Emory’s eScienceCommons blog, “Chemists map cascade of reactions for producing atmosphere’s ‘detergent’,” features findings from Joel Bowman‘s recent Nature Chemistry paper.
“We’ve solved another piece of the puzzle in the formation of hydroxyl radicals, by zooming in to see all the steps of the reaction in much finer detail than ever before,” says co-author Joel Bowman, a theoretical chemist at Emory. “This kind of detailed data is important to atmospheric chemists trying to make predictive models for how the atmosphere will respond to climate change.”