The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Highly Cited: Aerosols and Atmospheric Chemistry

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A publishes experimental, theoretical, and computational research on the physical chemistry of molecules, ions, radicals, clusters, and aerosols.

In this collection, we showcase articles in the areas of aerosols and atmospheric chemistry, published in 2019 and 2020, that researchers have been reading, sharing, and citing.

Aerosols

Atmospheric Chemistry

Aerosols Articles

Heterogeneous Interactions between Gas-Phase Pyruvic Acid and Hydroxylated Silica Surfaces: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study

Yuan Fang, Dominika Lesnicki, Kristin J. Wall,

Marie-Pierre Gaigeot, Marialore Sulpizi, Veronica Vaida, and Vicki H. Grassian

Contrary Role of H₂O and O₂ in the Kinetics of Heterogeneous Photochemical Reactions of SO₂on TiO₂

Qingxin Ma, Ling Wang, Biwu Chu, Jinzhu Ma, and Hong He

Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Aromatic Alkene Ozonolysis: Influence of the Precursor Structure on Yield, Chemical Composition, and Mechanism

Laura Chiappini, Emilie Perraudin, Nicolas Maurin,

Bénédicte Picquet-Varrault, Wuyin Zheng, Nicolas Marchand, Brice Temime-Roussel, Anne Monod, Annaig Le Person, François Bernard, Gregory Eyglunent, Abdelwahid Mellouki, and Jean-Francois Doussin

On the Rise: Experimental and Computational Vibrational Sum Frequency Spectroscopy Studies of Pyruvic Acid and Its Surface-Active Oligomer Species at the Air–Water Interface

Brittany P. Gordon, Frederick G. Moore, Lawrence F. Scatena, and Geraldine L. Richmond

Complexity of Measuring and Representing the Hygroscopicity of Mixed Component Aerosol

Aleksandra Marsh, Grazia Rovelli, Rachael E. H. Miles, and Jonathan P. Reid

The Effect of Crystallinity and Crystal Structure on the Immersion Freezing of Alumina

Esther Chong, Megan King, Katherine E. Marak, and

Miriam Arak Freedman

Photoemission of Iodide from Aqueous Aerosol Particle Surfaces

Ephraim Woods III, Casey A. Konys, and Sean R. Rossi

Interfaces of Gas–Aerosol Particles: Relative Humidity and Salt Concentration Effects

Yuqin Qian, Gang-hua Deng, Jordan Lapp, and Yi Rao

Simultaneous Retrieval of the Size and Refractive Index of Suspended Droplets in a Linear Quadrupole Electrodynamic Balance

Chelsea L. Price, Alison Bain, Brandon J. Wallace,

Thomas C. Preston, and James F. Davies

Interfacial Dimerization by Organic Radical Reactions during Heterogeneous Oxidative Aging of Oxygenated Organic Aerosols

Zixu Zhao, Ricardo Tolentino, Jennifer Lee, Austin Vuong, Xiaoyan Yang, and Haofei Zhang

Effects of pH on Interfacial Ozonolysis of α-Terpineol

Junting Qiu, Shinnosuke Ishizuka, Kenichi Tonokura, Kei Sato, Satoshi Inomata, and Shinichi Enami

Interfaces of Gas–Aerosol Particles: Relative Humidity and Salt Concentration Effects

Yuqin Qian, Gang-hua Deng, Jordan Lapp, and Yi Rao

Experimental Study of the Formation of Organosulfates from α-Pinene Oxidation. 2. Time Evolution and Effect of Particle Acidity

G. Duporté, P.-M. Flaud, J. Kammer, E. Geneste,

S. Augagneur, E. Pangui, H. Lamkaddam, A. Gratien,

J.-F. Doussin, H. Budzinski, E. Villenave, and E. Perraudin

Using Nanoparticle X-ray Spectroscopy to Probe the Formation of Reactive Chemical Gradients in Diffusion-Limited Aerosols

Michael I. Jacobs, Bo Xu, Oleg Kostko, Aaron A. Wiegel, Frances A. Houle, Musahid Ahmed, and Kevin R. Wilson

Organic Surfactants Protect Dissolved Aerosol Components against Heterogeneous Oxidation

Jennifer A. Faust and Jonathan P. D. Abbatt

Atmospheric Chemistry Articles

Kinetic Study of Ni and NiO Reactions Pertinent to the Earth’s Upper Atmosphere

Thomas P. Mangan, Nathanial McAdam, Shane M. Daly, and John M. C. Plane

The Importance of Peroxy Radical Hydrogen-Shift Reactions in Atmospheric Isoprene Oxidation

Kristian H. Møller, Kelvin H. Bates, and Henrik G. Kjaergaard

Unimolecular Reactions of Peroxy Radicals Formed in the Oxidation of α-Pinene and β-Pinene by Hydroxyl Radicals

Lu Xu, Kristian H. Møller, John D. Crounse, Rasmus V. Otkjær, Henrik G. Kjaergaard, and Paul O. Wennberg

OH-Initiated Oxidation of Imidazoles in Tropospheric Aqueous-Phase Chemistry

Tamara Felber, Thomas Schaefer, and Hartmut Herrmann

Computational Study on the Photolysis of BrHgONO and the Reactions of BrHgO^• with CH₄, C₂H₆, NO, and NO₂: Implications for Formation of Hg(II) Compounds in the Atmosphere

Khoa T. Lam, Curtis J. Wilhelmsen, Abraham C. Schwid,

Yuge Jiao, and Theodore S. Dibble

Mechanisms and Kinetic Parameters for the Gas-Phase Reactions of 3-Methyl-3-buten-2-one and 3-Methyl-3-penten-2-one with Ozone

Xueyu Wang, Jianfei Sun, Lei Bao, Qiong Mei, Bo Wei,

Zexiu An, Ju Xie, and Maoxia He

A Consistent Reduced Network for HCN Chemistry in Early Earth and Titan Atmospheres: Quantum Calculations of Reaction Rate Coefficients

Ben K. D. Pearce, Paul W. Ayers, and Ralph E. Pudritz

Insights into the Reactions of Hydroxyl Radical with Diolefins from Atmospheric to Combustion Environments

Fethi Khaled, Binod Raj Giri, Dapeng Liu, Emmanuel Assaf, Christa Fittschen, and Aamir Farooq

Polyatomic Iodine Species at the Air–Water Interface and Its Relevance to Atmospheric Iodine Chemistry: An HD-VSFG and Raman-MCR Study

Subhamoy Saha, Subhadip Roy, P. Mathi, and

Jahur A. Mondal

Atmospheric Chemistry of Enols: Vinyl Alcohol + OH + O₂ Reaction Revisited

Xiaoyang Lei, Weina Wang, Jie Cai, Changwei Wang,

Fengyi Liu, and Wenliang Wang

Configurational Sampling of Noncovalent (Atmospheric) Molecular Clusters: Sulfuric Acid and Guanidine

Jakub Kubečka, Vitus Besel, Theo Kurtén, Nanna Myllys, and Hanna Vehkamäki

Intersystem Crossings Drive Atmospheric Gas-Phase Dimer Formation

Rashid R. Valiev, Galib Hasan, Vili-Taneli Salo,

Jakub Kubečka, and Theo Kurten

Kinetic and Theoretical Study of the Atmospheric Aqueous-Phase Reactions of OH Radicals with Methoxyphenolic Compounds

Lin He, Thomas Schaefer, Tobias Otto, Ana Kroflič, and Hartmut Herrmann

Theoretical Investigations on the Possibility of Prebiotic HCN Formation via O-Addition Reactions

Sourav Ghoshal, Anup Pramanik, and Pranab Sarkar

Experimental Evidence of Dioxole Unimolecular Decay Pathway for Isoprene-Derived Criegee Intermediates

Michael F. Vansco, Rebecca L. Caravan, Kristen Zuraski, Frank A. F. Winiberg, Kendrew Au, Nisalak Trongsiriwat, Patrick J. Walsh, David L. Osborn, Carl J. Percival,

M. Anwar H. Khan, Dudley E. Shallcross, Craig A. Taatjes, and Marsha I. Lester

Impact of Quantum Chemistry Parameter Choices and Cluster Distribution Model Settings on Modeled Atmospheric Particle Formation Rates

Vitus Besel, Jakub Kubečka, Theo Kurtén, and

Hanna Vehkamäki

Spectroscopy of OSSO and Other Sulfur Compounds Thought to be Present in the Venus Atmosphere

Benjamin N. Frandsen, Sara Farahani, Emil Vogt,

Joseph R. Lane, and Henrik G. Kjaergaard

Solubility and Activity Coefficients of Atmospheric Surfactants in Aqueous Solution Evaluated Using COSMOtherm

Georgia Michailoudi, Noora Hyttinen, Theo Kurtén, and

Nønne L. Prisle

Temperature-Dependent Rate Coefficient for the Reaction of CH3SH with the Simplest Criegee Intermediate

Yu-Lin Li, Yen-Hsiu Lin, Cangtao Yin, Kaito Takahashi,