Period doubling and chaos in a three-variable autocatalator

• DOI: 10.1021/j100376a014
• Publication Date: 2005-03-14T23:59:31Z
• Authors: Bo. Peng; Stephen K. Scott; Kenneth. Showalter
• Keywords: 0103 physical sciences; 01 natural sciences

= 1/50 and 1:2:10:10 at M/R = 1/300. It can be seen that an approximately 2-fold enhancement of the formation of butene and acetylene occurs upon dilution from M/R = 1/50 to 1/300. Conclusion The ultraviolet-region singlet photochemistry of gas-phase 2-butyne is known to result from the primary step of C-H bond breakage.2 All of the reported products are due to recombination of the 2-butyne fragments and, presumably, the formation of molecular hydrogen.2 The formation of acetylene in our experiments may be considered to arise from the elimination of molecular hydrogen from a triplet-excited 2-butyne monomer unit according to