Oscillating reactions

Chemical mechanisms that oscillate instead of relaxing to equilibrium: the Brusselator limit cycle, Lotka’s autocatalytic scheme with its neutral orbits, and the Oregonator model of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction.

Prigogine and Lefever’s Brusselator limit cycle

Prigogine and Lefever's Brusselator limit cycle

Lotka’s autocatalytic oscillator and its neutral orbits

Lotka's autocatalytic oscillator and its neutral orbits

The Oregonator: oscillations of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction

The Oregonator: oscillations of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction