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. 2014 Sep 17;48(20):11944–11953. doi: 10.1021/es502204x

Table 4. Observed Organic Nitrate Yields and Gas/Aerosol Partitioning, and Nitrogen Balancea.

BVOC molar organic nitrate yield (Δ[ANs + PNs]/ Δ[VOC]) fraction of organonitrates in aerosol phase (Δ[ANs + PNs]aero/Δ[ANs + PNs] organonitrate fraction of total aerosol mass (MANsaero/Mo) N-balance: NO2 release (Δ[NO2]/ −Δ[N2O5]) N-balance: organonitrate formation (Δ[ANs + PNs]/–Δ[N2O5])
β-pinene 0.22 0.76 0.56 1.04 1.15 0.08 0.23
Δ-3-carene 0.77 0.50 0.56 1.14 0.22
limonene 0.54 0.83 0.82 0.76 0.96 0.31 0.41
β-caryophyllene n/a 1 0.80 n/ab n/ab
α-pinene 0.10 0 0 1.54 1.75 0.03 0.10
a

BVOC-based molar organic nitrate yield, aerosol fraction of organonitrates, and organonitrate fraction of total aerosol mass are all evaluated at 2 h after chamber experiment initiation (data are all from the high-concentration experiments, when the TD-LIF instrument was available); N2O5-based NO2 and ANs + PNs production are evaluated at 30 min after chamber experiment initiation. For β-pinene, limonene, and α-pinene, NO3 decays slowly enough that this N balance analysis can be reliably repeated at 2 h. These are the numbers reported in italics.

b

Several parameters are not available for β-caryophyllene, because the N2O5 decay was very rapid and not well-characterized.