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The available experimental data concerning the yields of alkyl nitrates in the reactions of alkyl peroxy radicals with NO have been used to derive a revised expression for the estimation of alkyl nitrate yields in the atmospheric photooxidation of alkanes as a function of temperature and pressure. This revised expression gives more reasonable predictions of alkyl nitrate yields under high altitude tropospheric conditions than that which has been previously published.
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Carter, W.P.L., Atkinson, R. Alkyl nitrate formation from the atmospheric photoxidation of alkanes; a revised estimation method. J Atmos Chem 8, 165–173 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00053721
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