Detection of atmospheric gaseous amines and amides by a high-resolution time-of-flight chemical ionization mass spectrometer with protonated ethanol reagent ions

Abstract

Amines and amides are important atmospheric organic-nitrogen compounds but high time resolution, highly sensitive, and simultaneous ambient measurements of these species are rather sparse. Here, we present the development of a high-resolution time-of-flight chemical ionization mass spectrometer (HR-ToF-CIMS) method, utilizing protonated ethanol as reagent ions to simultaneously detect atmospheric gaseous amines (C₁ to C₆) and amides (C₁ to C₆). This method possesses sensitivities of 5.6-19.4Hzpptv^-1 for amines and 3.8-38.0Hzpptv^-1 for amides under total reagent ion signals of ∼ 0.32MHz. Meanwhile, the detection limits were 0.10-0.50pptv for amines and 0.29-1.95pptv for amides at 3σ of the background signal for a 1min integration time. Controlled characterization in the laboratory indicates that relative humidity has significant influences on the detection of amines and amides, whereas the presence of organics has no obvious effects. Ambient measurements of amines and amides utilizing this method were conducted from 25 July to 25 August 2015 in urban Shanghai, China. While the concentrations of amines ranged from a few parts per trillion by volume to hundreds of parts per trillion by volume, concentrations of amides varied from tens of parts per trillion by volume to a few parts per billion by volume. Among the C₁- to C₆-amines, the C₂-amines were the dominant species with concentrations up to 130pptv. For amides, the C₃-amides (up to 8.7ppb) were the most abundant species. The diurnal and backward trajectory analysis profiles of amides suggest that in addition to the secondary formation of amides in the atmosphere, industrial emissions could be important sources of amides in urban Shanghai. During the campaign, photo-oxidation of amines and amides might be a main loss pathway for them in daytime, and wet deposition was also an important sink.

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Detection of atmospheric gaseous amines and amides by a high-resolution time-of-ight chemical ionization mass spectrometer with protonated ethanol reagent ions

Lei Yao1, Ming-Yi Wang1,a, Xin-Ke Wang1, Yi-Jun Liu1,b, Hang-Fei Chen1, Jun Zheng2, Wei Nie3,4, Ai-Jun Ding3,4, Fu-Hai Geng5, Dong-Fang Wang6, Jian-Min Chen1, Douglas R. Worsnop7, and Lin Wang1,4

1Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention (LAP3), Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

2Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment Monitoring and Pollution Control, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China

3Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China

4Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, Nanjing 210023, China

5Shanghai Meteorology Bureau, Shanghai 200135, China

6Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Center, Shanghai 200030, China

7Aerodyne Research, Billerica, MA 01821, USA

anow at: Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

bnow at: Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27705, USA

Correspondence to: Lin Wang([email protected])

Received: 7 June 2016 Published in Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss.: 22 June 2016 Revised: 15 October 2016 Accepted: 3 November 2016 Published: 23 November 2016

Abstract. Amines and amides are important atmospheric organic-nitrogen compounds but high time resolution, highly sensitive, and simultaneous ambient measurements of these species are rather sparse. Here, we present the development of a high-resolution time-of-ight chemical ionization mass spectrometer (HR-ToF-CIMS) method, utilizing protonated ethanol as reagent ions to simultaneously detect atmospheric gaseous amines (C1 to C6) and amides (C1 to C6).

This method possesses sensitivities of 5.619.4 Hz pptv1 for amines and 3.838.0 Hz pptv1 for amides under total reagent ion signals of 0.32 MHz. Meanwhile, the detection

limits were 0.100.50 pptv for amines and 0.291.95 pptv for amides at 3 of the background signal for a 1 min integration time. Controlled characterization in the laboratory indicates that relative humidity has signicant inuences on the detection of amines and amides, whereas the presence of organics has no obvious effects. Ambient measurements of amines and amides utilizing this method were conducted from 25 July to 25 August 2015 in urban Shanghai, China. While the

concentrations of amines ranged from a few parts per trillion by volume to hundreds of parts per trillion by volume, concentrations of amides varied from tens of parts per trillion by volume to a few parts per billion by volume. Among the C1-to C6-amines, the C2-amines were the dominant species with concentrations up to 130 pptv. For amides, the C3-amides (up to 8.7 ppb) were the most abundant species. The diurnal and backward trajectory analysis proles of amides suggest that in addition to the secondary formation of amides in the atmosphere, industrial emissions could be important sources of amides in urban Shanghai. During the campaign, photo-oxidation of amines and amides might be a main loss pathway for them in daytime, and wet deposition was also an important sink.

Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.

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1 Introduction

Amines and amides are nitrogen-containing organic compounds widely observed in the atmosphere (Cape et al., 2011;Cheng et al., 2006; Ge et al., 2011; Laskin et al., 2009; Rogge et al., 1991;). They are emitted from a variety of natural and anthropogenic sources including agriculture, biomass burning, animal husbandry, cooking, smoking, synthetic leather, carbon capture, and other industrial processes (Finlayson-Pitts and Pitts, 2000; Ge et al., 2011; Kim et al., 2004; Kuhn et al., 2011; Nielsen et al., 2012; Schmeltz and Hoffmann, 1977; Zhu et al., 2013). In addition to the primary sources, amides can be formed from the degradation processes of amines (Nielsen et al., 2012) and atmospheric accretion reactions of organic acids with amines or ammonia (Barsanti and Pankow, 2006).

Once in the atmosphere, amines and amides can react with atmospheric oxidants (e.g., OH and NO3 radicals, Cl atoms, and O3), and lead to gaseous degradation products and the formation of secondary organic aerosols (Barnes et al., 2010; Bunkan et al., 2016; El Dib and Chakir, 2007; Lee and Wexler, 2013; Malloy et al., 2009; Murphy et al., 2007;Nielsen et al., 2012). In addition, the basic nature of amines certainly justies their participation in atmospheric new particle formation and growth events (Almeida et al., 2013;Berndt et al., 2010; Erupe et al., 2011; Glasoe et al., 2015;Kurtn et al., 2008; Murphy et al., 2007; Smith et al., 2010;Yu et al., 2012; Zhang et al., 2012). Compared with amines, acetamide (AA) has a very weak positive enhancement on the nucleation capability of sulfuric acid (Glasoe et al., 2015).Heterogeneous uptake of amines by acidic aerosols and displacement reactions of ammonium ions by amines can significantly alter the physicochemical properties of aerosol particles (Bzdek et al., 2010; Kupiainen et al., 2012; Qiu et al., 2011; Wang et al., 2010a, b).

