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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 21.
Published in final edited form as: Atmos Chem Phys. 2018 Jul 23;18(14):10433–10457.

Table 3.

Oxidation products from isoprene (ISOPOX) and monoterpenes (MTOXs) in central Amazonia in gas and/or particle phases. Only particle-phase measurement is presented in this study. Products marked not applicable (n/a) are not detected in the UHRMS analysis method.

No. Tracer name Source category Analysis methods Chemical formula Molecular
weight (g mol−1)
UHRMS
measured m/z m/z [M-1]−
UHRMS
average % of
total signal
intensity
1 2-MT 1 or 2-methylerythritol ISOPOX SV-TAG; filter GC × GC C5H12O4 136.15 n/a n/a
2 2-MT 2 or 2-methylthreitol ISOPOX SV-TAG; filter GC × GC C5H12O4 136.15 n/a n/a
3 C5-alktriol 1 or 3-methyl-2,3,4-trihydroxy-1-butene ISOPOX SV-TAG; filter GC × GC C5H10O3 118.13 n/a n/a
4 C5-alktriol 2 or cis-2-methyl-
1,3,4-trihydroxy-1-butene
ISOPOX SV-TAG; filter GC × GC C5H10O3 118.13 n/a n/a
5 2-MGA or 2-methylglyceric acid ISOPOX SV-TAG; filter GC × GC C4H8O4 120.10 n/a n/a
6 DTAA or diaterpenylic acid acetate MTOX Filter UHPLC-MS; filter ESI-UHRMS C10H16O6 232.23 231.08728 0.57
7 MBTCA or 3-methyl-1,2,3-butanetricarboxylic acid MTOX Filter GC × GC HR-ToF- C8H12O6 204.18 203.05606 0.87
8 pinic acid MTOX filter ESI-UHRMS
Filter GC × GC HR-ToF-
C9H14O4 186.21 185.08186 0.96
9 pinonic acid MTOX filter ESI-UHRMS
Filter UHPLC-MS; filter ESI-UHRMS
C10H16O3 184.23 183.10259 2.73
10 terpenylic acid MTOX Filter UHPLC-MS; filter C8H12O4 172.18 171.06618 0.78
11 cis-norpinic acid MTOX ESI-UHRMS
Filter GC × GC HR-ToF-
C9H16O3 172.22 171.10252 2.97