Saturation Vapor Pressures and Transition Enthalpies of Low-Volatility Organic Molecules of Atmospheric Relevance: From Dicarboxylic Acids to Complex Mixtures
Review article, 2015

There are a number of techniques that can be used that differ in terms of whether they fundamentally probe the equilibrium and the temperature range over which they can be applied. The series of homologous, straight-chain dicarboxylic acids have received much attention over the past decade given their atmospheric relevance, commercial availability, and low saturation vapor pressures, thus making them ideal test compounds. Uncertainties in the solid-state saturation vapor pressures obtained from individual methodologies are typically on the order of 50-100%, but the differences between saturation vapor pressures obtained with different methods are approximately 1-4 orders of magnitude, with the spread tending to increase as the saturation vapor pressure decreases. Some of the dicarboxylic acids can exist with multiple solid-state structures that have distinct saturation vapor pressures. Furthermore, the samples on which measurements are performed may actually exist as amorphous subcooled liquids rather than solid crystalline compounds, again with consequences for the measured saturation vapor pressures, since the subcooled liquid phase will have a higher saturation vapor pressure than the crystalline solid phase. Compounds with equilibrium vapor pressures in this range will exhibit the greatest sensitivities in terms of their gas to particle partitioning to uncertainties in their saturation vapor pressures, with consequent impacts on the ability of explicit and semiexplicit chemical models to simulate secondary organic aerosol formation.

Author

M. Bilde

Aarhus University

K. Barsanti

Portland State University

M. Booth

University of Manchester

C. D. Cappa

University of California

N. M. Donahue

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

E. U. Emanuelsson

Aarhus University

G. McFiggans

University of Manchester

U. K. Krieger

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)

C. Marcolli

Marcolli Chemistry and Physics Consulting GmbH

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)

D. Tropping

University of Manchester

P. Ziemann

University of Colorado at Boulder

M. Barley

University of Manchester

S. Clegg

University of California

Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences

B. Dennis-Smither

University of Bristol

Mattias Hallquist

University of Gothenburg

Åsa M. Hallquist

IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute

A. Khlystov

Desert Research Institute Reno, Division of Atmospheric Sciences

M. Kulmala

University of Helsinki

D. Mogensen

University of Helsinki

C. J. Percival

University of Manchester

F. Pope

University of Birmingham

J. P. Reid

University of Bristol

Mavr da Silva

University of Porto

T. Rosenoern

University of Copenhagen

Kent Salo

Chalmers, Shipping and Marine Technology, Maritime Environmental Sciences

V. P. Soonsin

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)

Chulalongkorn University

T. Yli-Juuti

University of Eastern Finland

University of Helsinki

N. L. Prisle

University of Helsinki

J. Pagels

Lund University

J. Rarey

DDBST GmbH

The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

University of KwaZulu-Natal

A. A. Zardini

Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission

I. Riipinen

Stockholm University

Chemical Reviews

0009-2665 (ISSN) 1520-6890 (eISSN)

Vol. 115 10 4115-4156

Subject Categories

Chemical Sciences

DOI

10.1021/cr5005502

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