Atmospheric gaseous amines have been measured in different surroundings. Kieloaho et al. (2013) used ofine acid-impregnated berglass lter collection together with analysis by a high-performance liquid chromatography electro-spray ionization ion trap mass spectrometer, and reported that the highest concentrations of C2-amines (ethylamine (EA) + dimethylamine (DMA)) and the sum of propylamine

and trimethylamine (TMA) reached 157 [notdef] 20 pptv (parts per

trillion by volume) and 102 [notdef] 61 pptv, respectively, in bo-

real forests in southern Finland. Using a similar detection method, the mean concentrations of C2-amines (EA+DMA),

C3-amines (propylamine+TMA), butylamine (BA), diethy

lamine (DEA) and TMA were measured to be 23.6, 8.4, 0.3,0.3, and 0.1 pptv, respectively, in urban air of Helsinki, Finland (Helln et al., 2014). Detection of gaseous alkyl amines were conducted in Toronto, Canada, using an ambient ion monitor ion chromatography system, and the concentrations of DMA, and TMA+DEA were both less than 2.7 pptv (parts

per trillion by volume; VandenBoer et al. 2011). In addition, Dawson et al. (2014) reported that TMA concentration was

up to 6.8 ppbv (parts per billion by volume) in Chino, USA, using an ofine ion chromatography analysis method.

Recently, online detection of atmospheric amines using a chemical ionization mass spectrometer has become the trend.Yu and Lee (2012) utilized a quadrupole chemical ionization mass spectrometer (CIMS) with protonated ethanol and acetone ions as reagent ions to measure C2-amines (8 [notdef] 3 pptv)

and C3-amines (16 [notdef] 7 pptv) in Kent, Ohio. A similar method

detected from a few parts per trillion by volume to tens of parts per trillion by volume of C3-amines in Alabama forest (You et al., 2014). Sellegri et al. (2005) reported the mean concentration of TMA and DMA were 59 and 12.2 pptv, respectively, in Hyytil forest, with a quadrupole-CIMS with hydronium ions as reagent ions. Additionally, at the same site, DMA concentration was measured to be less than 150 ppqv (parts per quadrillion by volume) in MayJune 2013 by an atmospheric pressure CIMS based on bisulfate-cluster method for DMA detection (Sipil et al. 2015). Measurements of amines in urban areas did not show signicant differences in terms of the absolute concentration. The average of total amines (C1C3) was 7.2 [notdef] 7.4 pptv in Nan

jing, China, as measured by a high-resolution time-of-ight CIMS (HR-ToF-CIMS) with hydronium ions as reagent ions (Zheng et al., 2015). Measurements by an ambient pressure proton transfer mass spectrometer (AmPMS) in urban Atlanta showed that TMA (or isomers or amide) was the most abundant amine species and that the concentration of DMA was 3 pptv (Hanson et al., 2011).

To the best of our knowledge, gaseous amides were not previously measured in ambient air, except for two studies that briey described the detection of a few amides near the emission source. Zhu et al. (2013) detected formamide (FA;C1-amide) formed from degradation of mono-ethanolamine in emissions from an industrial carbon capture facility, using proton transfer reaction time-of-ight mass spectrometry (PTR-ToF-MS). Furthermore, up to 4350 pptv of dimethylamide was observed near a municipal incinerator, waste collection center, and sewage treatment plant (Leach et al., 1999).

Given the important role of amines in atmospheric nucleation and other physicochemical processes, and the potential involvement of amides in a number of atmospheric processes, it is necessary to develop high time resolution and highly sensitive detection techniques for measurements of ambient amines and amides. Previous studies have proven CIMS to be a powerful instrument to detect gaseous amines and amides in laboratory studies and eld campaigns (Borduas et al., 2015; Bunkan et al., 2016; Hanson et al., 2011;Sellegri et al., 2005; Simon et al., 2016; Sipil et al., 2015; Yu and Lee, 2012; You et al., 2014; Zheng et al., 2015). However, the detection method for ambient amides with much lower concentrations than those in laboratory studies is still lacking. The popular usage of hydronium ions as reagent ions (e.g., PTR-MS and AmPMS) potentially leads to the relative humidity (RH) dependence of the background and

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Table 1. Proton afnity, sensitivity, calibration coefcient, 1 min detection limit at 3 of background signal during the laboratory characterization, and ambient background of selected amines and amides.

Compounds Proton afnity Sensitivity Calibration Detection Ambient (kcal mol1) (mean [notdef] ) coefcient limit background

(NIST, 2016) (Hz pptv1)a (102 MHz (pptv) (mean [notdef] )

Hz1 pptv) (pptv)b

Water 165.2Ethanol 185.6Ammonia 204.0Methylamine (C1-amine) 214.9 7.06 [notdef] 0.2 4.67 0.23 3.88 [notdef] 1.23

Dimethylamine (an isomer of C2-amines) 222.2 5.6 [notdef] 0.2 5.89 0.50 6.64 [notdef] 1.24

Trimethylamine (an isomer of C3-amines) 226.8 19.4 [notdef] 1.3 1.70 0.10 0.41 [notdef] 0.14

Diethylamine (an isomer of C4-amines) 227.6 6.4 [notdef] 0.4 5.03 0.42 3.59 [notdef] 1.04

N,N-Dimethyl-2-propanamine (an isomer of C5-amines) 232.0 0.68 [notdef] 0.32

Triethylamine (an isomer of C6-amines) 234.7 1.76 [notdef] 0.79

Formamide (C1-amide) 196.5 38.0 [notdef] 1.2 0.78 0.29 0.59 [notdef] 0.50

Acetamide (an isomer of C2-amides) 206.4 3.8 [notdef] 0.3 7.89 0.45 8.63 [notdef] 3.63

N-Methylformamide (an isomer of C2-amides) 203.5Propanamide (an isomer of C3-amides) 209.4 4.4 [notdef] 0.1 6.82 1.95 59.76 [notdef] 48.37

N-Methylacetamide (an isomer of C3-amides) 212.4 N,N-Dimethylformamide (an isomer of C3-amides) 212.1

N-Ethylacetamide (an isomer of C4-amides) 214.6 13.59 [notdef] 10.01

N,N-Dimethylacetamide (an isomer of C4-amides) 217.02,2-Dimethyl-propanamide (an isomer of C5-amides) 212.5 8.47 [notdef] 5.18

N,N-Dimethylbutyramide (an isomer of C6-amides) 220.3 2.60 [notdef] 1.40

a Sensitivities were obtained under total reagent ion signals of 0.32 MHz.

b Mean background values throughout the entire campaign [notdef] 1 standard deviation for C1- to C6-amines

and C1- to C6-amides.

sented. The potential sources and sinks of amines and amides are discussed.

