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■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 87.00 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 111.50 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 108.67 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.86 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 106.40 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.40 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 101.50 |
| California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 75% | 109.25 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 109.80 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 105.00 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 75% | 116.67 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 38% | 107.57 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 25% | 99.57 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 30% | 105.10 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allan Lee | Stanford B | Stanford C | 37 | -5 |
| Tiffany Zhou | OSU C | Pitt A | 41 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | North Carolina B | 41 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU A | Missouri A | 41 | 10 |
| Harish Lolla | Illinois C | Michigan A | 41 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Will Hollister | Lehigh A | Rutgers B | 87 | 10 |
| Mitchell Hacket | UCO | Texas B | 87 | -5 |
| Quinn Vaughen | RIT B | Cornell-DII | 87 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | Tennessee A | 92 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Columbia C | 92 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Chicago A | 92 | 10 |
| Felix Garrett Johnston | Huntsville A | UAB A | 92 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Vanderbilt A | 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 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina B | Virginia B | 100 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Lehigh B | 100 | 10 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Michigan D | 100 | 10 |
| Misty Chen | Purdue B | Louisville A | 100 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brown C | 100 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Texas A | 103 | 10 |
| Justin Qian | British Columbia A | British Columbia B | 106 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Liberty A | 114 | 10 |
| Ezra Siegartel | Vassar A | Rutgers C | 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 |
| 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 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Berkeley D | 122 | 10 |
| Aditya Koushik | Stanford C | Stanford B | 122 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Stanford A | 122 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCLA A | 122 | 10 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCLA C | 122 | 10 |
| Niru Shakya | Melbourne A | FSU | 122 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | UF B | 122 | 10 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | ERAU B | 122 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | OSU D | 122 | 10 |
| Jason Beardsley | Pitt C | Kenyon B | 122 | 10 |
| Jacob Evans | MSU B | Kenyon A | 122 | 10 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | Pitt B | 122 | 10 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Liberty B | 122 | 10 |
| Hayden Owen | Clemson A | South Carolina A | 122 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Tennessee B | 122 | 10 |
| Tommy Donelon | Missouri B | WashU B | 122 | 10 |
| Donal Ryan | Truman State | WashU C | 122 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Illinois C | 122 | 10 |
| Kaiden Webb | Chicago C | Illinois A | 122 | 10 |
| Caleb West | Kentucky | Illinois 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 |
| 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 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | UCO | 122 | 0 |
| 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 |
| 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 |