• Title/Summary/Keyword: Photochemical reactions

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A Study on the Photochemical Reaction Model of Air Pollutants (大氣汚染物質의 光化學 反應 모델에 關한 硏究)

  • 이화운;박종길
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.74-83
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    • 1992
  • Photochemical reactions are important for the diurnal variation of the concentrations of air pollutants in the urban atmosphere. A photochemical reaction model was developed, which includes in terms of the effective chemical reaction. Various experimental results were introduced to the construction of model. To verify the applicability of the model, the simulated results were compared with those observed. By comparing the simulated results with those observed, it was shown that those two are in good agreement qualitatively. As a result, the photochemical reaction model which has been developed in this study is found to be useful for the prediction of concentrations of air pollutants in the atmosphere.

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Wall Contamination of Teflon Bags Used as a Photochemical Reaction Chamber of Ambient Air (실제 대기의 광화학 반응 챔버로 사용되는 테플론 백의 오염도 평가)

  • Lee, Seung-Bok;Bae, Gwi-Nam;Lee, Young-Mee;Moon, Kil-Choo
    • Particle and aerosol research
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.149-161
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    • 2013
  • Experiments on photochemical reactions of purified air alone in an indoor smog chamber were carried out after flushing Teflon bags with purified air for many hours in order to check the level of contamination on the chamber wall. Ozone concentrations were linearly increased from <4 ppb up to about 8 ppb with irradiation time for four hours. Outgassing of NOx from the chamber wall was found to be less than 1 ppb. New ultrafine particles were formed and grown up to about 70 nm during the photochemical reactions, and then total number and mass concentrations of particles were increased from <10 particles/$cm^3$ up to about 4,000 particles/$cm^3$ and $1.3{\mu}g/m^3$, respectively. The wall conditions of these Teflon bags flushed with purified air might not severly affect the chamber experimental results for photochemical reactions of polluted urban ambient air. The difference of gaseous species between two chambers was 2.4 ppb of ozone at most, indicating that the wall cleaning performance of two chambers was nearly similar.

The Measurement and Analysis for Ultraviolet Radiation (자외선복사의 측정과 분석)

  • Han, Jong-Sung;Kim, Hong-Bum;Kim, Hoon
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.7-12
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    • 2005
  • When a light is projected upon a material, part of its radiant energy is absorbed and the rest is reflected or transmitted according to the nature of the material. The molecules of the substance absorbing a light obtains the radiant energy to make thermal reactions or photochemical reactions. Specially, photochemical reactions by ultraviolet(UV) radiation brings about photochemical degradation such as color change. Because the photochemical damage brings about a devaluation of material and once damaged, it is irretrievable, it is necessary to minimize the damage and conserve the native quality of a material by a protective lighting system. This paper presents the measurement and photochemical damage for UV radiation from light sources. We measured the optical radiations from artificial light sources and daylight, and we analyzed a functional relation between irradiance and UV radiation form the results.

Photo-induced inter-protein interaction changes in the time domain; a blue light sensor protein PixD

  • Terazima, Masahide
    • Rapid Communication in Photoscience
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2015
  • For understanding molecular mechanisms of photochemical reactions, in particular reactions of proteins with biological functions, it is important to elucidate both the initial reactions from the photoexcited states and the series of subsequent chemical reactions, e.g., conformation, intermolecular interactions (hydrogen bonding, hydrophobic interactions), and inter-protein interactions (oligomer formation, dissociation reactions). Although time-resolved detection of such dynamics is essential, these dynamics have been very difficult to track by traditional spectroscopic techniques. Here, relatively new approaches for probing the dynamics of protein photochemical reactions using time-resolved transient grating (TG) are reviewed. By using this method, a variety of spectrally silent dynamics can be detected and such data provide a valuable description about the reaction scheme. Herein, a blue light sensor protein TePixD is the exemplar. The initial photochemistry for TePixD occurs around the chromophore and is detected readily by light absorption, but subsequent reactions are spectrally silent. The TG experiments revealed conformational changes and changes in inter-protein interactions, which are essential for TePixD function. The TG experiments also showed the importance of fluctuations of the intermediates as the driving force of the reaction. This technique is complementary to optical absorption detection methods. The TG signal contains a variety of unique information, which is difficult to obtain by other methods. The advantages and methods for signal analyses are described in detail in this review.