2 Experiment

2.1 Instrumentation

An aerodyne HR-ToF-CIMS (Bertram et al., 2011) with protonated ethanol as reagent ions has been deployed to detect gaseous amines (C1 to C6) and amides (C1 to C6). Protonated ethanol reagent ions were generated by passing a pure air ow of 1 L min1 supplied by a zero air generator (Aadco 737) through a Pyrex bubbler containing ethanol ( 96 %,

J.T. Baker) and then through a 0.1 mCi 241Am radioactive source. A sample ow of 1.35 L min1 was introduced into the ionmolecule reaction (IMR) chamber where the sample ow and the reagent ion ow converge. The pressures of the IMR chamber and the small-segmented quadrupole (SSQ) were regulated at 100 and 2.8 mbar, respectively,

to increase the instrument sensitivity. Under such conditions, the ionmolecule reaction time was 320 ms in the IMR. To

minimize wall loss of analytes on the inner surface of IMR, the temperature of IMR was maintained at an elevated temperature (50 C). The data of HR-ToF-CIMS were collected at 1 Hz time resolution.

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ambient amine signals, adding uncertainties to measurement results (Hanson et al., 2011; Zheng et al., 2015; Zhu et al., 2013). In addition, constrained by the mass resolution of the quadrupole-detector mass spectrometer, it is difcult to distinguish protonated amines and amides with an identical unit mass, which pre-excludes the possibility of simultaneous measurements of amines and amides. For example, the m/z (mass to charge ratio) value of protonated trimethylamine (C3H9N

[a113]

H+, m/z 60.0808) and that of protonated acetamide (C2H5NO

[a113]

H+, m/z 60.0444) are very close.

In the present study, a HR-ToF-CIMS method utilizing protonated ethanol as reagent ions has been developed to simultaneously detect atmospheric gaseous amines (C1 to C6) and amides (C1 to C6). The proton afnity of ethanol (185.6 kcal mol1) is higher than that of water (165.2 kcal mol1), as shown in Table 1, resulting in more selectivity for detecting high proton afnity species (e.g., > 196 kcal mol1 for amines and amides; Nowak et al., 2002;

Yu and Lee, 2012; You et al., 2014). The inuences of RH and organics on amine and amide detection were characterized in the laboratory. Ambient measurements of amines and amides utilizing this method were performed from 25 July to25 August 2015 in urban Shanghai, China. During the campaign, a lter inlet for gases and aerosols (FIGAERO) was interfaced to HR-ToF-CIMS (Lopez-Hilker et al., 2014), but only results on gaseous C1C6 amines and amides are pre-

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Under dry conditions, the most abundant reagent ion was the protonated ethanol dimer ((C2H5OH)2[a113]

H+,

m/z 93.0910), with the second most dominant ions being the protonated ethanol monomer ((C2H5OH)

[a113]

H+,

m/z 47.0491) and the protonated ethanol trimer ((C2H5OH)3[a113]

H+, m/z 139.1329). The presence of water led to the formation of clusters of protonated ethanol with water (C2H5OH

[a113]

H2O

H+) and hydronium ions and their hydrates ((H2O)n

[a113]

H+, n = 1, 2, and 3). A typical

mass spectrum under < 20 % RH is shown in Fig. S1 in the Supplement. The ratio of the oxygen cation (O+2) to the total reagent ions (the sum of (C2H5OH) [notdef] H+, (C2H5OH)2 [notdef] H+,

and (C2H5OH)3 [notdef] H+) was 0.001. For the clusters of

protonated ethanol with water (C2H5OH [notdef] H2O [notdef] H+), the

ratio was 0.026. Additionally, the ratio of hydronium ions

((H2O)n [notdef] H+, n = 1, 2, and 3) to the total reagent ion was 0.011.

Amines and amides reacted dominantly with protonated ethanol ions ((C2H5OH)n

[a113]

[a113]

H+, n = 1, 2, and 3), compared to

water clusters, with the formation of protonated amines and amides clustering with up to one molecule of ethanol. The ionmolecule reactions of amines (denoted as NR3, with R being either a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group) and amides (denoted as R[prime]2NC(O)R, with R[prime] being either a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group) with protonated ethanol reagent ions can be represented by the following reactions (You et al., 2014; Yu and Lee, 2012):

(C2H5OH)n

[a113]H

+ + NR3 ! (C2H5OH)j [a113]NR3 [a113]H

+

+(n j)C2H5OH (R1) (C2H5OH)n

[a113]H

+ + R[prime]2NC(O)R ! (C2H5OH)j

[a113]R

+ + (n j)C2H5OH, (R2) where n = 1, 2, and 3, and j = 0 and 1.

2.2 Calibration of amines and amides

Amines and amides were calibrated using permeation sources. Permeation tubes for amines (methylamine (MA), DMA, TMA, and DEA) were purchased from VICI Inc. USA, whereas those for amides (FA, 99.5 %, GC, Sigma

Aldrich; AA, 99 %, GC, Sigma Aldrich; and propanamide

(PA), 96.5 %, GC, Sigma Aldrich) were made in-house us

ing 1/4 in. Teon tubes with the ends sealed with Teon blockers. The permeation tube was placed in a U-shaped glass tube with a diameter of 2.5 cm that was immersed in a liquid bath with precise temperature regulation (Zheng et al., 2015). A high-purity ( 99.999 %) nitrogen ow typically at

0.1 L min1 was used as the carrier gas to carry the permeated compounds to HR-ToF-CIMS for detection.

The concentration of an amine in the outow of the permeation tube was determined by an acidbase titration method (Freshour et al., 2014). The high-purity nitrogen ow containing an amine standard was bubbled through a HCl solution (pH = 4.5) with a small amount of KCl ( 5 mM)

added to facilitate measurements of pH values. Reagents HCl ( 37 wt % in water) and KCl ( 99 %) were of ACS

reagents and purchased from Sigma Aldrich. The concentration of the amine was derived according to variations of the pH values with titration time. The pH values were averaged and recorded by a pH meter (340i, WTW, Germany) every 5 min.

