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Science 10 August 1979:
Vol. 205. no. 4406, pp. 582 - 583
DOI: 10.1126/science.205.4406.582
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Photooxidation of Anthracene on Atmospheric Particulate Matter

MARYE ANNE FOX 1 and SUSAN OLIVE 1

1 Department of Chemistry, University of Texas, Austin 78712

Anthracene that has been dispersed into atmospheric particulate matter is photooxidized to an array of products reminiscent of oxidation by singlet oxygen in the solution phase. Photooxidation is a more important degradative pathway under ambient conditions than ozonation. Significant disappearance of anthracene also occurs by pathways not involving oxygenation.

Submitted on February 5, 1979
Revised on April 2, 1979

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