Surprising chiral composition changes over the Amazon rainforest with height, time and season
Surprising chiral composition changes over the Amazon rainforest with height, time and season
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London: Nature Publishing Group UK
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Many biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOC) are chiral, existing in two mirror image forms called enantiomers. The most abundant atmospheric chiral BVOC is α-pinene (C
10
H
16
), whose enantiomeric ratio has been reported to be regiospecific. Here we show with measurements made on a 325 m tower in the Amazon rainforest that the enan...
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Surprising chiral composition changes over the Amazon rainforest with height, time and season
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2528862417
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2662-4435
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2662-4435
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10.1038/s43247-020-0007-9
