Abstract
The deliberate design of chemical oscillators has significantly increased the number of known oscillating reactions and has facilitated the entry of chemistry into the new science of "chaos". This chapter shows how Henry Taube's research and personal contacts have influenced the design of oscillating chemical reactions. He and his co-workers have illuminated the oxidation reactions of oxychlorine species, especially the autocatalytic, substrate (iodide)-inhibited chlorite-iodide reaction, which oscillates in an open reactor. A model is presented that explains the complex dynamics that ensue when this reaction is initiated by the reaction between chlorine dioxide and iodide in a closed reactor. Coupling the starch-triiodide complex to a derivative of the chlorite-iodide oscillator has made it possible to verify experimentally the existence of Turing structures.