A kinetic study by Lancaster et al. on a catalytic asymmetric alkene bromoesterification reaction (Table , Entry 1) is a good demonstrator of the power of automatic total VTNA for elucidating rate equations for catalytic reaction systems (Fig. ). Using Auto-VTNA the analysis could be expanded to include same excess and product doping experiments, revealing an order of -0.75 in the amide by-product and an order of 0 in the desired product (Fig. ). The linearisation achieved by also normalising the time axis with respect to the inhibitory byproduct indicates that the complete rate equation has been elucidated.