SYSTEMATIC DESIGN OF CHEMICAL OSCILLATORS .64. DESIGN OF PH-REGULATED OSCILLATORS
SYSTEMATIC DESIGN OF CHEMICAL OSCILLATORS .64. DESIGN OF PH-REGULATED OSCILLATORS
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DOI:
10.1021/ar00176a004
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发表时间:
1990-08-01
影响因子:
18.3
通讯作者:
EPSTEIN, IR
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作者:
RABAI, G;ORBAN, M;EPSTEIN, IR
The hydrogen ion concentration is one of the most important and most easily measured quantities in nearly all reactions in aqueous solution, from inorganic systems to complex processes in living organisms. One might expect then that efforts to measure and understand pH changes would have played a major role in the study of oscillatory chemical reactions, nearly all of which occur in aqueous solution. Surprisingly, the role of H+ as a major species in chemical oscillators has been largely ignored until quiterecently. In this Account, we discuss a new family of oscillating reactions consisting of systems that display large-am-plitude (several pH units) pH oscillations in unbuffered solution, but only monotonic behavior in the presence of acid-base buffers. Such systems can be designed using procedures based on simple mathematical models. They bear stronganalogies to both thermokinetic and neural oscillators.In the early stages of the experimental investigation of chemical oscillations, systems were monitored either spectrophotometrically or potentiometrically, with re-dox or halogen ion specific electrodes. The redox po-tential measurements that dominated these studies are considerably less informative than the pH, since the former give a mixed potential, while the latter is species specific. Few publications before 1985 mention pH changes in an oscillatory reaction. Several extrema in [H+] as a function of time were reported in a study of the thermal decomposition of sodium dithionite in aqueous solution. 3 Despite the acidic media of the Bray-Liebhafsky4 (H2O2-IO3",[H+]= 0.01-0.1 M) and the Belousov-Zhabotinskii5 (BZ: brómate oxidationof an organic reductant,[H+]= 0.1-1 M) reactions, which create unfavorable conditions for pH measurement, small-amplitude periodic changes in pH have been found6, 7 in these well-known oscillatory systems. The variation of pH in such systems is not intimately involved in the oscillatory phenomenon, but rather