ACP Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ACP 1680-7324 Copernicus GmbH Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/acp-3-2233-2003 Kinetics of the gas-phase reactions of OH radicals with alkanes and cycloalkanes Atkinson R. 1 Air Pollution Research Center, and Department of Environmental Sciences, and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA 22 12 2003 3 6 2233 2307 This is an open-access article ditributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This article is available from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/3/2233/2003/acp-3-2233-2003.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/3/2233/2003/acp-3-2233-2003.pdf

The available database concerning rate constants for gas-phase reactions of the hydroxyl (OH) radical with alkanes through early 2003 is presented over the entire temperature range for which measurements have been made (~180-2000 K). Measurements made using relative rate methods are re-evaluated using recent rate data for the reference compound (generally recommendations from this review). In general, whenever more than one study has been carried out over an overlapping temperature range, recommended rate constants or temperature-dependent rate expressions are presented. The recommended 298 K rate constants, temperature-dependent parameters, and temperature ranges over which these recommendations are applicable are listed in Table 1.