A photochemical source of peroxypropionic and peroxyisobutanoic nitric anhydride

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 28, 2011, Pages 5025-5032

  Furgeson, Amanda ^a   Mielke, Levi H ^a   Paul, Dipayan ^a   Osthoff, Hans D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calibration; In situ photolysis source; Peroxycarboxylic nitric anhydrides (PAN); Peroxyisobutanoic nitric anhydride (PiBN); Peroxypropionic nitric anhydride (PPN); Thermal dissociation cavity ring down spectroscopy (TD CRDS); Thermal dissociation chemical ionization mass spectrometry (TD CIMS)

Indexed keywords

IN-SITU; PEROXYCARBOXYLIC NITRIC ANHYDRIDES (PAN); PEROXYISOBUTANOIC NITRIC ANHYDRIDE (PIBN); PEROXYPROPIONIC NITRIC ANHYDRIDE (PPN); THERMAL DISSOCIATION;

ACETONE; HEATING; IONIZATION OF GASES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHOTOLYSIS; SPECTROMETERS; STANDARDS;

DISSOCIATION;

ACETONE; ACID ANHYDRIDE; ALKYL GROUP; IODIDE; KETONE DERIVATIVE; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OXYGEN; PEROXYACETIC NITRIC ANHYDRIDE; PEROXYISOBUTANOIC NITRIC ANHYDRIDE; PEROXYPROPIONIC NITRIC ANHYDRIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETONE; CALIBRATION; CARBOXYLIC ACID; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOLYSIS; STANDARD (REGULATION);

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; DIFFUSION; DISSOCIATION; HEATING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROMETER; SPECTROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS; THERMAL DISSOCIATION CAVITY RING DOWN SPECTROSCOPY; THERMAL DISSOCIATION CHEMICAL IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETY;

EID: 79960585239     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.03.072     Document Type: Article

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