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In terms of the graph theory, b(H) is the weight for the directed graph whose roots belong to a given cycle. For a complex reaction having one cycle and no "buffer steps, we have P = 1 and no matching. 

Fig. 5. Graphs of linear mechanisms, (a) One-route mechanism (b) one-route mechanism with a "buffer step (c) two-route mechanism with a common intermediate (d) two-route mechanism with a "bridge connecting cycles (e) two-route mechanism with a common step.

If a one-route mechanism is supplemented by a "buffer step, the graph will have a "hanging node [Fig. 5(b)]. 

It is evident that, in the steady-state case, the "buffer step is in equilibrium and its rate is zero. 

Non-Hamiltonian graphs of composite mechanisms are widespread, e.g. the graphs of vinyl chloride synthesis and n-hexane conversion [Fig. 3(d) and (f) and Fig. 5(c) and (d)]. The simplest non-Hamiltonian graph is that of the two-step mechanism supplemented by a "buffer step yielding a non-reactive substance. For the mechanism... 

A mechanism of this class is also a one-route scheme for S02 oxidation over vanadium catalysts having a "buffer step [61]... 

Let us complicate mechanism (4). It is known that many gases can be adsorbed on the catalyst surface in several (at least two) forms, one of which is unreactive. This case is observed, for example, in CO adsorption over Pt. By analogy with ref. 105, let us complete mechanism (8) by a buffer step... 

Thus the mechanism formed by steps (l)-(4) can be called the simplest catalytic oscillator. [Detailed parametric analysis of model (35) was recently provided by Khibnik et al. [234]. The two-parametric plane (k2, k 4/k4) was divided into 23 regions which correspond to various types of phase portraits.] Its structure consists of the simplest catalytic trigger (8) and linear "buffer , step (4). The latter permits us to obtain in the three-dimensional phase space oscillations between two stable branches of the S-shaped kinetic characteristics z(q) for the adsorption mechanism (l)-(3). The reversible reaction (4) can be interpreted as a slow reversible poisoning (blocking) of... 

Let us apply her method to study kinetic models for several adsorption mechanisms having buffer steps [109, 236], For example, let us take the mechanism... 

All the above mechanisms can be called the simplest catalytic oscillators. In all these mechanisms self-oscillations of the reaction rate are realized due to the combination of the fast system of steps (adsorption mechanism) leading to the sharp change in the number of unoccupied surface sites and of the "slow reversible step ensuring self-oscillations of their concentration. If the parameters of the "buffer step are sufficiently small compared with those of the main mechanism, all these oscillations will be typically relaxa-tional. 

Table 11.2 Results of chemical equilibrium modelling of the contribution of ferrous iron phases to the proportion of iron (in %) extracted from an anoxic freshwater sediment from the Elbe River near Hamburg (Germany) by the first two acetate buffer steps of a modified Tessier sequential extraction scheme...

Another reason for the emergence of the oscillations in the scheme would be in preserving the assumption of the surface uniformity, the exis tence of a buffer step of dissociative adsorption of molecular oxygen... 

However, this scheme also needs a few additional assumptions on the pos sible existence of, for example, buffer steps to identify the conditions of the oscillation emergence these steps should decelerate involving of some intermediate species to the CO2 formation. 

Major and modified deoxynucleosides were isolated fi om the enzymatic hydrolysis of DNA by Kuo t a . (K37). The chromatographic system uses a two-buffer step gradient with a reversed-phase C-18 column. This method has good sensitivity, selectivity, precision, and accuracy for the determination of all six deoxynucleosides without the use of drastic hydrolysis conditions or difficult sample preparation procedures. In addition, Nazar al. (N3) and Salas and Sellinger (SI) have described liquid chromatographic methods for DNA and RNA hydrolysates. 

Oscillatory surface reaction models were first proposed in the second half of the 1970s and developed in two parallel strains. The buffer-step models originated with the work of Eigenberger (274) and models with coverage-dependent activation energies were first proposed by Belyaev et al. (154). 

Eigenberger (274) was the first to introduce a kinetic scheme that contained a buffer step and to discuss the stability and oscillatory behavior of this type of reaction mechanism. His model for the reaction 2A + B 2P(CO + 502 002) can be expressed as... 

Reaction (6) is the buffer step, which describes a slow, reversible adsorption of one reactant. With this model, relaxation type as well as relatively sinusoidal oscillations were predicted for certain parameter values. Eigenberger discusses the nature of several possible buffer steps and generalizes reaction (6) to... 

Other models, though not closely related to the original one proposed by Eigenberger, can nevertheless be thought of as buffer-step models. Takoudis etal. (279) discussed several kinetic schemes, one of which was analyzed in detail ... 

Additionally, some of the oxidation/reduction models developed so far can be considered buffer-step models. The most extensive theoretical treatment of such a model was performed by Aluko and Chang (273,280,281), who investigated under nonisothermal conditions the model first proposed by Sales et al. (272). The original isothermal model proposed nominally for the CO/O2 system is able to predict oscillations and can be considered a surface reaction model. The model, described in the general terms of Chang and Aluko, consists of... 

The general feasibility of an oscillation model, such as that analyzed by Chang and Aluko, was discussed earlier by Riekert (282) in thermodynamic terms. He argued that oscillations could emerge if the existence of both metal and oxide was thermodynamically permitted during oscillatory conditions, but these species were kinetically unstable. However, no kinetic analysis was performed in this study. Figure 6a illustrates the general scheme for buffer-step models. 

Fig. 6. General representations of heterogeneous oscillatory mechanisms, (a) Buffer-step model (b) coverage-dependent activation energy (c) empty-site model (d) Sales-TUrner-Maple model (e) Pt(lOO) phase transition model (f) Dagonnier model (g) blocking/ reactivation model (h) bulk-phase transition model.

There are some oscillatory surface reaction models that contain neither buffer steps nor coverage-dependent activation energies. The first model able to predict oscillatory behavior without these mechanisms was introduced by Takoudis et al. (275,279) and later was analyzed in great detail by McKarnin et al. (286). The model consists of the following three steps, the third of which is strongly autocatalytic ... 

Two models that utilize gas-phase mass balances were proposed by Sheintuch (292). The first, a model for oxidation reactions, was related to an Eigenberger-type buffer-step model. His kinetic scheme differs, however, from the typical buffer scheme ... 

Although this model is able to predict oscillatory behavior, it has one major flaw, because a crucial step in the model is the adsorption of N2 on Pt to yield adsorbed N atoms on the Pt surface. This reaction step is not supported by an existent experimental evidence. This crucial step can also be interpreted as a buffer step as discussed in the general schemes in Section IV,A, and thus omission of this step would probably destroy the oscillatory behavior of the model predictions. 

The structure of the model equations by TUrner et al. (272) is similar to the buffer-step models discussed earlier, particularly the model analyzed in general form by Chang and Aluko [Eqs. (12)-16)]. The resultant numerical... 

The last step is a buffer step, as discussed in the Eigenberger model. In addition, however, the rate of oxygen adsorption is assumed to be dependent on the concentration of subsurface oxygen ... 

Place donor plate into the acceptor plate making sure that the underside of the membrane is in contact with the buffer. Steps three to five should be completed quickly, within 10 minutes. 

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