São relatadas, pela primeira vez, a observação de oscilações periódicas, em reator agitado de fluxo contínuo (CSTR), para o sistema bromato-ácido oxálico-Ce(IV)-acetona-ácido sulfúrico. Identificou-se que a reação entre Ce(IV) e a acetona, até então não descrita na literatura e que ocorre antes dos reagentes serem adicionados ao reator, é um fator decisivo para o aparecimento de oscilações regulares.Periodic oscillations were observed for the first time, in a CSTR, in the system bromate-oxalic acid-Ce(IV)-acetone-sulfuric acid, in a CSTR. A reaction between Ce(IV) and acetone, until now not described in the literature and occurring before the addition of the reagents to the reactor, was identified as a decisive factor for the appearing of the regular oscillations.
Recebido em 23/1/06; aceito em 3/7/06; publicado na web em 7/2/07Simulations have been carried out on the bromate -oxalic acid -Ce(IV) -acetone oscillating reaction, under flow conditions, using Field and Boyd's model (J. Phys. Chem. 1985, 89, 3707). Many different complex dynamic behaviors were found, including simple periodic oscillations, complex periodic oscillations, quasiperiodicity and chaos. Some of these complex oscillations can be understood as belonging to a Farey sequence. The many different behaviors were systematized in a phase diagram which shows that some regions of complex patterns were nested with one inside the other. The existence of almost all known dynamic behavior for this system allows the suggestion that it can be used as a model for some very complex phenomena that occur in biological systems.
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