Organosulfates in atmospheric aerosol: Synthesis and quantitative analysis of PM2.5 from Xi'an, northwestern China

Ru Jin Huang; Junji Cao; Yang Chen; Lu Yang; Jincan Shen; Qihua You; Kai Wang; Chunshui Lin; Wei Xu; Bo Gao; Yongjie Li; Qi Chen; Thorsten Hoffmann; Colin D. O'Dowd; Merete Bilde; Marianne Glasius

doi:10.5194/amt-11-3447-2018

Organosulfates in atmospheric aerosol: Synthesis and quantitative analysis of PM2.5 from Xi'an, northwestern China

Ru Jin Huang^*, Junji Cao, Yang Chen, Lu Yang, Jincan Shen, Qihua You, Kai Wang, Chunshui Lin, Wei Xu, Bo Gao, Yongjie Li, Qi Chen, Thorsten Hoffmann, Colin D. O'Dowd, Merete Bilde, Marianne Glasius

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The sources, formation mechanism and amount of organosulfates (OS) in atmospheric aerosol are not yet well understood, partly due to the lack of authentic standards for quantification. In this study, we report an improved robust procedure for the synthesis of organosulfates with different functional groups. Nine authentic organosulfate standards were synthesized and four standards (benzyl sulfate, phenyl sulfate, glycolic acid sulfate, and hydroxyacetone sulfate) were used to quantify their ambient concentrations. The authentic standards and ambient aerosol samples were analyzed using an optimized ultra performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometric method (UPLC-ESI-MS/MS). The recovery ranged from 80.4 to 93.2%, the limits of detection and limits of quantification obtained were 1.1-16.7 and 3.4-55.6pgmĝ'3, respectively. Measurements of ambient aerosol particle samples collected in winter 2013/2014 in urban Xi'an, northwestern China, show that glycolic acid sulfate (77.3±49.2ngmg-3) is the most abundant species of the identified organosulfates followed by hydroxyacetone sulfate (1.3±0.5ngmg-3), phenyl sulfate (0.14±0.09ngmg-3), and benzyl sulfate (0.04±0.01ngmg-3). Except for hydroxyacetone sulfate, which seems to form mainly from biogenic emissions in this region, the organosulfates quantified during winter in Xi'an show an increasing trend with an increase in the mass concentrations of organic carbon indicating their anthropogenic origin.

Original language	English
Journal	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
Volume	11
Issue	6
Pages (from-to)	3447-3456
Number of pages	10
ISSN	1867-1381
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3447-2018
Publication status	Published - 18 Jun 2018

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Huang, R. J., Cao, J., Chen, Y., Yang, L., Shen, J., You, Q., Wang, K., Lin, C., Xu, W., Gao, B., Li, Y., Chen, Q., Hoffmann, T., O'Dowd, C. D., Bilde, M., & Glasius, M. (2018). Organosulfates in atmospheric aerosol: Synthesis and quantitative analysis of PM2.5 from Xi'an, northwestern China. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 11(6), 3447-3456. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3447-2018

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