Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun. 1992, 57, 2235-2240
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19922235

A Novel Approach to the Study of Briggs-Rauscher Reaction

Punchayil Velayudhan Nair Lalitha and Renganathan Ramaswamy

Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras-600 036, India

Abstract

The Briggs-Rauscher reaction with substrates containing acidic hydrogen such as malonic acid, acetonyl acetone has been studied. The employment of mixed media involving an organic solvent and water enabled the study of water-insoluble substrates. The present communication reports the oscillatory behaviour of malonic acid in the iodate system in different mixed media (5 vol.% of the organic solvent) as well as the oscillatory behaviour of seven substrates in acetonitrile-water mixed medium of which two are new substrates hitherto unreported in any of the oscillatory systems.