In this paper, the dynamic properties for a Brusselator-type system with diffusion are investigated. By employing the theory of Hopf bifurcation for ordinary and partial differential equations, we mainly obtain some conditions of the stability and Hopf bifurcation for the ODE system, diffusion-driven instability of the equilibrium solution, and the direction of the Hopf bifurcation and the stability of the bifurcating periodic solutions for the PDE system. Finally, som...