J 2007

Photochemically induced nitration and hydroxylation of organic aromatic compounds in the presence of nitrate or nitrite in ice.

MATYKIEWICZOVÁ, Nina, Romana KURKOVÁ, Jana KLÁNOVÁ and Petr KLÁN

Basic information

Original name

Photochemically induced nitration and hydroxylation of organic aromatic compounds in the presence of nitrate or nitrite in ice.

Name in Czech

Fotochemicky indukovaná nitrace a hydroxylace aromatických organických sloučenin v přítomnosti dusičnanů a dusitanů v ledu.

Authors

MATYKIEWICZOVÁ, Nina (203 Czech Republic), Romana KURKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic), Jana KLÁNOVÁ (203 Czech Republic) and Petr KLÁN (203 Czech Republic, guarantor)

Edition

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Elsevier Science, 2007, 1010-6030

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10401 Organic chemistry

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 1.911

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/07:00020855

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

UT WoS

000244833600003

Keywords in English

Photochemistry; Ice; Snow; Nitrate; Nitrite; Aromatic compounds; Phenol; Nitration; Oxidation.

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 23/6/2009 15:13, prof. RNDr. Petr Klán, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

The photochemistry of three model aromatic compounds (phenol, anisole, and 4 methoxyphenol; c = 0.001 mol/L) in frozen aqueous solutions containing sodium nitrite or nitrate (from c = 0.01 to 0.1 mol/L) at minus 15 C was investigated. Nitration, hydroxylation, and coupling reactions were found to be the principal chemical processes, presumably taking place in the quasi-liquid layer covering the ice crystal surfaces where both hydrophobic organic and water soluble inorganic compounds were accumulated prior to irradiation. While primary photoproducts were identified at low reaction conversions, exhaustive (quartz or Pyrex filtered) UV irradiation produced a very complex mixture of secondary photoproducts. The photoreactions proceeded predominantly by the nitrite or nitrate photoexcitation but chemistry of the excited organic chromophores was also observed. Phenol and 4 methoxyphenol photolysis afforded the corresponding nitro and hydroxycompounds, as well as biphenyl and diphenylether derivatives. The presence of nitrite or nitrate caused that qualitatively the same photoproducts were produced; therefore both were the source of the NOx or HO radicals. In contrast, irradiation of anisole under the same reaction conditions afforded phenol nearly exclusively. It is demonstrated that the OH group of phenols played an important role in the course of hydroxylation and nitration reactions. The results from this study may support assumptions according to which photolysis of nitrate in the snowpack is responsible for oxidation of organic precursors to their hydroxy or carbonyl derivatives.

In Czech

The photochemistry of three model aromatic compounds (phenol, anisole, and 4 methoxyphenol; c = 0.001 mol/L) in frozen aqueous solutions containing sodium nitrite or nitrate (from c = 0.01 to 0.1 mol/L) at minus 15 C was investigated. Nitration, hydroxylation, and coupling reactions were found to be the principal chemical processes, presumably taking place in the quasi-liquid layer covering the ice crystal surfaces where both hydrophobic organic and water soluble inorganic compounds were accumulated prior to irradiation. While primary photoproducts were identified at low reaction conversions, exhaustive (quartz or Pyrex filtered) UV irradiation produced a very complex mixture of secondary photoproducts. The photoreactions proceeded predominantly by the nitrite or nitrate photoexcitation but chemistry of the excited organic chromophores was also observed. Phenol and 4 methoxyphenol photolysis afforded the corresponding nitro and hydroxycompounds, as well as biphenyl and diphenylether derivatives. The presence of nitrite or nitrate caused that qualitatively the same photoproducts were produced; therefore both were the source of the NOx or HO radicals. In contrast, irradiation of anisole under the same reaction conditions afforded phenol nearly exclusively. It is demonstrated that the OH group of phenols played an important role in the course of hydroxylation and nitration reactions. The results from this study may support assumptions according to which photolysis of nitrate in the snowpack is responsible for oxidation of organic precursors to their hydroxy or carbonyl derivatives.

Links

GA205/05/0819, research and development project
Name: Environmentální důsledky fotochemických transformací v ledu a sněhu
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Enviromental consequences of photochemical processes in ice and snow
MSM0021622412, plan (intention)
Name: Interakce mezi chemickými látkami, prostředím a biologickými systémy a jejich důsledky na globální, regionální a lokální úrovni (INCHEMBIOL) (Acronym: INCHEMBIOL)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Interactions among the chemicals, environment and biological systems and their consequences on the global, regional and local scales (INCHEMBIOL)