Abstract
Evaluating the volatility of organic compounds based solely on their molecular formulas would avoid tough demands in deriving molecular structures. Here, we deployed an iodide-adduct Long Time-of-Flight Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry (LToF-CIMS) combined with a Filter Inlet for Gases and AEROsols (FIGAERO) to investigate molecular formulas and thermograms of organic compounds on ambient particulate samples collected in the summer of 2021 in a suburban site of Shanghai and to estimate saturation vapor pressures of low- and semivolatile components of ambient organic aerosols. Then, a hierarchical cluster analysis and a subsequent classification of obtained clusters by similarity calculation were applied to the measured data set of molecular formulas and saturation vapor pressures of organic aerosols with at least a 2/3 appearance frequency, together with a similar data set collected at a rural site in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region during the winter of 2018 (Ren et al., 2018), to classify all compounds into multiple groups. For each group of compounds, parametrizations between volatility and elemental composition were derived, and then relationships between each group of parameters and the mean O:C were established to achieve a volatility-molecular formula parametrization with the O:C as a key input. Statistical comparison of estimated volatilities of low-volatile organic compounds shows a much better performance of our parametrization than previous molecular formula-based ones.
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