Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions www.atmos-meas-tech-discuss.net 1867-8610 2 3 2009 10.5194/amtd-2-1351-2009 http://www.atmos-meas-tech-discuss.net/2/1351/2009/ http://www.atmos-meas-tech-discuss.net/2/1351/2009/amtd-2-1351-2009.html http://www.atmos-meas-tech-discuss.net/2/1351/2009/amtd-2-1351-2009.pdf 1351 1382 2009-06-03 A laboratory flow reactor with gas particle separation and on-line MS/MS for product identification in atmospherically important reactions J. F. Bennett F. Collin D. R. Hastie hastie@yorku.ca Department of Chemistry and Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada now at: Université Paris Descartes – CNRS UMR 8601, Paris, France A system to study the gas and particle phase products from gas phase hydrocarbon oxidation is described. 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