Elementary Reaction Analysis on Sodium-Water Chemical Reaction Field

Influence of water on elementary reaction steps in electrocatalysis.

We studied simple reaction pathways of molecules interacting with Pt(111) in the presence of water and ions using density functional theory within the generalized gradient approximation. We particularly focus on the dissociation of H2 and O2 on Pt(111) which represent important reaction steps in the hydrogen evolution/ oxidation reaction and the oxygen reduction reaction, respectively. Because ...

Notes on Chemical Reaction Networks

These notes are shamelessly cribbed from the extremely helpful online notes [2]. Even most of the notation is the same. I wrote them because, like Goethe’s Frenchman, I wanted to translate Gunawardena’s notes into my own language. I also benefitted from conversations with Moe Hirsch and Gheorghe Craciun and from lectures by Gheorghe Craciun and David Anderson. 1. Notation. The positive real num...

Structural Bifurcation Analysis in Chemical Reaction Networks

In living cells, chemical reactions form a complex network. Complicated dynamics arising from such networks are the origins of biological functions. We propose a novel mathematical method to analyze bifurcation behaviors of a reaction system from the network structure alone. The whole network is decomposed into subnetworks based on “buffering structures”. For each subnetwork, the bifurcation co...

Studies on the reaction between sodium hypochlorite and proteins; physico-chemical study of the course of the reaction.

Note on the Sodium Nitro-prusside Reaction

LEGAL first showed that Weyl's reaction for creatinin was also given by acetone. The reaction consists in the addition of a few drops of a 5 0/0 solution of sodium nitro-prusside, followed by 1 0/0 sodium hydrate. A red colour is produced both with acetone and creatinin solutions. Le Nobel' elaborated the test by showing in the case of acetone that acidifyinog with acetic acid changed the red t...