In the case of amides, a permeated alkyl amide was trapped in a HNO3 solution with a pH of 2.5 that was di

luted from reagent HNO3 ( 70 wt % in water, ACS reagent,

Sigma Aldrich). Hydrolysis of the alkyl amide occurred under acidic conditions leading to formation of NH+4 (Cox and

Yates, 1981). The concentration of NH+4 was quantied using ion chromatography (Metrohm 833, Switzerland), and the permeation rate of the alkyl amide was derived from the variation of NH+4 with the time period of hydrolysis.

The total ethanol reagent ion signals, i.e., the sum of the protonated ethanol monomer, dimer, and trimer, during the laboratory calibration were typically 0.32 MHz, which

yields a small correction because of the variation in total reagent ions between laboratory calibration and eld measurements, as stated in Sect. 2.4.

2.3 Inuence of RH and organics

Experiments were performed to characterize the inuence of RH and organics on the detection of amines and amides. The schematics of our experimental setup are shown in Fig. S2 (A for tests at elevated RH and B for tests in presence of organics), where the tubes and valves are made of polytetrauoroethylene (PTFE) and peruoroalkoxy (PFA) materials to minimize absorption of amines or amides on the inner surface of tubes and valves. To examine the inuence of RH, a pure air ow was directed through a bubbler lled with18.2 M[Omega1] cm deionized water, and then mixed with the amine or amide ow of 0.1 L min1 generated from the permeation sources. The examined RH ranged from 4 to 65 %.

-Pinene, a typical biogenic organic compound, and pxylene, a typical anthropogenic compound, were chosen to examine the inuence of organics on detection of amines and amides. The amines or amide ow was mixed with organics for 0.2 s before entering the IMR. During the charac

terization, the air ow (15 L min1) containing -pinene or p-xylene with concentrations up to 200 ppbv was initially

mixed with the amine or amide ow of 0.1 L min1 generated from the permeation sources. Then ozone and OH radicals were generated from an O2/H2O ow of 2 [notdef] 103 L min1

by turning on a Hg lamp (Jelight model 600, USA). Photo-chemical reactions of -pinene or p-xylene occurred and a much more complex mixture of organics was subsequently mixed with the amine or amide ow.

2NC(O)R

[prime]

[a113]H

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2.4 Field campaign in urban Shanghai

The ethanol HR-ToF-CIMS was deployed for a eld campaign at the Fudan site (31 17[prime]54[prime][prime] N, 121 30[prime]05[prime][prime] E) on the campus of Fudan University from 25 July through 25 August 2015. This monitoring site is on the rooftop of a teaching building that is 20 m above ground. About 100 m to the

north is the Middle Ring, which is one of the main overhead highways in Shanghai. This site is also inuenced by local industrial and residential activities. Hence, the Fudan site is a representative urban site (Ma et al., 2014; Wang et al., 2013a, 2016; Xiao et al., 2015).

The schematic of the ethanol HR-ToF-CIMS setup during the eld campaign is shown in Fig. S3. Ambient air was drawn into a PTFE tubing with a length of 2 m and an inner diameter of 3/8 in. To minimize the wall loss of amines and amides, a high sampling ow rate (15 L min1) was adopted, resulting in an inlet residence time of 0.26 s. Also, the

PTFE tubing was heated to 50 C by heating tapes. Because of the high concentrations of volatile organic compounds in the air of urban Shanghai, reagent ion depletion occurred during the initial tests of measurements of ambient samples.Hence, the ambient air was diluted with a high-purity nitrogen ow with a dilution ratio of 1 : 4.6. Under such con

ditions, variation of the total reagent ions ((C2H5OH)

[a113]

H+,

(C2H5OH)2

[a113]

H+) was less than 10 % between measurements of the background air and the ambient sample. The ethanol reagent ion signals were typically around 0.35 MHz throughout the entire campaign. To take the variation in total reagent ions between in laboratory calibration and during eld measurements into account, ambient concentrations of amines and amides were calculated according to

[aminesoramides]ambient = Camines or amides

[notdef]

H+, and (C2H5OH)3

[a113]

Pn=01 (aminesoramides) [notdef] (C2H5OH)n [notdef] H+

Pn=13(C2H5OH)nH+

, (1)

where C is a calibration coefcient obtained by dividing the total reagent ion signals in laboratory calibration by the sensitivity of an amine or amide. As shown in Eq. (1), to minimize the effect of the variation of reagent ions during eld measurements, the ambient signals of an amine or amide were normalized by the sum of ethanol clusters including the protonated ethanol monomer, dimer, and trimer.

During the campaign, a Filter Inlet for Gases and AEROsols (FIGAERO; Lopez-Hilker et al., 2014) was attached to the HR-ToF-CIMS. FIGAERO-HRToF-CIMS offers two operation modes. Direct gas sample analysis oc-curs with the HR-ToF-CIMS during simultaneous particle collection on a PTFE lter via a separate dedicated port. Particle analysis occurs via evaporation from the lter using temperature-programmed thermal desorption by heated ultra-high-purity nitrogen upstream of the HR-ToF-CIMS. A moveable lter housing automatically switches between the

Figure 1. Inuences of RH on the MS signals of methylamine (MA), trimethylamine (TMA), and propanamide (PA).

two modes. In our study, measurements of ambient gaseous samples were conducted for 20 min every hour, followed by analysis of particulate samples for 40 min. In this paper, we focus on measurements of gaseous samples and present results on detection of gaseous amines and amides.

During the 20 min period for analysis of ambient gaseous samples, background measurements were auto-performed for 5 min by a motor-driven three-way Teon solenoid valve, utilizing a high-purity nitrogen ow as the background gas.

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Figure S4 shows typical background signals during an ambient sampling period of 3 h. The average ambient background concentrations of amines (C1 to C6) and amides (C1 to C6)

throughout the eld campaign are presented in Table 1. The inlet memory of amines and amides were determined using an inlet spike approach. As shown in Fig. S5, the signals followed the sum of two decaying exponentials. The characteristic decaying times of two exponentials, which are displacement of amines and amides inside the inlet by pumping and removing amines and amides adsorbed on the inlet surface (Zheng et al., 2015), were 1.1 and 8.5 s for TMA, and 1.4 and 1.4 s for PA, respectively. These results demonstrate that a 5 min background sampling time is sufcient to eliminate the inlet memory.

All HR-ToF-CIMS data were analyzed with Tofware (Aerodyne Research, Inc. and Tofwerk AG) and Igor Pro (Wavemetrics) software. Concentrations of O3 were measured by an O3 analyzer (Model 49i, Thermo Scientic, USA). RH and temperature were measured by an automatic meteorological station (CAWS600, Huayun, China) at the Fudan site.