THE PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTION OF 1-HALO-2-(PHENYLAKYL)BENZENES

  • Park, Yong-Tae;Kim, Young-Hee;Lee, Ick-Heung
    • Journal of Photoscience
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.39-45
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    • 1994
  • Haloarene in which the phenyl group and halophenyl group are connected by alkyl groups were synthesized to study the photochemical behavior. The photochemical reactions of 1-halo-2-(phenylalkyl)enzenes (1 and 2) were studied in several aerated or unaerated solvents. In the case of 2-benzyl-1-halobenzene photoreduced product (biphenyl) is major in acetonitrile or benzene. In cyclohexane or acetonitrile with triethylamine, photoreduced product is obtained exclusively, while in acetonitrile with toluene, xylene, or sodium hydroxide photocyclized product (fluorene) is mainly obtained. In the case of 1-halo-2-phenethylbenzenes (5 and 6), photocyclized product (9,10-dihydrophenanthrene and phenanthrene) are major in acetonitrile or benzene. While the haloarenes 1 or 2 connecting the two arene rings by methylene is photoreduced, the other haloarene 5 or 6 connecting by ethylene is photocyclized. In cyclohexane or acetonitrile with a small amount of triethylamine, photoreduced reactions of 5 or 6 mainly occur. In acetonitrile with sodium hydroxide, toluene, or xylene, photocyclization of 5, 6 occur exclusively. The triplet state is mainly involved in the photocyclization of 5 or 6, because of the inhibition of oxygen.

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The investigation of photochemical reaction of phototoxic antimalarial compounds

  • Yoon, Ung-Chan;Epling, Gary-A.
    • Archives of Pharmacal Research
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.87-88
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    • 1980
  • The goal of this research is to provide information that will lead to the development of new non-phototoxic antimalarial compounds. The goal was approached by first learning the chemical mechanism of phototoxicity of six representative compounds 1a-f: a[(diethyl-, -dihexyl-, and -dioctyl- aminomethyl)]-2-(3', 4' -dichlorophenyl)-6-methoxy-4-quinolinemethanol (1a, 1b, and 1c) and .alpha. [(diethyl-, -dibutyl-, and -dihexyl-aminomethyl)]-2-(-4'-methoxyphenyl-6-methoxy-7-chloro-4-quinolinemethan ol (1d, 1e, and 1f). The photochemical reaction of these compounds was investigated in 2-propanol. Similar photochemical fragmentation reactions accurred in all compounds.

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Estimate of Surface Ozone Concentration on Sunny Summer Days in Seoul Area by the Photochemical-Trajectory Model (광화학-궤적 모델에 의한 여름철 맑은 날 서울지방의 지상 오존 농도 추정)

  • 이시우;이광목
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.497-506
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    • 2002
  • A Photochemical-Trajectory model was used to understand the production of ozone in the atmospheric boundary layer. This model was composed of the trajectory and the photochemical models. To calculate trajectories of air parcels, winds were obtained from the three-dimensional nonhydrostatic mesoscale model (PSU/NCAR MM5V2), and the results were interpolated into constant height surfaces. Numerical integration in the trajectory model was performed by the Runge-Kutta method. The photochemical model consisted of chemical reactions and photodissociation processes. Chemical equations were integrated by the semi-implicit Bulirsch-Stoer method. We performed our experiments from 21 July to 23 July 1994 during the summer time for Seoul area. During the time of maximum ozone concentration in Seoul, four trajectories of air parcels which traveled from Inchon to Seoul were selected. Ozone concentrations estimated by two models are compared with observed one in Seoul area and the photochemical-trajectory model is better fitted than pure photochemical model. During the selected period, high ozone concentrations in Seoul area were more influenced by transferred pollutants from Inchon than emitted pollutants in Seoul.