Organosulfates in atmospheric aerosol: synthesis and quantitative analysis of pm 2.5 from xi'an, northwestern china
The sources, formation mechanism and amount of organosulfates (OS) in atmospheric aerosol are not yet well understood, partly due to the lack of authentic standards for quantification. In this study, we report an improved robust procedure for the synthesis of organosulfates with different functional...
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ftnuigalway:oai:https://researchrepository.universityofgalway.ie:10379/12004 2024-09-30T14:31:28+00:00 Organosulfates in atmospheric aerosol: synthesis and quantitative analysis of pm 2.5 from xi'an, northwestern china Huang, Ru-Jin Cao, Junji Chen, Yang Yang, Lu Shen, Jincan You, Qihua Wang, Kai Lin, Chunshui Xu, Wei Gao, Bo Li, Yongjie Chen, Qi Hoffmann, Thorsten O'Dowd, Colin D. Bilde, Merete Glasius, Marianne 2018-06-18 http://hdl.handle.net/10379/12004 https://doi.org/10.13025/25875 https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3447-2018 unknown Copernicus GmbH Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Huang, Ru-Jin; Cao, Junji; Chen, Yang; Yang, Lu; Shen, Jincan; You, Qihua; Wang, Kai; Lin, Chunshui; Xu, Wei; Gao, Bo; Li, Yongjie; Chen, Qi; Hoffmann, Thorsten; O'Dowd, Colin D. Bilde, Merete; Glasius, Marianne (2018). Organosulfates in atmospheric aerosol: synthesis and quantitative analysis of pm 2.5 from xi'an, northwestern china. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 11 (6), 3447-3456 1867-8548 http://hdl.handle.net/10379/12004 https://doi.org/10.13025/25875 doi:10.5194/amt-11-3447-2018 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Ireland https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/ secondary organic aerosol chemical-composition mass-spectrometry particulate organosulfates aromatic organosulfates dicarboxylic-acids arctic aerosols ambient aerosol haze events isoprene Article 2018 ftnuigalway https://doi.org/10.13025/2587510.5194/amt-11-3447-2018 2024-09-17T14:44:29Z The sources, formation mechanism and amount of organosulfates (OS) in atmospheric aerosol are not yet well understood, partly due to the lack of authentic standards for quantification. In this study, we report an improved robust procedure for the synthesis of organosulfates with different functional groups. Nine authentic organosulfate standards were synthesized and four standards (benzyl sulfate, phenyl sulfate, glycolic acid sulfate, and hydroxyacetone sulfate) were used to quantify their ambient concentrations. The authentic standards and ambient aerosol samples were analyzed using an optimized ultra performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometric method (UPLC-ESI-MS/MS). The recovery ranged from 80.4 to 93.2 %, the limits of detection and limits of quantification obtained were 1.1-16.7 and 3.4-55.6 pg m(-3), respectively. Measurements of ambient aerosol particle samples collected in winter 2013/2014 in urban Xi'an, northwestern China, show that glycolic acid sulfate (77.3 +/- 49.2 ng m(-3)) is the most abundant species of the identified organosulfates followed by hydroxyacetone sulfate (1.3 +/- 0.5 ng m(-3)), phenyl sulfate (0.14 +/- 0.09 ng m(-3)), and benzyl sulfate (0.04 +/- 0.01 ng m(-3)). Except for hydroxyacetone sulfate, which seems to form mainly from biogenic emissions in this region, the organosulfates quantified during winter in Xi'an show an increasing trend with an increase in the mass concentrations of organic carbon indicating their anthropogenic origin. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway: ARAN Arctic |
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The sources, formation mechanism and amount of organosulfates (OS) in atmospheric aerosol are not yet well understood, partly due to the lack of authentic standards for quantification. In this study, we report an improved robust procedure for the synthesis of organosulfates with different functional groups. Nine authentic organosulfate standards were synthesized and four standards (benzyl sulfate, phenyl sulfate, glycolic acid sulfate, and hydroxyacetone sulfate) were used to quantify their ambient concentrations. The authentic standards and ambient aerosol samples were analyzed using an optimized ultra performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometric method (UPLC-ESI-MS/MS). The recovery ranged from 80.4 to 93.2 %, the limits of detection and limits of quantification obtained were 1.1-16.7 and 3.4-55.6 pg m(-3), respectively. Measurements of ambient aerosol particle samples collected in winter 2013/2014 in urban Xi'an, northwestern China, show that glycolic acid sulfate (77.3 +/- 49.2 ng m(-3)) is the most abundant species of the identified organosulfates followed by hydroxyacetone sulfate (1.3 +/- 0.5 ng m(-3)), phenyl sulfate (0.14 +/- 0.09 ng m(-3)), and benzyl sulfate (0.04 +/- 0.01 ng m(-3)). Except for hydroxyacetone sulfate, which seems to form mainly from biogenic emissions in this region, the organosulfates quantified during winter in Xi'an show an increasing trend with an increase in the mass concentrations of organic carbon indicating their anthropogenic origin. |
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Huang, Ru-Jin Cao, Junji Chen, Yang Yang, Lu Shen, Jincan You, Qihua Wang, Kai Lin, Chunshui Xu, Wei Gao, Bo Li, Yongjie Chen, Qi Hoffmann, Thorsten O'Dowd, Colin D. Bilde, Merete Glasius, Marianne |
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Huang, Ru-Jin Cao, Junji Chen, Yang Yang, Lu Shen, Jincan You, Qihua Wang, Kai Lin, Chunshui Xu, Wei Gao, Bo Li, Yongjie Chen, Qi Hoffmann, Thorsten O'Dowd, Colin D. Bilde, Merete Glasius, Marianne |
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Organosulfates in atmospheric aerosol: synthesis and quantitative analysis of pm 2.5 from xi'an, northwestern china |
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Organosulfates in atmospheric aerosol: synthesis and quantitative analysis of pm 2.5 from xi'an, northwestern china |
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Organosulfates in atmospheric aerosol: synthesis and quantitative analysis of pm 2.5 from xi'an, northwestern china |
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Organosulfates in atmospheric aerosol: synthesis and quantitative analysis of pm 2.5 from xi'an, northwestern china |
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Organosulfates in atmospheric aerosol: synthesis and quantitative analysis of pm 2.5 from xi'an, northwestern china |
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organosulfates in atmospheric aerosol: synthesis and quantitative analysis of pm 2.5 from xi'an, northwestern china |
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Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Huang, Ru-Jin; Cao, Junji; Chen, Yang; Yang, Lu; Shen, Jincan; You, Qihua; Wang, Kai; Lin, Chunshui; Xu, Wei; Gao, Bo; Li, Yongjie; Chen, Qi; Hoffmann, Thorsten; O'Dowd, Colin D. Bilde, Merete; Glasius, Marianne (2018). Organosulfates in atmospheric aerosol: synthesis and quantitative analysis of pm 2.5 from xi'an, northwestern china. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 11 (6), 3447-3456 1867-8548 http://hdl.handle.net/10379/12004 https://doi.org/10.13025/25875 doi:10.5194/amt-11-3447-2018 |
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