Abstract
The recently discovered chlorine(III) (chlorite-based) oscillators show a wide range of dynamical phenomena in “batch” and “flow.” In addition to oscillations, these systems give rise to chaos, birhythmicity, spatial inhomogeneity, and other unusual effects [1]. To uncover the chemical origins of these phenomena, we construct multi-step mechanisms, and test them out by modeling the system’s observed behavior with them. However, the validity of a mechanism may not be judged fairly, if insufficient rate data exist for elementary steps in the mechanism.