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We have performed laboratory measurements of rate constants of a few first steps of the tropospheric oxidation mechanism of some monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; the following reactions have been studied: OH radical with benzene or toluene (+M); benzyl radicals (from OH abstraction pathway) with O2, NO and NO2; on the other band, the branching ratios (abstraction/addition + abstraction) have been measured by a direct spectroscopic technique. All these measurements have been achieved thanks to the Discharge Flow (DF) technique with detection of OH by Resonance Fluorescence (RF) and other radicals by Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF).
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Devolder, P. et al. (1997). Tropospheric Degradation of Aromatics: Laboratory Kinetic Studies of some First Steps of the OH Initiated Oxidation. In: Le Bras, G. (eds) Chemical Processes in Atmospheric Oxidation. Transport and Chemical Transformation of Pollutants in the Troposphere, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59216-4_6
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