%ADitto, Jenna%AHe, Megan%AHass-Mitchell, Tori%AMoussa, Samar%AHayden, Katherine%ALi, Shao-Meng%ALiggio, John%ALeithead, Amy%ALee, Patrick%AWheeler, Michael%AWentzell, Jeremy%AGentner, Drew%Anull Ed.%BJournal Name: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics; Journal Volume: 21; Journal Issue: 1 %D2021%I %JJournal Name: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics; Journal Volume: 21; Journal Issue: 1 %K %MOSTI ID: 10255419 %PMedium: X %TAtmospheric evolution of emissions from a boreal forest fire: the formation of highly functionalized oxygen-, nitrogen-, and sulfur-containing organic compounds %XAbstract. Forest fires are major contributors of reactive gas- and particle-phaseorganic compounds to the atmosphere. We used offline high-resolution tandemmass spectrometry to perform a molecular-level speciation of gas- andparticle-phase compounds sampled via aircraft from an evolving boreal forestfire smoke plume in Saskatchewan, Canada. We observed diversemultifunctional compounds containing oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur (CHONS),whose structures, formation, and impacts are understudied. Thedilution-corrected absolute ion abundance of particle-phase CHONS compoundsincreased with plume age by a factor of 6.4 over the first 4 h ofdownwind transport, and their relative contribution to the observedfunctionalized organic aerosol (OA) mixture increased from 19 % to 40 %.The dilution-corrected absolute ion abundance of particle-phase compoundswith sulfide functional groups increased by a factor of 13 with plume age,and their relative contribution to observed OA increased from 4 % to40 %. Sulfides were present in up to 75 % of CHONS compounds and theincreases in sulfides were accompanied by increases in ring-bound nitrogen;both increased together with CHONS prevalence. A complex mixture ofintermediate- and semi-volatile gas-phase organic sulfur species wasobserved in emissions from the fire and depleted downwind, representingpotential precursors to particle-phase CHONS compounds. These resultsdemonstrate CHONS formation from nitrogen- and oxygen-containing biomass burningemissions in the presence of reduced sulfur species. In addition, theyhighlight chemical pathways that may also be relevant in situations withelevated emissions of nitrogen- and sulfur-containing organic compounds fromresidential biomass burning and fossil fuel use (e.g., coal), respectively. %0Journal Article