Sulfur plays a major role in air pollution due to the copious emissions of sulfur dioxide from fossil fuel combustion. In the atmosphere, sulfur dioxide is oxidized to sulfuric acid, which drives multiphase chemistry with organic compounds of biogenic origin to create a plethora of organosulfate compounds in the aerosol phase. Evaluation of the environmental and health impacts of organosulfates relies on knowledge of their molecular composition as well as quantitative information about their atmospheric presence. This Research Front of Environmental Chemistry brings together papers reporting the detection and quantification of organosulfates in various atmospheric environments across the world, and thereby produces new insights into the atmospheric chemistry of organosulfates.
The papers will go through the usual review process, and will be published Online Early as they are accepted. However, as they will be compiled across several issues of Environmental Chemistry, they are being collated into this virtual issue as they are published. Deadline for submissions is 1 September 2019.
Guest Editor: Jian Zhen Yu, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
, Dominik van Pinxteren , Yuchen Wang , Jian Zhen Yu and Hartmut Herrmann