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The influence of oscillations on product selectivity during the palladium-catalysed phenylacetylene oxidative carbonylation reaction

This paper reports an experimental study which achieves reproducible oscillations in oxidative carbonylation reactions, a task that only one other group worldwide has achieved (Gorodsky at Lomonosow Moscow State Academy of Fine Technology; contact: Dr Sergey Gorodsky; gorodsky@yandex.ru). The work demonstrates a reaction with nonlinear dynamics that is of relevance in organic synthesis, and showed for the first time that commercially valuable products could be obtained selectively under different operating conditions. This research was the foundation of a five year EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship awarded to Novakovic (Powering smart materials by oscillatory chemical reactions; EP/H003908/1; £700k).