Virtual Issue in Atmospheric Chemistry Research

Editorial of Virtual Special Issue on Progress in Medicinal Chemistry

Drug target identification is a key step in the development of effective therapeutic agents. In this issue, we present the current status of some validated and potential targets in drug discovery for developing therapeutic agents for the treatment of cancer, inflammation, cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, HIV, and influenza A virus. I am indebted to my colleagues for their co...

Atmospheric chemistry.

T he field of atmospheric chemistry is very broad, both in the problems addressed and in the approaches taken. Thus, it includes laboratory and theoretical studies, field measurements, and modeling, and addresses chemistry from the lower to the upper atmosphere, in remote and polluted regions, from marine to continental areas, and both outdoors and indoors. Given this complexity, it is impossib...

Atmospheric chemistry in volcanic plumes.

Recent field observations have shown that the atmospheric plumes of quiescently degassing volcanoes are chemically very active, pointing to the role of chemical cycles involving halogen species and heterogeneous reactions on aerosol particles that have previously been unexplored for this type of volcanic plumes. Key features of these measurements can be reproduced by numerical models such as th...

Prebiotic chemistry themed issue

Atmospheric chemistry‐climate feedbacks

[1] We extend the theory of climate feedbacks to include atmospheric chemistry. A change in temperature caused by a radiative forcing will include, in general, a contribution from the chemical change that is fed back into the climate system; likewise, the change in atmospheric burdens caused by a chemical forcing will include a contribution from the associated climate change that is fed back in...