany, 251 Fuller Road, Albany, New York 12203, United States
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- Atmospheric Sciences Research
Center, State University of New York at Albany, 251 Fuller Road, Albany, New York 12203, United States
- Department of Applied Mathematics, Moscow State Unversity of Technology “Stankin”, Vadkovsky 1-3, Moscow, Russia
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Yu JJ, Zhang YH, Li ZS. Intermolecular Vibration Coupling between Libration of Water and ν2-SOH for Clusters HSO4–(H2O)n. J Phys Chem B 2012; 116:12597-604. [DOI: 10.1021/jp307534h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Jing-Jing Yu
- The Institute for Chemical Physics,
School of Science, Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of
Education, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, People’s Republic of China
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- The Institute for Chemical Physics,
School of Science, Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of
Education, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, People’s Republic of China
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- The Institute for Chemical Physics,
School of Science, Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of
Education, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, People’s Republic of China
- Academy of Fundamental and Interdisciplinary
Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150008, People’s Republic of China
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Temelso B, Phan TN, Shields GC. Computational Study of the Hydration of Sulfuric Acid Dimers: Implications for Acid Dissociation and Aerosol Formation. J Phys Chem A 2012; 116:9745-58. [DOI: 10.1021/jp3054394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Berhane Temelso
- Dean’s Office, College of Arts and Sciences,
and Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837,
United States
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- Dean’s Office, College of Arts and Sciences,
and Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837,
United States
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- Dean’s Office, College of Arts and Sciences,
and Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837,
United States
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