Nonlinear kinetics and new approaches to complex reaction mechanisms

This paper reviews recent developments in the field of nonlinear chemical k inetics. Five topics are dealt with: (a) new approaches to complex reaction mechanisms, stoichiometric network analysis, classification of chemical os cillators and formulation of their mechanisms by deduction from experiments , and correlation metric construction of reaction pathways from measurement s; (b) thermodynamic and stochastic theory of nonequilibrium processes, the eikonal approximation, the evaluation of stochastic potentials, experiment al tests of the thermodynamic and stochastic theory of relative stability, and fluctuation-dissipation relations in nonequilibrium chemical systems; ( c) chemical kinetics and cellular automata and lattice gas automata; (d) th eoretical approaches and experimental studies of stochastic resonance in ch emical kinetics; and (e) rate processes in disordered systems, stochastic L iouville equations, stretched exponential relaxation in disordered systems, and universality classes for rate processes in systems with static or dyna mic disorder.