文摘
While various reactions in the inorganic subset of the oscillatory Briggs-Rauscher (BR) reaction were clarifiedin the recent years, the organic subset of the present mechanisms contains only one process: the iodinationof malonic acid. Further organic reactions can play a role, however, if malonic (MA) and iodomalonic (IMA)acids can be oxidized in the BR reaction. As CO2 and CO should be products if such oxidations can takeplace, the main aim of this work was to learn whether these gases are produced in a significant amount in aBR system. In our BR experiments, a rather intense evolution of both gases was observed with an oscillatoryand a nonoscillatory component. With the initial conditions applied here, one from every 6 carbon atoms wasoxidized either to CO2 or to CO in the course of the BR reaction. The amount of CO2 was about 4 timeshigher than that of CO. Experiments are in progress to disclose the reactions which generate the measuredgases and their role in the mechanism of the BR reaction.