Comment on 'Enhancement in the production of nucleating clusters due to dimethylamine and large uncertainties in the thermochemistry of amine-enhanced nucleation' by Nadykto et al., Chem. Phys. Lett., 609, 42-49 (2014)

TL;DR

This paper critiques and clarifies previous research on amine-enhanced nucleation, correcting misrepresentations, expanding analysis, and comparing with recent experimental data to improve understanding of cluster formation processes.

Contribution

It provides a detailed critique, reanalysis of data, and comparison with experiments to refine conclusions on amine-enhanced nucleation.

Findings

Corrects misrepresentations of earlier work

Expands analysis of density functional calculations

Compares simulations with recent experimental results

Abstract

We comment on a study by Nadykto et al. recently published in this journal. Earlier work from our group has been misrepresented in this study, and we feel that the claims made need to be amended. Also the analysis of Nadykto et al. concerning the implications of their own density functional calculations is incomplete. We present cluster formation simulations allowing more conclusions to be drawn from their data, and also compare them to recent experimental results not cited in their work.