This class of reactions produces a family of toxic compounds that have two benzene rings connected by two oxygen atoms at the para positions, the dioxin family. The Zeldovich mechanism explains the formation of a type of nitrogen-containing molecule during these reactions. Preventing the backflow of one of these reactions in stacks can be accomplished with sweep gas. Gaseous products of these reactions react with nitrogen oxides and light to generate ozone. In these reactions, gases pass over platinum and rhodium to limit the release of VOCs. Those catalytic converters following these reactions reduce the formation of photochemical smog in cities. For 10 points, name these reactions in which a chemical reacts with an oxidant like oxygen to release heat and light. ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 75% | 109.25 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 111.50 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 108.67 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.86 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 106.40 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.40 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 101.50 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 30% | 105.10 |
| North | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 109.80 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 105.00 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 75% | 116.67 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 38% | 107.57 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 25% | 99.57 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 87.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allan Lee | Stanford B | Stanford C | 37 | -5 |
| Tiffany Zhou | OSU C | Pitt A | 41 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU A | Missouri A | 41 | 10 |
| Harish Lolla | Illinois C | Michigan A | 41 | -5 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | North Carolina B | 41 | 10 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Harvard | 41 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | OSU B | CWRU A | 43 | 10 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois A | Chicago C | 49 | -5 |
| Aaryan Sumesh | Berkeley D | Berkeley C | 57 | -5 |
| George Matsumura | Washington B | Washington A | 62 | -5 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley B | 71 | 10 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton | Minnesota A | 71 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech D | 71 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Arizona State B | 74 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | British Columbia C | 74 | -5 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Arizona State A | 76 | -5 |
| Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech B | Bruin A | 80 | -5 |
| Keelin Baker | Sewanee A | Alabama A | 80 | -5 |
| Tate Osborne | Auburn A | Vanderbilt B | 82 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Alberta B | 83 | -5 |
| Richard Lin | Amherst A | Brown A | 84 | -5 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Simon Fraser | 84 | -5 |
| Aarav Kakad | UCLA C | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 86 | -5 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | Melbourne A | 86 | -5 |
| Thomas Watkins | South Carolina A | Clemson A | 86 | -5 |
| Jiping Fang | Illinois B | Kentucky | 86 | -5 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Yale A | 86 | -5 |
| Quinn Vaughen | RIT B | Cornell-DII | 87 | 10 |
| Will Hollister | Lehigh A | Rutgers B | 87 | 10 |
| Mitchell Hacket | UCO | Texas B | 87 | -5 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley A | 88 | -5 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Indiana B | 89 | 10 |
| Matthew Wozniak | Michigan C | Indiana A | 89 | 10 |
| Eames Weeks | Brown B | Tufts B | 89 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Iowa | 90 | 10 |
| Nathan Whittington | Tennessee B | Tusculum | 91 | -5 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Chicago A | 92 | 10 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU B | MSU A | 92 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Vanderbilt A | 92 | 10 |
| Felix Garrett Johnston | Huntsville A | UAB A | 92 | 10 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | Tennessee A | 92 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Columbia C | 92 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | Claremont Pitzer | 93 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | FIU | 93 | 10 |
| Zaynab Guezzar | USF | Melbourne B | 93 | 10 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | Brandeis Orlando | 93 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Notre Dame C | 97 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell-UG | Williams | 97 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Tufts A | 98 | -5 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 100 | 10 |
| Roman Bassett | UF A | UCF B | 100 | 10 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Michigan D | 100 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Lehigh B | 100 | 10 |
| Misty Chen | Purdue B | Louisville A | 100 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brown C | 100 | 10 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina B | Virginia B | 100 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Texas A | 103 | 10 |
| Justin Qian | British Columbia A | British Columbia B | 106 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | St. Thomas | 114 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Liberty A | 114 | 10 |
| Ezra Siegartel | Vassar A | Rutgers C | 114 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | BC A | 114 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | UCLA D | 116 | 10 |
| Advai Srinivasan | UCI | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 116 | 10 |
| Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson B | Liberty C | 116 | 10 |
| Faraz Foroughi | NC State | Roanoke | 116 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Missouri B | 116 | -5 |
| Fahian Joy | Amherst B | Bowdoin B | 116 | 10 |
| Ethan Burks | Huntsville B | Alabama B | 116 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | UIC | 118 | 10 |
| Sam Kung | North Carolina C | Virginia Tech B | 119 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Columbia B | 119 | 10 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin | Nebraska | 120 | 10 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | Rose State | 120 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU D | William Woods | 121 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Stanford A | 122 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Berkeley D | 122 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCLA A | 122 | 10 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCLA C | 122 | 10 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | ERAU B | 122 | 10 |
| Niru Shakya | Melbourne A | FSU | 122 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | UF B | 122 | 10 |
| Kaiden Webb | Chicago C | Illinois A | 122 | 10 |
| Ben Simmons | Macalester A | Macalester B | 122 | 0 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Macalester A | 122 | 10 |
| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | Minnesota B | 122 | 10 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | Pitt B | 122 | 10 |
| Jacob Evans | MSU B | Kenyon A | 122 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | OSU D | 122 | 10 |
| Jason Beardsley | Pitt C | Kenyon B | 122 | 10 |
| Hayden Owen | Clemson A | South Carolina A | 122 | 10 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Liberty B | 122 | 10 |
| Tommy Donelon | Missouri B | WashU B | 122 | 10 |
| Donal Ryan | Truman State | WashU C | 122 | 10 |
| Caleb West | Kentucky | Illinois B | 122 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Illinois C | 122 | 10 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | BC B | 122 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Brandeis Clemenceau | 122 | 10 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 122 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Auburn B | 122 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech B | 122 | 0 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Sewanee A | 122 | 10 |
| Aditya Koushik | Stanford C | Stanford B | 122 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Tennessee B | 122 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown A | Amherst A | 122 | 10 |
| Andrew Verdesca | Yale A | Dartmouth | 122 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | British Columbia C | Alberta | 122 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia D | 122 | 0 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | Washington B | 122 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | McGill D | 122 | 10 |
| Stefan Stealey-Euchner | Arizona State A | Northwestern A | 122 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | UTD B | 122 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | UCO | 122 | 0 |