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Chemical and Biochemical Systems

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Synergetics

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Synergetics ((SSSYN,volume 1))

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Abstract

Basically, we may distinguish between two different kinds of chemical processes:

  1. 1)

    Several chemical reactants are put together at a certain instant, and we are then studying the processes going on. In customary thermodynamics, one usually compares only the reactants and the final products and observes in which direction a process goes. This is not the topic we want to treat in this book. We rather consider the following situation, which may serve as a model for biochemical reactants.

  2. 2)

    Several reactants are continuously fed into a reactor where new chemicals are continuously produced. The products are then removed in such a way that we have steady state conditions. These processes can be maintained only under conditions far from thermal equilibrium. A number of interesting questions arise which will have a bearing on theories of formation of structures in biological systems and on theories of evolution. The questions we want to focus our attention on are especially the following:

  3. 1)

    Under which conditions can we get certain products in large well-controlled concentrations?

  4. 2)

    Can chemical reactions produce spatial or temporal or spatio-temporal patterns?

To answer these questions we investigate the following problems:

  1. a)

    deterministic reaction equations without diffusion

  2. b)

    deterministic reaction equations with diffusion

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  1. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57/IV, D-7000, Stuttgart 80, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    Professor Dr. Dr. h. c. Hermann Haken

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Haken, H. (1983). Chemical and Biochemical Systems. In: Synergetics. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88338-5_9

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