Gas-phase absorption cross sections of 24 monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the UV and IR spectral ranges

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 525-540

  Etzkorn, Thomas ^a   Klotz, Björn ^b   Sørensen, Søren ^b   Patroescu, Iulia V ^b   Barnes, Ian ^b   Becker, Karl H ^b   Platt, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absorption cross sections; Aromatic hydrocarbons; DOAS; FT IR; Integrated band intensities

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BENZENE; DERIVATIVES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GAS ABSORPTION; OXIDATION; QUARTZ APPLICATIONS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

DIFFERENTIAL OPTICAL ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY (DOAS); MONOCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; GAS PHASE REACTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ABSORPTION SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; INFRARED SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; URBAN AREA;

EID: 0033081434     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(98)00289-1     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Akiyama, M., 1982. Infrared band intensities and the complete quadratic force field for planar vibrations of gaseous benzene. Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy 93, 154-163.
2. 2 concentration. International Journal of Chemical Kinetics. 26, 929-944.
3. Axelsson, H., Eilard, A., Emanuelsson, A., Galle, B., Edner, H., Ragnarson, P., Kloo, H., 1994. Measurements of aromatic hydrocarbons with the DOAS technique. Applied Spectroscopy 49, 1254-1260.
4. Barnes, I., Becker, K.H., Mihalopoulos N., 1994. An FTIR product study of the photooxidation of dimethyl disulfide. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry 18, 267-289.
5. Bertie, J.E., Keefe, C.D., 1994. Comparison of infrared absorption intensities of benzene in the liquid and gas phases. Journal of Chemical Physics 101, 4610-4616.
6. 2O radicals. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 101, 3514-3525.
7. Brocco, D., Fratarcagelli, R., Lepore, L., Petricca, M., Ventrone I., 1997. Determination of aromatic hydrocarbons in urban air of Rome. Atmospheric Environment 31, 79-90.
8. Barrefors, G., 1996. Monitoring of benzene, toluene and p-xylene in urban air with Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy technique. Science of the Total Environment 189/190, 287-292.
9. Carter, W.P.L., 1995. Computer modeling of environmental chamber measurements of maximum incremental reactivities of volatile organic compounds. Atmospheric Environment 18, 2513-2527.
10. Dearth, M.A., Glerczak, C.C., Siegl, W.O., 1992. On-line measurement of benzene and toluene in dilute vehicle exhaust by mass spectrometry. Environmental Science Technology 26, 1573-1580.
11. Derwent, R.G., Jenkin, M.E., Saunders, S.M., 1996. Photochemical ozone creation potentials for a large number of reactive hydrocarbons under European conditions. Atmospheric Environment 30, 181-199.
12. Dumdei, B.E., Kenny, D., Shepson, P.B., Kleindierst, T.E., Nero, C.M., Cupitt, L.T., Claxton, L.D., 1988. MS/MS analysis of the products of toluene photo-oxidation and measurement of their mutagenic activity. Environmental Science and Technology 22, 14-30
13. Fehsenfeld, F., Calvert, J., Fall, R., Goldan, P., Guenthner, A.B., Hewitt, C.N., Lamb, B., Liu, S., Trainer, M., Westberg, H., Zimmerman, P., 1992. Emissions of volatile organic compounds from vegetation and the implications for atmospheric chemistry. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 6, 389-430.
14. Gao, D., Stockwell, W.R., Milford J.B., 1995. First-order sensitivity analysis for a regional-scale gas-phase chemical mechanism. Journal of Geophysical Research 100, 23153-23166.
15. Golding, B.T., Kennedy, G., Watson, W.P., 1988. Simple synthesis of isomers of muconaldehyde and 2-methyl-muconaldehyde. Tetrahedron Letters 29, 5991-5994.
16. 1u force field solutions through infrared intensities. Journal of Chemical Physics 91, 2069-2080.
17. Greenberg, J.P., Zimmermann, P.R., Heidt, L., Pollock, L.W., 1984. Hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide emissions from biomass burning in Brazil. Journal of Geophysical Research 89, 1350-1354.
18. Hallstadius, H., Unéus, Wallin S., 1991. A system for evaluation of trace gas concentration in the atmosphere, based on the differential optical absorption spectroscopy technique. Proceedings of the SPIE 1433, 36-43.
19. Klotz, B., Bierbach, A., Barnes, I., Becker, K.H., 1995. Kinetic and mechanistic study of the atmospheric chemistry of muconaldehydes. Environmental Science and Technology 29, 2322-2332.
