A chain reaction called autoxidation is enabled by high engine temperatures. But it also acts as an important source of highly oxygenated compounds in the atmosphere that form organic aerosol ...

Article #17-15540: "Atmospheric autoxidation is increasingly important in urban and suburban North America," by Eric Praske et al. MEDIA CONTACT: Paul O. Wennberg, California Institute of ...

By judicious choice of the solvent and light input, approximately room-temperature autoxidation of aldehydes proceeds in a manner that results in industrially useful peracids or carboxylic acids.