Solar radiation intensity measured by a pyranometer (Kipp & Zonen CMP6, Netherlands) was obtained from the Shanghai Pudong Environmental Monitoring Centre (31 14[prime] N, 121 32[prime] E, about 8.78 km from the Fudan site). Precipitation was recorded by a rainfall sensor (RainWise Inc., USA) located at the Huangxing Park monitoring station (31 17[prime] N, 121 32[prime] E, about 2.95 km from the Fudan site) of Shanghai Meteorology Bureau.

3 Results and discussion

3.1 Performance of ethanol HR-ToF-CIMS in the laboratory

3.1.1 Sensitivities and detection limits

The permeation rates of amines and amides were determined adopting methods of acidbase titration and hydrolysis of alkyl amides in an acidic solution, respectively. A typical plot for determination of the permeation rate of the DEA permeation tube is shown in Fig. S6. Plots for FA (C1-amide) and PA (an isomer of C3-amide) are used as examples for amides, as shown in Fig. S7. In summary, at 0 C, the permeation rates of MA, DMA, TMA, and

DEA permeation tubes were 6.9 [notdef] 0.7, 7.4 [notdef] 0.2, 5.1 [notdef] 0.8,

and 12.7 [notdef] 0.9 ng min1, respectively. Permeation rates of

in-house-made FA, AA, and PA permeation tubes were36.7 [notdef] 2.4, 5.2 [notdef] 0.5, and 29.1 [notdef] 1.6 ng min1, respectively,

at 0 C.

The high-purity nitrogen ow carrying the permeated amine or amide was then diluted with another high-purity nitrogen ow at different dilution ratios, and directed to HRToF-CIMS for detection under dry conditions (RH = 0 %).

Figure S8 shows the calibration curves of C1- to C4-amines and C1- to C3-amides. The derived sensitivities were 5.619.4 for amines and 3.838.0 Hz pptv1 for amides with the total reagent ions of 0.32 MHz, respectively. Also, the de

tection limits of amines and amides were 0.100.50 and0.291.95 pptv, respectively, at 3 of the background signal for a 1 min integration time. Sensitivities, calibration coefcients, and detection limits of the C1- to C4-amines (MA,

DMA, TMA, and DEA) and C1- to C3-amides (FA, AA, and PA), together with their proton afnities, are summarized in Table 1. The detection limits of C1- to C3-amines in our study are similar to those by Zheng et al. (2015) and You et al. (2014). The sensitivities of C1- to C4-amines are slightly better than those reported in You et al. (2014) and Yu and Lee (2012).

3.1.2 Effects of RH and organics

The presence of high concentrations of water is believed to have an effect on the ionmolecule reactions in IMR, given the proton transfer nature of our ionmolecule reactions and the high IMR pressure (providing longer ionmolecule reaction time) in our study. The detection of constant concentrations of amines and amides by HR-ToF-CIMS at various RH was characterized to evaluate the inuence of RH. Examined were MA (C1-amine) and TMA (C3-amine) under 065 % RH at 23 C, corresponding to 070 and 049 % enhancement in the MS signal, respectively. In the case of amides, the increase of the PA (C3-amide) signal was 038 under 055 % RH. These results show that RH has an obvious effect on the MS signals for amines and amides, which followed sigmoidal ts with R2 0.97 in the examined RH

range (Fig. 1).

At elevated RH, high concentrations of water resulted in the production of (H2O)mH+ (m = 1, 2 and 3) and

C2H5OH

[a113]

H2O

H+ ions (Fig. S1; Nowak et al., 2002). Proton transfer reactions of (H2O)mH+ (m = 1, 2 and 3) and

C2H5OH

[a113]

H2O

[a113]

H+ with amines and amides might occur leading to the formation of additional protonated amines and amides. In addition, the proton afnities of amines are generally higher than those of amides. Thus, the relative enhancement was more signicant for amines.

Since a large number of ambient organics can be detected by this protonated ethanol reagent ion methodology as shown later, laboratory measurements of amines and amides in presence of and in absence of organics formed from photo-oxidation of -pinene and p-xylene, respectively, were carried out to examine the inuence of organics on detection of amines and amides. Figure 2 shows the effects of biogenic ( -pinene) and anthropogenic (p-xylene) compounds and their photochemical reaction products on detection of amines (MA and TMA) and amide (PA) by our HR-ToFCIMS. After stable signals of amines or amide were established, introduction of -pinene and p-xylene, respectively, had little impact on detection of amines and amides. Initi-

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Figure 2. Inuences of organics on MS signals of methylamine (MA, a and b), trimethylamine (TMA, a and b), and propanamide (PA, c and d). Note that the right axis is used for the signal with an identical color, and other signals correspond to the left axis.

ation of photochemical reactions of -pinene and p-xylene upon turning on the Hg lamp, as evidenced by characteristic products of pinonaldehyde from -pinene (Lee et al., 2006) and 3-hexene-2,5-dione from p-xylene (Smith et al., 1999), respectively, did not have an obvious effect on detection of amines and amides, either.

3.2 Detection of amines and amides in urban Shanghai

3.2.1 Identication of nitrogen-containing species

One major challenge during analysis of mass spectra from the eld deployment of the ethanol HR-ToF-CIMS is to distinguish amines and amides with very close m/z values in order to achieve simultaneous measurements. Thanks to the high mass resolving power (R 3500 in V-mode)

of our HR-ToF-CIMS, we are able to distinguish and identify the following protonated amines: CH5N

[a113]

H+

(m/z 88.0757), C5H11NO

[a113]

H+ (m/z 102.0913), and

C6H13NO

H+ (m/z 116.1069)), as well as a few oxamides (C3H5NO2

[a113]

H+ (m/z 88.0393), C4H7NO2

[a113]

[a113]

H+

(m/z 102.0550), and C5H7NO2

[a113]

H+ (m/z 116.0760)), as shown by the single peak tting for each of them in Fig. 3.The assignment of molecular formulas for these species is within a mass tolerance of < 10 ppm, and the tted area ranges from 99 to 101 %.

