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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<journal-title>EGUsphere</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">EGUsphere</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">EGUsphere</abbrev-journal-title>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2025-2743</article-id>
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<article-title>Rapid Aqueous-Phase Oxidation of An &lt;em&gt;&amp;alpha;&lt;/em&gt;-Pinene-Derived Organosulfate by Hydroxyl Radicals: A Potential Source of Some Unclassified Oxygenated and Small Organosulfates in the Atmosphere</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lai</surname>
<given-names>Donger</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Bai</surname>
<given-names>Yanxin</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Zijing</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3016-6082</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>So</surname>
<given-names>Pui-Kin</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Li</surname>
<given-names>Yong Jie</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">
<sup>5</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tse</surname>
<given-names>Ying-Lung Steve</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Yeung</surname>
<given-names>Ying-Yeung</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Schaefer</surname>
<given-names>Thomas</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff7">
<sup>7</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Herrmann</surname>
<given-names>Hartmut</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7044-2101</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff7">
<sup>7</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff8">
<sup>8</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Yu</surname>
<given-names>Jian Zhen</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6165-6500</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff9">
<sup>9</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Yuchen</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Chan</surname>
<given-names>Man Nin</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff10">
<sup>10</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University  of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Division of Environment and Sustainability, The Hong Kong University of Science and  Technology, Hong Kong, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>The University Research Facility in Life Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Ocean Science and  Technology, and Centre for Regional Oceans, Faculty of Science and Technology, University  of Macau, Taipa, Macau SAR, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff6">
<label>6</label>
<addr-line>Department of Chemistry and The State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, The Chinese  University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff7">
<label>7</label>
<addr-line>Atmospheric Chemistry Department (ACD), Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research  (TROPOS), Leipzig, Germany</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff8">
<label>8</label>
<addr-line>School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff9">
<label>9</label>
<addr-line>Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong  Kong, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff10">
<label>10</label>
<addr-line>The Institute of Environment, Energy, and Sustainability, The Chinese University of Hong  Kong, Hong Kong, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>19</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>2025</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>28</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2025 Donger Lai et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2025</copyright-year>
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<abstract>
<p>Organosulfates (OSs) are ubiquitously present in atmospheric aerosols and cloud droplets, and affect aerosol-cloud-climate interactions via their distinct physicochemical properties. Although various formation pathways and transformation mechanisms have been proposed, the origins of many atmospheric OSs remain unclear or unexplained. In this study, we investigated the aqueous-phase oxidation of an &lt;em&gt;&amp;alpha;&lt;/em&gt;-pinene-derived organosulfate (C&lt;sub&gt;10&lt;/sub&gt;H&lt;sub&gt;17&lt;/sub&gt;O&lt;sub&gt;5&lt;/sub&gt;SNa, &lt;em&gt;&amp;alpha;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;pOS-249&lt;/span&gt;) by &lt;sup&gt;&amp;bull;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span&gt;OH&lt;/span&gt; radicals as a potential source of some uncharacterized atmospheric OSs by quantifying the kinetics and characterizing the reaction products. An aqueous-phase photoreactor was used to conduct the aqueous-phase &lt;sup&gt;&amp;bull;&lt;/sup&gt;OH oxidation of&lt;em&gt; &amp;alpha;&lt;/em&gt;pOS-249, revealing a rate constant of (2.2 &amp;plusmn; 0.2) &amp;times; 10&lt;sup&gt;9&lt;/sup&gt; L mol&lt;sup&gt;&amp;ndash;1&lt;/sup&gt; s&lt;sup&gt;&amp;ndash;1&lt;/sup&gt; and atmospheric lifetimes ranged from minutes to about 2 days under atmospherically relevant cloud conditions. The product analysis revealed that a variety of more oxygenated C&lt;sub&gt;10&lt;/sub&gt; OS products, smaller OS (&amp;lt;C&lt;sub&gt;10&lt;/sub&gt;) products, and inorganic sulfates (e.g., bisulfate and sulfate) can be produced via functionalization and fragmentation processes upon oxidation. Most of the OS products have been detected in the atmosphere, with some of them whose sources and formation mechanisms are unknown thus far. Our study provides a new perspective that the chemical transformation of larger OSs via aqueous-phase oxidation can proceed efficiently to yield a variety of new OSs, serving as a source for atmospheric OSs, particularly smaller OSs. These findings would be useful in field data interpretation and model simulations regarding the abundance, formation, transformation, and atmospheric fates of OSs.</p>
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<funding-source>Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee</funding-source>
<award-id>Ref No. 14300921: Project ID 2130791</award-id>
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<funding-source>National Natural Science Foundation of China</funding-source>
<award-id>Grants 22306059</award-id>
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<funding-source>Science and Technology Program of Hunan Province</funding-source>
<award-id>Grants 2024RC3106</award-id>
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<funding-source>Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities</funding-source>
<award-id>Grant 531118010830</award-id>
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<funding-source>Fundo para o Desenvolvimento das Ciências e da Tecnologia</funding-source>
<award-id>File No. FDCT 0031/2023/AFJ and No. FDCT 0107/2023/RIA2</award-id>
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<funding-source>Universidade de Macau</funding-source>
<award-id>File No. MYRG-GRG2024-00032-FST-UMDF</award-id>
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