00525 IUPAC Gold Book - autocatalytic reaction 10.1351/goldbook.A00525 A00525 current 1 A chemical reaction in which a product (or a reaction intermediate) also functions as a catalyst. In such a reaction the observed rate of reaction is often found to increase with time from its initial value. catalyst https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/C00876 chemical reaction https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/C01033 intermediate https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/I03096 order of reaction https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/O04322 rate of reaction https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/R05156 PAC, 1993, 65, 2291. 'Nomenclature of kinetic methods of analysis (IUPAC Recommendations 1993)' on page 2292 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199365102291) PAC, 1994, 66, 1077. 'Glossary of terms used in physical organic chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1994)' on page 1087 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199466051077) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/A00525/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/A00525/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/A00525/plain Citation: 'autocatalytic reaction' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.A00525 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-06-28T13:34:37+00:00