Secondary organic aerosols (SOAs) affect air quality, climate, and human health. In the troposphere, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can undergo multi-generation chemistry, and their oxidation products can condense onto existing particles to form SOAs. Consequently, SOA formation involves numerous reactions and species, depending on environmental conditions.Our up-to-date understanding of SOA formation can be described by detailed VOC mechanisms (e.g., the Master Chemical Mechanism (MCM) and the Peroxy Radical Autoxidation Mechanism (PRAM)). However, due to computational limitations, chemistry-transport models (CTMs) are unable to directly employ detailed SOA mechanisms but use rather implicit mechanisms with only a few model species and ...