Atmospheric Reaction Chemistry

Dr. Hajime Akimoto received his B.S. in 1962 and PhD in 1967 in physical chemistry from Tokyo Institute of Technology. For his postdoctoral research he spent three years during 1969-71 in Department of Chemistry at University of California, Riverside, and worked on chemistry of photochemical air pollution. In 1974 he joined National Institute for Environmental Studies in Tsukuba as a head of Atmospheric Chemistry Section in Atmospheric Environment Division, and then serves as Chief of Atmospheric Environment Division and Global Environment Division. Then, he moved to Research Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo as a professor in 1993. In 2000, he joined Frontier Research Center for Global Change now under Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology as a Director of Atmospheric Composition Research Program. After 2010 he serves as director general of Asia Center for Air Pollution Research in Niigata, Japan.

Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry.- Dawn of Modern Chemistry and Chemistry of Atmosphere.- Chemistry of Atmosphere to Atmospheric Chemistry.- Textbooks of Atmospheric Chemistry.- Fundamentals of Chemical Reactions.- Photochemistry and Photolytic Reactions.- Bimolecular Reactions.- Termolecular and Unimolecular Reactions.- Multiphase Heterogeneous Reactions.- Solar Radiation and Actinic Flux.- Solar Spectrum Outside of the Atmosphere.- Attenuation of Solar Radiation by N2, O2 and O3 in the Atmosphere.- Solar Zenith Angle and Air Mass.- Scattering by Atmospheric Molecule and Particles, and Surface Albedo.- Actinic Flux and Photolysis Rates.- Absorption Spectrum of Atmospheric Molecules, and Photolysis Reactions.- Solar Spectrum in the Troposphere and the Stratosphere.- Photolysis in the Troposphere.- Photolysis in the Stratosphere.- Photolysis of Inorganic Halogen Compounds.- Homogeneous Elementary Reactions in the Atmosphere and Rate Constants.- Reactions of O(3P) and O(1D) Atoms.- Reactions of OH Radicals.- Reactions of HO2 and CH3O2 Radicals.- Reactions of O3.- Reactions of NO3 Radicals.- Reactions of Cl Atoms and ClO Radicals.- Heterogeneous Reactions in the Atmosphere and Uptake Coefficients.- Uptake to Water Droplet.- Uptake to Sea Salt and Alkali Halides, and Surface Reactions.- Uptake to Soil and Mineral Dusts, and Surface Reactions.- Uptake to Soot, and Surface Reactions.- Surface Reactions on Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSC).- Tropospheric Reaction Chemistry.- HOx Chain Reactions and Oxidation of Methane in the Natural Atmosphere.- Oxidation Reactions of VOC in the Polluted Atmosphere.- Production and Loss of O3 by HOx Chain Reactions.- Measurements of OH and HO2 Radicals in the Atmosphere, and Validation of Models.- Tropospheric Halogen Chemistry.- Tropospheric Sulfur Chemistry.- “Discovery” of OH Radical Chain Mechanism.- Smog Chamber.- Stratospheric Reaction Chemistry.- Pure Oxygen Atmosphere and Ozone Layer.- Ozone Loss Cycles by Trace Gases.- Gas Phase Chain Reactions and Ozone Destruction by CFC.- Multiphase Reactions on PSC and Ozone Hole.- Stratospheric Sulfur Chemistry.