化学
乙二醛
甲基乙二醛
反应速率常数
水溶液
光化学
吸收(声学)
无机化学
动力学
有机化学
物理
量子力学
声学
酶
作者
Lü Yang,Ru‐Jin Huang,Wei Yuan,Dan Dan Huang,Cheng Huang
标识
DOI:10.1021/acs.est.3c07631
摘要
Aqueous-phase reactions of α-dicarbonyls with amines or ammonium have been identified as important sources of secondary brown carbon (BrC). However, the kinetics of BrC formation and the effects of pH are still not very clear. In this study, the kinetics of BrC formation by aqueous reactions of α-dicarbonyls (glyoxal and methylglyoxal) with ammonium, amino acids, or alkylamines in bulk solution at different pH values are investigated. Our results reveal pH-parameterized BrC production rate constants, kBrCII (m–1 [M]−2 s–1), based on the light absorption between 300 and 500 nm: log10(kBrCII) = (1.0 ± 0.1) × pH – (7.4 ± 1.0) for reactions with glyoxal and log10(kBrCII) = (1.0 ± 0.1) × pH – (6.3 ± 0.9) for reactions with methylglyoxal. The linear slopes closing to 1.0 indicate that BrC formation is governed by the nitrogen nucleophilic addition pathway. Consequently, the absorptivities of the produced BrC increase exponentially with the increase of pH. BrC from reactions with methylglyoxal at higher pH (≥6.5) exhibits optical properties comparable to BrC from biomass burning or coal combustion, categorized as the “weakly” absorbing BrC, while BrC from reactions with methylglyoxal at lower pH (<6.0) or reactions with glyoxal (pH 5.0–7.0) falls into the “very weakly” absorbing BrC. The pH-dependent BrC feature significantly affects the solar absorption ability of the produced BrC and thus the atmospheric photochemical processes, e.g., BrC produced at pH 7.0 absorbs 14–16 times more solar power compared to that at pH 5.0, which in turn could lead to a decrease of 1 order of magnitude in the photolysis rate constants of O3 and NO2.
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