We further analyzed the entire mass spectra and assigned a molecular formula to 202 species with m/z values less than 163 Th as listed in Table S1 in the Supplement, which allows a mass defect plot for typical 15 min mass spectra in Fig. 4a.In addition to the protonated C1- to C6-amines and amides, the presence of their clusters with one ethanol molecule is evident, which further conrms the identication of these species. A number of gaseous amines have been previously detected in the ambient air utilizing a quadrupole mass spectrometer (Freshour et al., 2014; Hanson et al., 2011; Sell-egri et al., 2005; You et al., 2014; Yu and Lee, 2012). As suggested by Hanson et al. (2011), an amine and an amide with one fewer carbon might both have high enough proton afnities and could be detected at the same unit m/z value by a quadrupole mass spectrometer, leading to uncertainty in

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(m/z 32.0495), C2H7N

[a113]

H+ (m/z 46.0651), C3H9N

[a113]

H+

(m/z 60.0808), C4H11N

[a113]

H+ (m/z 74.0964), C5H13N

[a113]

H+

(m/z 88.1121), and C6H15N

[a113]

H+ (m/z 102.1277), and

amides (CH3NO

[a113]

H+ (m/z 46.0287), C2H5NO

(m/z 60.0444), C3H7NO

[a113]

H+ (m/z 74.0600), C4H9NO

[a113]

[a113]

H+

H+

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Figure 3. High-resolution single peak tting (custom shape) for amines and amides. During the peak deconvolution, only peaks whose areas are more than 0.5 % of the total will be included in the gure legend.

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tentially have the capacity to neutralize atmospheric acidic species (e.g., H2SO4, HNO3 and organic acids) to contribute to secondary particle formation and growth.

Apart from clusters of ammonia, C1- to C6-amines, and C1- to C6-amides with water or ethanol, there were48 CaHbNcOd species representing 55.8 % of the total nitrogen-containing species. This suggests that more than half of the nitrogen-containing species existed as oxygenated compounds in the atmosphere in urban Shanghai. One important atmospheric nitrogen-containing compound, isocyanic acid (HNCO; Roberts et al., 2011), is not listed in Table S1, because the proton afnity of isocyanic acid is 180.0 kcal mol1, which is less than that of ethanol (185.6 kcal mol1). Hence, the ethanol reagent ions are not sensitive to the detection of isocyanic acid.

The remaining 116 species with m/z less than 163 Th are mostly organics (see Table S1). Above m/z = 163 Th, nu

merous mass peaks were observed, which are likely organics and nitrogen-containing species. These high-molecular-weight species are assumed to have a low volatility and may partition between the gas phase and the particles.

3.2.2 Time proles of amines and amides

During the eld measurement, the average RH of the diluted gaseous samples was 15.8 [notdef] 3.5 %. According to our labo

ratory characterization, the MS signals of MA, TMA, and PA at 15.8 % RH have been on average enhanced by 10, 9, and 19 %, respectively, from our calibration under dry conditions. Here, we use our sigmoidal ts to convert each of our ambient data points to the signal under dry conditions (RH = 0 %), and calculate the corresponding concentra

tion. Since MA and TMA behaved quite similarly at elevated RH, the sigmoidal t for TMA is also applied to the C2-amines and C4- to C6-amines. Also, the sigmoidal t for

PA is adopted for other amides. Since high-purity nitrogen (RH = 0 %) was used as the background sample during the

ambient campaign, no RH-dependent correction was made with background signals.

Assuming C1- to C4-amines have the same proton afnity as MA, DMA, TMA, and DEA, respectively, the sensitivities of MA, DMA, TMA, and DEA were used to quantify C1- to C4-amines. Since the sensitivities of C5- to C6-amine standards were not determined, the sensitivity of DEA by HR-ToF-CIMS was adopted to quantify C5- to C6-amines. A similar approach was utilized to quantify C1- to C3-amides by sensitivities of FA, AA, and PA, respectively. In addition, the sensitivity of PA was used to quantify C4- to C6-amides.

Figure 5 presents the time proles for mixing ratios of C1-to C6-amines and C1- to C6-amides from 25 July to 25 August 2015 in urban Shanghai. Note that each data point in the gure represents an average of 15 min measurements. Tables 2 and 3 summarize the mean concentrations of C1- to

C6-amines and C1- to C6-amides throughout the entire cam-

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Figure 4. Mass defect diagram for (a) protonated amines (C1C6) and amides (C1C6) and their clusters with ethanol, together with other species with m/z less than 163 Th in the ambient sample; and(b) all nitrogen-containing species with m/z less than 163 Th in the ambient sample. Circle diameters are proportional to log10 (count rates).

measuring the ambient amine. In this study, C1- to C6-amines and C1- to C6-amides are, for the rst time, systematically and simultaneously detected in ambient air.

In addition to the protonated C1- to C6-amines and C1- to C6-amides and their clusters with ethanol, we were able to detect many other nitrogen-containing species (e.g., ammonia). Among the 202 species with m/z less than 163 Th, there were 86 nitrogen-containing species (Fig. 4b and Table S1). Four imines (or enamines) including CH3N, C2H5N, C3H7N, and C4H9N were detected. These imines (or enamines) could derive from photo-oxidation of amines (Nielsen et al., 2012) and play important roles in atmospheric processes (Bunkan et al., 2014). In addition, a number of heterocyclic nitrogen-containing species including pyrrole, pyrroline, pyrrolidine, pyridine, and pyrimidine were potentially detected (see Table S1). Berndt et al. (2014) reported that pyridine was able to enhance nucleation in H2SO4H2O system. Also, proton afnities of most of these heterocyclic nitrogen-containing compounds are higher than that of ammonia; hence they po-

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be treated with caution (Sipil et al. 2015) potentially hinting that sources for amines existed in the forest region of Hyytil, Finland. Our C1- and C2-amines are generally more abundant than those in agricultural, coastal, continental, suburban, and urban areas (Freshour et al., 2014; Hanson et al., 2011; Kieloaho et al., 2013; Krten et al., 2016; Sell-egri et al., 2005; You et al., 2014). However, our C3- to C6-amines are less abundant, potentially because we are able to distinguish an amine, an amide with one fewer carbon, and an oxamide with two fewer carbons (see Fig. 3).

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Figure 5. Time series of amines (a) and amides (b). Concentrations of amines and amides are 15 min average values.

paign, together with comparison of amine and amide concentrations reported in previous eld studies.

For C1- to C6-amines, the average concentrations ([notdef]) were 15.7 [notdef] 5.9, 40.0 [notdef] 14.3, 1.1 [notdef] 0.6, 15.4 [notdef] 7.9,

3.4 [notdef] 3.7, and 3.5 [notdef] 2.2 pptv, respectively. C1-amine, C2-

amines, and C4-amines were the dominant amine species in urban Shanghai. The concentrations of amines in Shanghai are generally smaller than those in Hyytil, Finland (Helln et al., 2014; Kieloaho et al., 2013; Sellegri et al., 2005) except for in one study that, as stated by the authors, should

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Table 2. Inter-comparison of gaseous amines measured in different locations with different surroundings.

