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Published in final edited form as: Atmos Chem Phys. 2018 Dec 20;18(24):18101–18121. doi: 10.5194/acp-18-18101-2018

Table 2.

Products detected in SOA samples from chamber experiments using GC-MS and LC-MS.

Chemical formula m/z BSTFA derivative (methane-CI) MW MWBSTFA (g mol−1) Tentative structure* and chemical name References
GC-MS
C5H10O2 247, 231, 157, 147, 73 102 graphic file with name nihms-1045602-t0016.jpg Wang et al. (2005)
246 3-methyl-3-butene-1,2-diol (C5-diol-1) Surratt et al. (2006)

C5H10O2 263, 247, 173, 83, 73, 118 graphic file with name nihms-1045602-t0017.jpg Paulot et al. (2009)
262 2-methyl-2,3-epoxy-but-1,4-diol (IEPOX-1) Surratt et al. (2010)
Zhang et al. (2012)

C5H18O3 263, 247, 173, 83, 73 118 graphic file with name nihms-1045602-t0018.jpg
262 2-methyl-3,4-epoxy-but-1,2-diol (IEPOX-2)

C4H8O4 337, 321, 293, 219, 203 120 graphic file with name nihms-1045602-t0019.jpg Claeys et al. (2004a)
336 2-methylglyceric acid (2-MG) Surratt et al. (2006)
Edney et al. (2005)
Szmigielski et al. (2007)

C5H12O4 409, 319, 293, 219, 203 136 graphic file with name nihms-1045602-t0020.jpg Claeys et al. (2004a)
424 2-methylthreitol (2MT) Wang et al. (2004)
Edney et al. (2005)
Surratt et al. (2006)
Nozière et al. (2011)

C5H12O4 409, 319, 293, 219, 203 136 graphic file with name nihms-1045602-t0021.jpg
424 2-methylerythritol (2MT)

C8H14O7 495, 321, 219, 203, 73 222 graphic file with name nihms-1045602-t0022.jpg Surratt et al. (2006)
510 2-methylglyceric acid dimer (2-MG dimer) Szmigielski et al. (2007)

LC-MS
C5H10O6S 197, 167, 97, 81 198 graphic file with name nihms-1045602-t0023.jpg Tao et al. (2014)
IEPOX-derived organosulfate

C4H8O7S 199, 119, 97, 73 200 graphic file with name nihms-1045602-t0024.jpg Surratt et al. (2007a)
2-methylglyceric acid organosulfate (2-MG OS) Gomez-Gonzalez et al. (2008)
Shalamzari et al. (2013)
Riva et al. (2016)

C5H8O7S 211, 193, 113, 97 212 graphic file with name nihms-1045602-t0025.jpg Surratt et al. (2008)
2(3H)-furanone, dihydro-3,4-dihydroxy-3-methyl organosulfate Hettiyadura et al. (2015)
Spolnik et al. (2018)

C5H10O7S 213, 183, 153, 97 214 graphic file with name nihms-1045602-t0026.jpg Hettiyadura et al. (2015)
2,3,4-furantriol, tetrahydro-3-methyl-organosulfate Spolnik et al. (2018)

C5H12O7S 215, 97 216 graphic file with name nihms-1045602-t0027.jpg Surratt et al. (2007a)
2-methyltetrol organosulfate (2MT OS) Gomez-Gonzalez et al. (2008)
Surratt et al. (2010)

C5H10O8S 229, 149, 97, 75 230 graphic file with name nihms-1045602-t0028.jpg This study
2-methylthreonic acid organosulfate

C5H9O9S 243, 163, 145, 101 244 graphic file with name nihms-1045602-t0029.jpg This study
2-methyltartaric acid organosulfate

C5H11NO8S 244, 226, 197, 183, 153, 97 245 graphic file with name nihms-1045602-t0030.jpg This study
2-methyltetrol nitrosoxy-organosulfate

C5H11NO9S 260, 197, 183, 153, 97 261 graphic file with name nihms-1045602-t0031.jpg Surratt et al. (2007a)
2-methyltetrol nitroxy-organosulfate Surratt et al. (2008)

C5H9NO10S 274, 211, 193, 153, 97 275 graphic file with name nihms-1045602-t0032.jpg This study
2-methylthreonic acid nitroxy-organosulfate
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For more stereochemically complex molecules a representative isomer is shown.