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Thermal and photoinduced chemistry of the aromatic Criegee intermediate, benzaldehyde oxide: Implications for indoor air quality

Essential oils contain a complex mixture of volatile organic compounds, ranging from terpenes to aromatics. When released into the indoor air environment or into the atmosphere, they may undergo oxidation to generate complex reactive intermediates that affect indoor air quality. Cinnamaldehyde is one such aromatic molecule that is abundant in essential oils. When released into the indoor air environment, it may undergo oxidation to form a carbonyl oxide (Criegee intermediate) with an aromatic substituent: benzaldehyde oxide. In this manuscript, we present a high-level quantum chemical study that shows that, unlike smaller atmospherically relevant Criegee intermediates, benzaldehyde oxide is expected to undergo solar photolysis on timescales that are competitive with its ground state unimolecular and bimolecular chemistry. We show that aromatic substitution leads to a drastic bathochromic shift in the spectroscopically relevant excited states, revealing that photolysis in the indoor or outdoor environment should not be neglected when modeling the climate and air quality implications of Criegee intermediates with extended conjugation. Here, we predict a range of products that may be important for forming lower volatility compounds via tropospherically relevant photochemistry. To motivate future experimental validation of our results, we propose a viable synthetic procedure of the relevant precursor for generating and stabilizing benzaldehyde oxide.

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