In this study, we demonstrate that ascorbic acid (AA) exhibited extremely high activity on persulfate (PS) activation (AA/PS) to produce SO4[rad]− and [rad]OH for the degradation of various organic pollutants, including atrazine, pentachlorophenol, alachlor, tetracycline, and chloramphenicol. Taken atrazine as a model natural organic micropollutants, we surprisingly found that the degradation rate constant of atrazine during PS activation in presence of AA was about 29 times larger than that in the absence of AA. The underlying mechanism of pe...