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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Photoreduction of mercuric bromides in polar ice.

Javier Carmona-García, Alfonso Saiz-Lopez, Anoop S Mahajan, Feiyue Wang, Ana Borrego-Sánchez, A Ulises Acuña, Carlos A Cuevas, Juan Z Dávalos, Aryeh Feinberg, Andrea Spolaor and 3 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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13 authors.

Javier Carmona-GarcíaInstitut de Ciència Molecular, Universitat de València, València 46980, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-5359-7240
Alfonso Saiz-LopezDepartment of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate, Institute of Physical Chemistry Blas Cabrera, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid 28006, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-0060-1581
Anoop S MahajanCentre for Climate Change Research, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Pune 411008, India.ORCID 0000-0002-2909-5432
Feiyue WangCenter for Earth Observation Science and Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5297-0859
Ana Borrego-SánchezInstitut de Ciència Molecular, Universitat de València, València 46980, Spain.
A Ulises AcuñaDepartment of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate, Institute of Physical Chemistry Blas Cabrera, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid 28006, Spain.
Carlos A CuevasDepartment of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate, Institute of Physical Chemistry Blas Cabrera, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid 28006, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-9251-5460
Juan Z DávalosDepartment of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate, Institute of Physical Chemistry Blas Cabrera, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid 28006, Spain.
Aryeh FeinbergDepartment of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate, Institute of Physical Chemistry Blas Cabrera, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid 28006, Spain.
Andrea SpolaorInstitute of Polar Sciences, National Research Council of Italy, Venice-Mestre 30172, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8635-9193
Manuel F Ruiz-LópezLaboratoire de Physique et Chimie Théoriques, UMR CNRS 7019, University of Lorraine, Boîte Postale 70239, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy 54506, France.ORCID 0000-0002-2784-6319
Joseph S FranciscoDepartment of Earth and Environment Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6243.ORCID 0000-0002-5461-1486
Daniel Roca-SanjuánInstitut de Ciència Molecular, Universitat de València, València 46980, Spain.

Funding

European Regional Development Fund PID2021-127199NB-I00Generalitat Valenciana (GVA) APOSTD/2022/027
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the polar regions, which are vulnerable receptors of mercury pollution, atmospheric mercury depletion events (AMDEs) efficiently convert elemental mercury (Hg(0)) into oxidized mercury (Hg(II)) via bromine oxidation. Hg(II) subsequently deposits onto snow and sea ice. While field observations have shown that a large percentage of deposited mercury is re-emitted from the ice to the atmosphere by a photoinduced process, the fundamental photochemistry that drives the re-emission process remains unknown. Here, using multiconfigurational quantum chemistry, we find that the photoreduction of HgBr

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biogeochemical cycleexcited statesmercurymulticonfigurational quantum chemistryphotochemistry

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PMID40030012
PMCPMC11912456

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