A Synthetic Approach to Exotic Kinetics (With Examples)

Abstract

The approach to be outlined in the following is “classical” in the sense that only concentrations of individual substances are considered, rather than potentials of chemical reactions; furthermore, use is made of the “nonexplicit” convention for catalyzed reactions, so that the mass action law is violated in the equations; finally, the existence of “pool” substances, i.e. non-exhaustible sources, is presupposed. Hence neither the elegant tools of the recent potential-theoretic “network” approach of Oster et al. (1973), nor the recent methods of algebraic redundance-reduction in closed mass-action systems and their generalizations (cf. Feinberg, 1972; Horn & Jackson, 1972; and Horn, 1973) can be exploited. However, the reader should be offered sufficient methods in order to be able to invent new, non-trivial exotic chemical circuits for himself.