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 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | British Columbia C | 74 | -5 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Arizona State B | 74 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Jiping Fang | Illinois B | Kentucky | 86 | -5 |
| Thomas Watkins | South Carolina A | Clemson A | 86 | -5 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Yale A | 86 | -5 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | Melbourne 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 |
| Matthew Wozniak | Michigan C | Indiana A | 89 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Indiana B | 89 | 10 |
| Eames Weeks | Brown B | Tufts B | 89 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Iowa | 90 | 10 |
| Nathan Whittington | Tennessee B | Tusculum | 91 | -5 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU B | MSU A | 92 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Chicago 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 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Vanderbilt A | 92 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | Claremont Pitzer | 93 | 10 |
| Zaynab Guezzar | USF | Melbourne B | 93 | 10 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | Brandeis Orlando | 93 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | FIU | 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 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Lehigh B | 100 | 10 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Michigan D | 100 | 10 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina B | Virginia B | 100 | 10 |
| Misty Chen | Purdue B | Louisville A | 100 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brown C | 100 | 10 |
| Roman Bassett | UF A | UCF B | 100 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Texas A | 103 | 10 |
| Justin Qian | British Columbia A | British Columbia B | 106 | 10 |
| Ezra Siegartel | Vassar A | Rutgers C | 114 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Liberty A | 114 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | St. Thomas | 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 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Missouri B | 116 | -5 |
| Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson B | Liberty C | 116 | 10 |
| Faraz Foroughi | NC State | Roanoke | 116 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Aditya Koushik | Stanford C | Stanford B | 122 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCLA A | 122 | 10 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCLA C | 122 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | UF 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 |
| Tommy Donelon | Missouri B | WashU B | 122 | 10 |
| Donal Ryan | Truman State | WashU C | 122 | 10 |
| Kaiden Webb | Chicago C | Illinois A | 122 | 10 |
| Caleb West | Kentucky | Illinois B | 122 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Illinois C | 122 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Stanford A | 122 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Berkeley 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 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Tennessee B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Megan Wang | Brown A | Amherst A | 122 | 10 |
| Andrew Verdesca | Yale A | Dartmouth | 122 | 10 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | ERAU B | 122 | 10 |
| Niru Shakya | Melbourne A | FSU | 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 |
| 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 |