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Over the last six years research has been carried out at the Statewide Air Pollution Research Center concerning the gas-phase atmospheric reactions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (РАН) and their nitro-derivatives, as well as on the ambient concentrations of the РАН and nitroarenes. This research has involved kinetic and product studies of their atmospherically important gas-phase reactions,1–17 analytical methods development and field studies to determine their ambient concentrations,18–29 and studies of the synthesis, mutagenic activities and metabolism of nitroarenes.30–34 We present here a brief overview of this research as it relates to the atmospheric formation of nitroarenes and their occurrence in ambient air.
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Zielinska, B., Arey, J., Atkinson, R. (1990). The Atmospheric Formation of Nitroarenes and Their Occurrence in Ambient Air. In: Howard, P.C., Hecht, S.S., Beland, F.A. (eds) Nitroarenes. Environmental Science Research, vol 40. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3800-4_6
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