Location C1-Amine C2-Amines C3-Amines C4-Amines C5-Amines C6-Amines Ref. (site type, season) (pptv) (pptv) (pptv) (pptv) (pptv) (pptv)

Hyytil, Finland (Forested, spring) 12.2 [notdef] 7.7

a 59 [notdef] 35.5

a Sellegri et al. (2005)

Hyytil, Finland (Forested, spring ) < 0.15 Sipil et al. (2015) Hyytil, Finland (Forested, summer, and autumn) 157 [notdef] 20

b 102 [notdef] 61

b 15.5 [notdef] 0.5

b Kieloaho et al. (2013)

Hyytil, Finland (Forested, summer) 39.1c 10.2c 8.1c 1.6c Helln et al. (2014) Alabama, USA (Forested, summer) < 1.2 < 4.8 110 < 23.1 < 17.3 < 13.0 You et al. (2014) Vielbrunn, Germany (Agricultural, spring) 15 1 15 15 15 Krten et al. (2016)

Kent, USA (Suburban, winter) < 18 8 [notdef] 3

a 16 [notdef] 7

a < 41 < 8 Yu and Lee (2012)

Kent, USA (Suburban, summer) 14 < 4.4 510 1050 10100 < 13.1 You et al. (2014) Lewes, USA (Coastal, summer) 5c 28c 6c 3c 1c 2c Freshour et al. (2014) Lamont, USA (Continental, spring) 4c 14c 35c 150c 98c 20c Freshour et al. (2014) Nanjing, China (Industrialized, summer) 0.118.9 0.129.9 0.19.3 Zheng et al. (2014) Atlanta, USA (Urban, summer) < 0.2 0.52 415 5

d 45d 325 Hanson et al. (2011)

Helsinki, Finland (Urban, summer) 23.6c 8.4c 0.3c 0.1c Helln et al. (2014) Toronto, Canada (Urban, summer) < 2.7 < 2.7 < 1.0 VandenBoer et al. (2011) Shanghai, China (Urban, summer) 15.7 [notdef] 5.9

e 40.0 [notdef] 14.3

e 1.1 [notdef] 0.6

e 15.4 [notdef] 7.9

e 3.4 [notdef] 3.7

e 3.5 [notdef] 2.2

e This study

a Mean values [notdef] 1 standard deviation.

b The highest concentrations during the measurement. c Mean values. d 8 h average values. e Mean values throughout the entire campaign [notdef] 1 standard deviation.

Table 3. Inter-comparison of gaseous amides measured in different locations with different surroundings.

Location C1-Amide C2-Amides C3-Amides C4-Amides C5-Amides C6-Amides Ref. (site type, season) (pptv) (pptv) (pptv) (pptv) (pptv) (pptv)

Southampton, UK (Suburban, spring, 3684357 Leach et al. (1999) summer, and autumn)

Shanghai, China (Urban, summer) 2.3 [notdef] 0.7 169.2 [notdef] 51.5 778.2 [notdef] 899.8 167.8 [notdef] 97.0 34.5 [notdef] 13.3 13.8 [notdef] 5.2 This study

Mean values throughout the entire campaign [notdef] 1 standard deviation.

Figure 6. Time proles of the rainfall, C2-amines, and C3-amides.

For C1- to C6-amides, the average concentrations ([notdef])

were 2.3 [notdef] 0.7, 169.2 [notdef] 51.5, 778.2 [notdef] 899.8, 167.8 [notdef] 97.0,

34.5 [notdef] 13.3, and 13.8 [notdef] 5.2 pptv, respectively. C2-amides,

C3-amides, and C4-amides were the most abundant amides in urban Shanghai during the campaign and their concentrations were up to hundreds of parts per trillion by volume. Up to now, studies that report systematic identication and quantication of amides in the ambient air are lacking. Leach et al. (1999) detected N,N-dimethylformamide (an isomer of C3-amides) of 3684357 pptv in a suburban area surrounded by municipal incinerator, waste collection and processing center, and sewage treatment plant. In the ambient air, C1- to

C6-amides may derive from oxidation of C1- to C6-amines. N,N-dimethylformamide is a major product with a yield of

40 % from photolysis experiments of TMA under high NOx conditions (Nielsen et al, 2011). Also, the yields of formamide (C1-amide) and methylforamide (C2-amide) from

OH-initiated MA and DMA in the presence of NOx are 11

and 13 %, respectively (Nielsen et al, 2012). Comparison

of the abundance of amines and amides during the campaign, together with the yields of amides from photo-oxidation of amines, suggests that the ambient C1- to C3-amines were insufcient to explain the observed abundance of C1- to C3-amides. Therefore, in addition to secondary sources, C1- to

C6-amides likely were emitted from primary sources (e.g., industrial emissions).

Figure 6 shows a close examination of the temporal variations of C2-amines and C3-amides, representatives of the observed amines and amides, together with that of rainfall between 20 and 25 August 2015. The plots clearly reveal that the concentrations of C2-amines and C3-amides on raining days were constant at low levels, much lower than those without rain, and that C2-amines and C3-amides rapidly went up after the rain. Previous studies reported that wet deposition is one of the important sinks of amines (Cornell et al., 2003; Ge et al., 2011; You et al., 2014). Our study further indicates that wet deposition (or heterogeneous reactions) is also an important sink for amides.

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Figure 7. The averaged diurnal proles of C1- and C2-amines and C3- and C4-amides, together with those of temperature, radiation, and ozone concentration during the campaign.

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Figure 8. Three-day backward retro-plumes (100 m above the ground level) from the sampling location at (a) 05:00, 12 August 2015;(b) 21:00, 20 August 2015; (c) 06:00, 21 August 2015; and (d) 06:00, 25 August 2015. The embedded boxes show 12 h backward trajectories.

