Remarks on related literature

Some of the recent papers that have not been adequately covered here, although their reading is highly recommended, will be mentioned briefly. To orient the reader, we should like to make some comments on these works in the order of their publication date. 

It was the paper by Wei (1962) and later the papers by Aris (1965, 1968) that had perhaps the greatest influence on the development of today s formal reaction kinetics. 

Gavalas (1968) was an early pioneer in the treatment of the deterministic models of chemical reaction kinetics. His book deals with homogeneous systems and systems with diffusion as well. Basing himself upon recent results in nonlinear functional analysis he treats such fundamental questions as stoichiometry, existence and uniqueness of solutions and the number and stability of equilibrium states. Up to that time this treatise might be considered the best (although brief and concise) summary of the topic. 

The finely written manuscript by Horn (1973e) is an introductory textbook to the Feinberg-Horn-Jackson theory. Certainly more will be (or, has been) included in the lecture notes by Feinberg (in preparation). 

Vol pert et al (1974) investigate the co-limit sets and determine the Lyapunov exponent for large classes of reactions. 

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