Heterogeneous and Liquid-Phase Reactions of BVOCs with Inorganic Pollutants in the Urban Atmosphere

Abstract

This paper tries to say that urban air pollutants, which definitely are dangerous chemicals, can be efficiently removed from urban atmospheres by reactions with biogenic volatile organic compounds emitted by urban vegetation. It briefly recollects several ideas concerning a profitable coexistence of anthropogenic and green urban spaces in contemporary cities, and reviews recent achievements in the chemistry of BVOC-pollutant interactions arbitrarily considered important by the author. © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013.