Optical properties of the products of α-dicarbonyl and amine reactions in simulated cloud droplets.

@article{Zarzana2012OpticalPO,
  title={Optical properties of the products of $\alpha$-dicarbonyl and amine reactions in simulated cloud droplets.},
  author={Kyle J. Zarzana and David O. De Haan and Miriam Arak Freedman and Christa A. Hasenkopf and Margaret A. Tolbert},
  journal={Environmental science \& technology},
  year={2012},
  volume={46 9},
  pages={
          4845-51
        }
}
Secondary organic aerosol makes up a significant fraction of the total aerosol mass, and a growing body of evidence indicates that reactions in the atmospheric aqueous phase are important contributors to aerosol formation and can help explain observations that cannot be accounted for using traditional gas-phase chemistry. In particular, aqueous phase reactions between small organic molecules have been proposed as a source of light absorbing compounds that have been observed in numerous… 
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