20. Klotz, B., Barnes, I., Becker, K.H., Golding, B.T., 1997. Atmospheric chemistry of benzene oxide/oxepin. Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions 93, 1507-1516.
21. Löfgren, L., 1992. Determination of benzene and toluene in urban air with differential optical absorption spectroscopy. International Journal of Environmental and Analytical Chemistry 47, 69-74.
22. Marshall, T.L., Chaffin, C.T., Hammaker, R.M., Fateley, W.G., 1994. Open-path FT-IR atmospheric monitoring. Environmental Science and Technology 28, 224A-231A.
23. Milton, M.J.T., Woods, P.T., Jolliffe, B.W., Swann, N.R.W., McIlveen, T.J., 1992. Measurements of toluene and other aromatic hydrocarbons by differential-absorption LIDAR in the near-ultraviolet. Applied Physics B 55, 41-45.
24. Niki, H., Maker, P.D., Savage, C.M., Breitenbach, L.P., 1983. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) studies are being conducted to answer questions concerning the chemical mechanism of atmospheric ozone - olefin reactions. Environmental Science and Technology 17, 312A-322A.
25. Odum, J.R., Jungkamp, T.P.W., Griffin, R.J., Forstner, H.J.L., Flagan, R.C., Seinfeld, J.H., 1997a. Aromatics, reformulated gasoline and atmospheric organic aerosol formation. Environmental Science and Technology 31, 1890-1897.
26. Odum, J.R., Jungkamp, T.P.W., Griffin, R.J., Flagan, R.C., Seinfeld, J.H., 1997b. The atmospheric aerosol-forming potential of whole gasoline vapor. Science 276, 96-99.
27. Overend, J, 1963. Infra-red Spectroscopy and Molecular Structure: An Outline of the Principles, Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 368.
28. Pantos, E., Philis, J., Bolovinos, A., 1978. The extinction coefficient of benzene vapor in the region 4.6 to 36 eV. Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy. 72, 36-43.
29. Platt, U., 1994. Differential optical absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS). In: Sigrist, M.W. (Ed.), Monitoring by Spectroscopic Techniques. Wiley, New York.
30. Piccot, S.D., Watson, J.J., Jones, J.W., 1992. A global inventory of volatile organic compound emissions from anthropogenic sources. Journal of Geophysical Research, 97, 9897-9912.
31. Pitts, J.N., Jr., Finlayson-Pitts, B.J., Winer, A.M., 1977. Optical systems unravel smog chemistry. Environmental Science and Technology 11, 568-573.
32. Pouchert, C.J., 1989. The Aldrich library of FT-IR spectra: vapor phase, vol. 3. Aldrich Chemical Company, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
33. 2O/air mixtures. Environmental Science and Technology 19, 249-255.
34. Spedding, H., Whiffen, D.H., 1956. Intensities in the infra-red spectrum of benzene. Procedings of the Royal Society of (London) Series A 238, 245-255.
35. Stevens, R.K., Vossler, T.L., 1991. DOAS urban pollution measurements. Proceedings of the SPIE 1433, 25-35.
36. Stutz, J., 1996. Messungen der Konzentrationen troposphärischer Spurenstoffe mittels Differentieller Optischer Absorptionspektroskopie: Eine neue Generation von Geräten und Algorithmen. Dissertation, Institut für Umweltphysik, Universität Heidelberg.
37. Stutz, J., Platt, U., 1996. Numerical analysis and estimation of the statistical error of Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy measurements with least-squares methods. Applied Optics 35 (30), 6041-6053.
38. Stutz, J., Platt, U., 1997. Improving long-path Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy with a quartz fiber mode mixer. Applied Optics 36 (6), 1105-1115.
39. Suto, M., Wang, X., Shan, J., Lee, L.C., 1992. Quantitative photoabsorption and fluorescence spectroscopy of benzene, naphtalene, and some derivatives at 106-295 nm. Journal of Quantum Spectroscopy Radiative Transfer 48, (1), 79-89.
40. Timmermans, M.J., Hennaut-Roland, Mme, 1932. Travaux du Bureau International d'Étalons Physico-Chimiques. V. Étude des Constantes Physiques de Vingt Composés Organiques. Journal of Chemical Physics 29, 529-568.
41. Trost, B., Stutz, J., Platt, U., 1997. UV-Absorption cross sections of a series of monocyclic aromatic compounds. Atmospheric Environment 31, 3999-4008.
42. Volkamer, R., Etzkorn, T., Geyer, A., Platt, U., 1997. Correction of the oxygen interference with UV spectroscopic measurements of monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the atmosphere. Atmospheric Environment, submitted.
43. Westerholm, R., Almén, J., Li, H., Rannung, U., Rosén, A., 1992. Exhaust emissions from gasoline-fuelled light duty vehicles operated in different driving conditions: a chemical and biological characterization. Atmospheric Environment 26B, 79-90.
44. Wilkerson, T.D., Fraize, W.E., Price, B.H., 1992. Long-path UV spectroscopic and in situ measurements of air pollutants in the Washington DC and middle Atlantic regions. Proceedings of the SPIE 1715, 267-285.