Reactions oscillating oxidation

The Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction is a typical oscillating chemical reaction. Spiral structures form periodically, disappear and reappear as the result of an autocatalytic reaction, the oxidation of Ce3+ and Mn2+ by bromate (lessen, 1978). 

Competition between Homolytic and Heterolytic Catalytic Decompositions of Hydroperoxides Reactions of Transition Metals with Free Radicals Reactions of Transition Metal Ions with Dioxygen Catalytic Oxidation of Ketones Cobalt Bromide Catalysis Oscillating Oxidation Reactions... 

Numerous versions of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky system differ by chemical compounds used. The typical reaction involves oxidation of some organic compound by bromate ion (BrOj ) occurring in acid medium with metal catalyst (Ce3+, Mn2+, as well as complexes of Fe2+, Ru2+). As an example, a particular reaction [4] could be mentioned, where an organic reductor is malonic acid CH2(COOH)2 and Ce3+ ions serve as a catalyst. In this reaction a solution changes periodically its colour due to oscillations in Ce3+ concentration. Generally speaking, the reaction consists of two stages. At the first one metal is oxidized... 

Fig. 24. Potentiodynamic polarization curve of Cu in 0.1 M KOH with anodic and cathodic current peaks and the related reactions of oxide formation or reduction dissolution of cations and the indication of the stability ranges of the CU2O and duplex oxide layer, z ph at CII indicates oscillating photocurrent due to a chopped light beam [86],...

In a review article on oscillatory reactions (294), Sheintuch discusses the effect of introducing a heat balance for the catalyst rather than a mass balance for the reactor into the differential equation system for a surface reaction with oxidation/reduction cycles. Although the coverage equations alone can yield oscillatory behavior, as was the case for the models discussed in the previous section, Sheintuch s model is discussed in this section because introduction of the heat balance adds qualitatively new features. In this extended system complex, multiple peak behavior and quasiperiodicity was observed as shown in Fig. 8. Sheintuch also investigated the interaction of two oscillators. This work, however, will be treated in detail in Section V, were synchronization and chaos are discussed. 

De Kepper, et al. (1981-1) designed a homogeneous oscillating reaction by coupling the autocatalytic oxidation of arsenite by I03 to the autocatalytic C102 -I03- reaction in a CSTR. Both I2 and I concentrations oscillate with the concentration of the latter changing by a factor of > 105 during each cycle. This arsenite-iodate-chlorite system was obtained in two separate reactions. The oxidation of arsenite by iodate, a reaction autocatalytic in iodide is ... 

Despite the importance of the chlorite-iodide systems in the development of nonlinear chemical dynamics in the 1980s, the Belousov-Zhabotinsky(BZ) reaction remains as the most intensively studied nonlinear chemical system, and one displaying a surprising variety of behavior. Oscillations here were discovered by Belousov (1951) but largely unnoticed until the works of Zhabotinsky (1964). Extensive description of the reaction and its behavior can be found in Tyson (1985), Murray (1993), Scott (1991), or Epstein and Pojman (1998). There are several versions of the reaction, but the most common involves the oxidation of malonic acid by bromate ions BrOj in acid medium and catalyzed by cerium, which during the reaction oscillates between the Ce3+ and the Ce4+ state. Another possibility is to use as catalyst iron (Fe2+ and Fe3+). The essentials of the mechanisms were elucidated by Field et al. (1972), and lead to the three-species model known as the Oregonator (Field and Noyes, 1974). In this... 

Since the main reactants, bromate and malonic acid, are in surplus, inhibition and negative feedback in the BZ reaction are quite different from that in the previous example of thermokinetic oscillations. Inhibition is provided in part by a direct decomposition of HBr02 (analogous to heat removal in the previous example) but mainly by a chain of reactions of oxidized ion catalyst with brominated malonic acid (BrMA), summarized as... 

The Ce(IV)/Ce(III) (Br /BrOj ) system is one of several redox systems in which oscillating oxidation-reduction cycles can be observed. This particular system, with organic substrates like malonic acid (among others), is known as the Belousov-Zhabotinsky oscillator. This system has been studied for more than 15 years and has been the subject of several reviews and a number of symposia. The Ce--Br oscillating reaction system has been described in terms of a seven-step rate process (all reversible reactions), the Field-Koros-Noyes (FKN) mechanism (Field et al. 1972). 

The best known oscillating reaction is without a doubt the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction, the oxidation of an organic substrate, typically malonic acid, CH2(C00H)2, by bromate, Br03, in an acidic medium in the presence of a metalion catalyst. It was discovered by Belousov in the early 1950s [32], and modified by Zhabotinsky [497]. The mechanism of the BZ reaction was elucidated by Field, Koros, and Noyes in 1972 [326, 130, 325] and reduced to five essential steps by Field and Noyes [131]. This model is called the Oregonator and in the version presented by Tyson and Fife [442] it is given by... 

Experimental observations clearly indicate that rate of several oxidation reactions oscillate continuously and never attain a steady state [15]. Following are some of the examples of such reactions ... 

Slinko, M.M., Ukharskii, A.A., and Jaeger, N.I., Global and non-local coupling in oscillating heterogeneous catalytic reactions the oxidation of CO on zeolite-supported palladium, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 3, 1015-1021, 2001. 

In this paper we give a synopsis of the method as it is presently developed. It is exemplified by our two latest discoveries the oscillating oxidation reactions of sulfide and oxalic acid by persulfate. 

A catalyst may play an active role in a different sense. There are interesting temporal oscillations in the rate of the Pt-catalyzed oxidation of CO. Ertl and coworkers have related the effect to back-and-forth transitions between Pt surface structures [220] (note Fig. XVI-8). See also Ref. 221 and citations therein. More recently Ertl and co-workers have produced spiral as well as plane waves of surface reconstruction in this system [222] as well as reconstruction waves on the Pt tip of a field emission microscope as the reaction of H2 with O2 to form water occurred [223]. Theoretical simulations of these types of effects have been reviewed [224]. 

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