Determination and potential importance of diterpene (kaur-16-ene) emitted from dominant coniferous trees in Japan

Sou N. Matsunaga, Satoru Chatani, Seiji Nakatsuka, Dai Kusumoto, Katsuyoshi Kubota, Yasuhiro Utsumi, Tsutomu Enoki, Akira Tani, Tsutom Hiura

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Abstract

Reactive volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are known to affect atmospheric chemistry. Biogenic VOCs (BVOCs) have a significant impact on regional air quality due to their large emission rates and high reactivities. Diterpenes (most particularly, kaur-16-ene) were detected in all of the 205 enclosure air samples collected over multiple seasons at two different sites from Cryptomeria japonica and Chamaecyparis obtusa trees, the dominant coniferous trees in Japan,. The emission rate of kaur-16-ene, was determined to be from 0.01 to 7.1μgdwg-1h-1 (average: 0.61μgdwg-1h-1) employing branch enclosure measurements using adsorbent sampling followed by solid phase-liquid extraction techniques. The emission rate was comparable to that of monoterpenes, which is known major BVOC emissions, collected from the same branches. In addition, total emission of kaur-16-ene at 30°C was estimated to exceed that of total anthropogenic VOC emissions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)886-893
Number of pages8
JournalChemosphere
Volume87
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2012

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Chemistry(all)
  • Pollution
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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