Oscillatory reactions some exact results

In the last two decades there has emerged great interest in reactions, in which at least one of the concentrations is a periodic function of time. There are two possible application areas of these reactions they may form the chemical basis of periodical phenomena in biology, much as biological clocks and in chemical engineering it may happen that the yield may be enhanced when working under periodic instead of steady state conditions. 

Here we intend to give a very brief introduction to the wide area of oscillatory reactions. The interested reader should consult the collection of papers edited by Field and Burger (Field Burger, 1984). The review papers there have been written by the foremost experts in this field, who have already been cited so often here, and will continue to be so. The book also contains a scientiometric assay by Burger and Bujdoso, that may be interesting for an even larger audience. 

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