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. Higher alkanes are a major class of intermediate-volatility organic compounds (IVOCs), which have been proposed to be important precursors ofsecondary organic aerosols (SOA) in the atmosphere. Accurate estimation of SOA from higher alkanes and their oxidation processes in the atmosphereis limited, partially due to the difficulty of their measurement. High-time-resolution (10  s ) measurements of higher alkanes were performedusing NO+ chemical ionization in proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry ( NO+ PTR-ToF-MS) at an urbansite in Guangzhou in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) and at a rural site in the North China Plain (NCP). High concentrations were observed in bothenvironments, with significant diurnal variations. At both sites, SOA production from higher alkanes is estimated from their photochemical lossesand SOA yields. Higher alkanes account for significant fractions of SOA formation at the two sites, with average contributions of7.0 %  ±  8.0 % in Guangzhou and 9.4 %  ±  9.1 % in NCP, which are comparable to or even higher than both single-ring aromaticsand naphthalenes. The significant contributions of higher alkanes to SOA formation suggests that they should be explicitly included in currentmodels for SOA formation. Our work also highlights the importance of NO+ PTR-ToF-MS in measuring higher alkanes and quantifying theircontributions to SOA formation.

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Measurements of higher alkanes using NO&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;+&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; chemical ionization in PTR-ToF-MS: important contributions of higher alkanes to secondary organic aerosols in China