Chemiluminescence and Bioluminescence

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Mechanisms of Chemiluminescence and Bioluminescence....Pages 1-6
Chemiluminescence in Gases....Pages 7-28
Transvibronic Reactions in Molecular Beams....Pages 29-42
Studies of Vibrationally Excited Molecules by Infrared Chemiluminescence....Pages 43-59
Chemical Lasers Produced from O( 3 P) Atom Reactions. II. a Mechanistic Study of 5-μm CO Laser Emission from the O + C 2 H 2 Reaction....Pages 61-71
The Nitrogen Afterglow....Pages 73-81
The Air Afterglow Revisited....Pages 83-100
Chemiluminescence Reactions Involving Metal Vapors....Pages 101-110
The Quenching of Singlet Molecular Oxygen....Pages 111-130
Chemiluminescence of Perhydroxyl- and Carbonate-Radicals....Pages 131-141
Chemiluminescent Reactions of Radical-Ions....Pages 143-145
Cation-Anion Annihilation of Naphthalene, Anthracene, and Tetracene....Pages 147-168
Chemiluminescence from Radical Ion Recombination VI. Reactions, Yields, and Energies....Pages 169-180
Chemiluminescence from Radical Ion Recombination VII. Hetero-Excimer Chemiluminescence Yields....Pages 181-191
On The Efficiency of Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence....Pages 193-208
Chemiluminescence of Diazaquinones and Related Compounds....Pages 209-229
The Chemiluminescence of Acyl Hydrazides....Pages 231-244
Comparison of Potassium Iodide Quenching of 3-Aminophthalate Fluorescence and Luminol Chemiluminescence in Aqueous Solution....Pages 245-248
The Chemiluminescent Autoxidation of Reduced Biisoquinolinium Dications....Pages 249-263
Oxygen in Chemiluminescence. A Competitive Pathway of Dioxetane Decomposition Catalyzed by Electron Donors....Pages 265-283
Chemical and Enzymatic Mechanisms of Firefly Luminescence....Pages 285-311
Model Compounds in the Study of Bioluminescence....Pages 313-323
Aspects of the Mechanism of Bioluminescence....Pages 325-335
Mechanism of the Luminescent Oxidation of Cypridina Luciferin....Pages 337-344
Mechanism of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence Elucidated by Use of Oxygen-18....Pages 345-359
Structure and Synthesis of a Luciferin Active in the Bioluminescent Systems of the Sea Pansy ( Renilla ) and Certain other Bioluminescent Coelenterates....Pages 361-368
Bacterial Bioluminescence. Mechanistic Implications of Active Center Chemistry of Luciferase....Pages 369-380
Effects of Aldehyde Carbon Chain Length and Type of Luciferase on the Quantum Yields of Bacterial Bioluminescence....Pages 381-386
Lumisomes: A Bioluminescent Particle Isolated from the Sea Pansy Renilla reniformis ....Pages 387-392
A Review of Experimental Measurement Methods Based on Gas-Phase Chemiluminescence....Pages 393-426
Chemiluminescence Analysis for Trace Elements....Pages 427-449
Chemical Light Product Research and Development....Pages 451-460
Applications of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence....Pages 461-478
Abstracts of Short Contributions....Pages 479-498
Epilogue....Pages 499-499
Back Matter....Pages 501-515