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Intermediates just want to react

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Many of the rate parameters used in models of tropospheric chemistry are obtained through laboratory ozonolysis experiments. Now, results on the self-reaction of an important, but long-elusive, intermediate could alter many of those inferences.

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Figure 1: A small subset of the chemical transformations that occur in ozonolysis of ethene are depicted.

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  1. Dudley E. Shallcross is in the Biogeochemistry Research Centre, School of Chemistry, The University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK

  2. Carl J. Percival is in The Centre for Atmospheric Science, The School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Science, The University of Manchester, Simon Building, Brunswick Street, Manchester M13 9PL, UK

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  1. Craig A. Taatjes is in the Combustion Research Facility, Mailstop 9055, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, 94551 USA,

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Taatjes, C., Shallcross, D. & Percival, C. Intermediates just want to react. Nature Chem 6, 461–462 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1966

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