3.2.3 Diurnal patterns

Figure 7 presents the averaged diurnal variations of C1- and C2-amines and C3- and C4-amides, together with those of temperature, radiation, and ozone concentration during the campaign. Diurnal patterns for amines and amides with less variation are exhibited in Fig. S9. Mixing ratios of C1- and

C2-amines and C3- and C4-amides reached their peak values in the early morning (06:0007:00 LT), and then started to decline as the temperature increased. The mixing ratios were normally the lowest during the day when the temperature rose to the top. The diurnal behavior of amines and amides can be explained by the strong photochemical reactions of these species during the daytime (Barnes et al., 2010; Borduas et al., 2015; Nielsen et al., 2012), especially in summer, as evidenced by the negative correlations between the

mixing ratios and radiation (exponential ts with 0.0002

exponents 0.0001), and between the mixing ratios and

ozone (exponential ts with 0.003 exponents 0.001),

a tracer for photochemical activities. Also, nighttime chemistry of amines with NO3 radicals could be active. In summer nighttime of Shanghai, the NO3 radical concentration could be up to 1010 radicals cm3 (Wang et al., 2013b) and the reaction rates of amines with NO3 radicals are on the order of 1013 cm3 molecular1s1 (Nielsen et al., 2012). Hence, high mixing ratios of amines at nighttime could be a secondary source of amides through reactions of amines with NO3 radicals.

In addition, an opposite tendency between the mixing ratios and the temperature (exponential ts with 0.067 ex

ponents 0.049) is clearly evident in our study, which is

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in contrast to the positive temperature dependence of C3-amines and C6-amines in previous studies (Hanson et al., 2011; You et al., 2014; Yu and Lee, 2012). The positive temperature dependencies of C3-amines were explained by deposition of amines onto soil or grass landscapes at night and then partitioning back to the atmosphere in the morning when the surface heats (Hanson et al., 2011; You et al., 2014). On the other hand, land surface in Shanghai is mainly covered by bitumen and cement, on which the behavior of amines might be different.

3.2.4 Source identication for C3-amides

A Lagrangian dispersion model has been utilized to further understand the potential sources of C3-amides.

This Lagrangian modeling simulation is based on Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT;Draxler and Hess, 1998; Stein et al., 2015) following the method developed by Ding et al. (2013). Three-day backward retro-plumes (100 m above the ground level) from the Fudan sampling site are shown for air masses with mixing ratios of C3-amides > 2670 pptv in Fig. 8, and for air masses with the C3-amide concentration range between 1340 pptv and 2650 pptv in Fig. S10. Especially, in Fig. 8a, the concentration of C3-amides reached 8700 pptv. The embed

ded 12 h retro-plumes give a better view of the local zones through which the air masses with high concentrations of C3-amides passed before their arrival to the sampling site.

Since the atmospheric lifetimes of N,N-dimethylformamide (an isomer of C3-amides) and its potential precursor TMA (an isomer of C3-amines) in respect to reactions with OH radicals are 3 and 10 h, respectively, using a 12 h aver

age OH radical concentration of 2 [notdef] 106 radicals cm3, C3-

amides were likely emitted or formed along the trajectory. As shown in Fig. 8ad, the air plumes with high concentrations of C3-amides mainly originated from the sea and came from the north of Shanghai. The air mass passed through predominantly industrial areas and cities after landing, and Baoshan industrial zone (one of the main industrial zones in Shanghai) was right on its path during the last 12 h. Therefore, industrial emissions (or other anthropogenic emissions) might be important sources of C3-amides.

Figure S10ae present another ve cases with the next highest concentrations of C3-amides. The air masses primarily came from southwest of the sampling site, and then passed through industrial areas and cities before arrival, including Songjiang and Jinshan industrial zones (another two main industrial zones in Shanghai) during the last 12 h. These results also suggest that industrial emissions or other anthropogenic activities might be important sources of C3-amides.

4 Conclusions

This paper presents laboratory characterization of an ethanol HR-ToF-CIMS method for detection of amines and amides, and 1-month eld deployment of the ethanol HR-ToF-CIMS in urban Shanghai during summer 2015. Laboratory characterization indicates that our sensitivities for amines were5.619.4 and were 3.838.0 Hz pptv 1 for amides. At 3 of the background signal for a 1 min integration time, the detection limits were 0.100.50 for amines and 0.291.95 pptv for amides. Our sensitivities are slightly better than those in previous studies using a similar protonated ethanol-CIMS method (You et al., 2014; Yu and Lee, 2012). Correction of the mass signals of amines and amides is necessary at elevated RH because of the signicant RH dependence of detection of amines and amides as observed in the laboratory.On the other hand, organics with high proton afnity are unlikely to pose an effect on the detection of amines and amides as along as their concentrations will not lead to reagent ion depletion.

High time resolution, highly sensitive and simultaneous measurements of amines (from a few parts per trillion by volume to hundreds of parts per trillion by volume) and amides (from tens of parts per trillion by volume to a few parts per billion by volume) have been achieved during the ambient campaign. Their diurnal proles suggest that primary emissions could be important sources of amides in urban Shanghai, in addition to the secondary formation processes, and that photo-oxidation and wet deposition of amines and amides might be their main loss pathway.

A total of 86 nitrogen-containing species including amines and amides were identied with m/z less than 163 Th,55.8 % of which are oxygenated. This certainly indicates that the ethanol HR-ToF-CIMS method potentially has a much wider implication in terms of measuring atmospheric nitrogen-containing species. For example, imines (or enamines) and a number of heterocyclic nitrogen-containing compounds (e.g., pyridine and quinoline; see Table S1) were potentially detected by this method.

Nevertheless, the detection of amides in ambient air is consistent with the photochemical chemistry that has been previously studied in the laboratory (Barnes et al., 2010; Borduas et al., 2015; Bunkan et al., 2016; Nielsen et al, 2012). The mixing ratios of amides were signicantly higher than those of amines in urban Shanghai during our measurements. Since the newly formed nano-particles are likely highly acidic (Wang et al., 2010a), hydrolysis of amides will give rise to NH+4 in the particle, in addition to those formed through direct neutralization between gaseous ammonia and particulate sulfuric acid. Although signicant progress on the roles of ammonia and amines in the atmospheric nucleation have been made (Almeida et al., 2013; Krten et al., 2014) and it has been shown that acetamide can only slightly enhance the nucleation rate of sulfuric acid (Glasoe et al., 2015), the

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exact contribution of amides during atmospheric nucleation and subsequent growth events is yet to be elucidated.

The Supplement related to this article is available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-14527-2016-supplement

Web End =doi:10.5194/acp-16-14527-2016-supplement .

Acknowledgements. This study was nancially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 21190053, 21222703, 41275142, 21561130150, & 41575113), the Ministry of Science & Technology of China (2012YQ220113-4), and the Cyrus Tang Foundation (no. CTF-FD2014001). LW thanks the Royal SocietyNewton Advanced Fellowship (NA140106).

Edited by: J. G. MurphyReviewed by: three anonymous referees

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