Chemical oscillations in non-isothermal chemical self-replication

Physical Chemistry Models for Chemical Research in the XXth and XXIst Centuries

“…An historical example of this is the Belousov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction, well-known to all chemists for yielding dramatic chiral spatial figures, but in fact, the rejection of the initial Belousov report by peer reviewers was made on the argument that oscillatory behavior should not be expected in homogeneous solutions, which was the media used in the original report . Nevertheless, a number of authors are now considering the bifurcations arising in an irreversible thermodynamic scenario for justifying the emergence of NESS’s, of oscillatory phenomena, and the self-assembly of supramolecular systems. − …”