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DOI	10.5194/acp-22-6919-2022
	Molecular characteristics, sources, and formation pathways of organosulfur compounds in ambient aerosol in Guangzhou, South China
	Jiang, Hongxing; Li, Jun; Tang, Jiao; Cui, Min; Zhao, Shizhen; Mo, Yangzhi; Tian, Chongguo; Zhang, Xiangyun; Jiang, Bin; Liao, Yuhong; Chen, Yingjun; Zhang, Gan
发表日期	2022
ISSN	1680-7316
EISSN	1680-7324
起始页码	6919
结束页码	6935
卷号	22 期号:10 页码:17
英文摘要	Organosulfur compounds (OrgSs), especially organosulfates, have been widely reported to be present in large quantities in particulate organic matter found in various atmospheric environments. Despite hundreds of organosulfates and their formation mechanisms being previously identified, a large fraction of OrgSs remain unexplained at the molecular level, and a better understanding of their formation pathways and critical environmental parameters is required to explain the variations in their concentrations. In this study, the abundance and molecular composition of OrgSs in fine particulate samples collected in Guangzhou were reported. The results revealed that the ratio of the annual average mass of organic sulfur to total particulate sulfur was 33 +/- 12 %, and organic sulfur had positive correlations with SO2 (r = 0.37, p < 0.05) and oxidant (NOx + O-3, r = 0.40, p < 0.01). A Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS) analysis revealed that more than 80 % of the sulfur-containing formulas detected in the samples had the elemental composition of o/(4s + 3n) >= 1, indicating that they were largely in the form of oxidized organosulfates or nitrooxy organosulfates. Many OrgSs that were previously tentatively identified as having biogenic or anthropogenic origins were also present in freshly emitted aerosols derived from combustion sources. The results indicated that the formation of OrgSs through an epoxide intermediate pathway could account for up to 46 % of OrgSs from an upper bound estimation, and the oxidant levels could explain 20 % of the variation in the mass of organic sulfur. The analysis of our large dataset of FT-ICR MS results suggested that relative humidity, oxidation of biogenic volatile organic compounds via ozonolysis, and NOx-related nitrooxy organosulfate formation were the major reasons for the molecular variation of OrgSs, possibly highlighting the importance of the acid-catalyzed ring-opening of epoxides, oxidation processes, and heterogeneous reactions involving either the uptake of SO2 or the heterogeneous oxidation of particulate organosulfates into additional unrecognized OrgSs.
学科领域	Environmental Sciences; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000802267500001
来源期刊	ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/273203
作者单位	Chinese Academy of Sciences; Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, CAS; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, CAS; Fudan University; Yangzhou University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, CAS; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jiang, Hongxing,Li, Jun,Tang, Jiao,et al. Molecular characteristics, sources, and formation pathways of organosulfur compounds in ambient aerosol in Guangzhou, South China[J],2022,22(10):17.
APA	Jiang, Hongxing.,Li, Jun.,Tang, Jiao.,Cui, Min.,Zhao, Shizhen.,...&Zhang, Gan.(2022).Molecular characteristics, sources, and formation pathways of organosulfur compounds in ambient aerosol in Guangzhou, South China.ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS,22(10),17.
MLA	Jiang, Hongxing,et al."Molecular characteristics, sources, and formation pathways of organosulfur compounds in ambient aerosol in Guangzhou, South China".ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 22.10(2022):17.