Applications of chemiluminescence

L.J. Kricka, Clinical applications of chemiluminescence. Anal. Chim. Acta 500, 279-286 (2003). 

Table 2 Applications of Chemiluminescence Detection in Capillary Electrophoresis... 

Garcia-Campana AM, Baeyens WRG (2000) Principles and recent analytical applications of chemiluminescence. Analysis 28 686-698... 

Zhang Z, Zhang S, Zhang X (2005) Recent developments and applications of chemiluminescence sensors. Anal Chim Acta 541 37-47... 

Stevens, R. K., and J. A. Hodgeson. Applications of chemiluminescent reactions to the measurement of air pollutants. Anal. Chem. 45 443A-446A, 449A, 1973. 

Second, whereas the cleavage barrier for the dioxetane is reduced on electron transfer (Figure la), for the a-peroxy lactone it disappears completely (Figure lb) presumably, the 0—0 bond is irreversibly cleaved for the a-peroxy-lactone radical anion . This finding is consistent with the experimental observation that the a-peroxy lactones are considerably more efficient in the electron-transfer-induced chemiluminescence than the corresponding dioxetanes . Thus, if persistent a-peroxy lactones were readily accessible, they should be reagents of choice for commercial applications of chemiluminescence. 

The application of chemiluminescence to atmospheric measurements is reviewed by Navas et al. (1997). 

A. M. Garcia-Campana and W. R. G. Baeyens, eds., Chemiluminescence in Analytical Chemistry (New York Marcel Dekker, 2001) L. J. Kricka, Clinical Applications of Chemiluminescence, Anal. Chim. Acta 2003,500, 279. 

Application of chemiluminescence to chemical analysis has been developing since the latter half of the 1950s. This method has many advantages, e.g., high sensitivity, good selectivity, linearity in a wide concentration range, and quick response. It has also been used for the measurement of air pollutants. This method, however, requires a supply of reactants to produce luminescent species through chemical reaction. This is a difficult point for the application of this method to gas sensors. 

The practical applications of chemiluminescent reactions are numerous. They can function as sources of light, markers, analytical systems, and mechanistic probes, to name only a few. These applications, and the very spectacular nature of the phenomena, will work together to encourage further examinations of these reactions. 

Nathan, R. A., Mendenhall,G. D., and Hassell, J. A., Application of Chemiluminescence to the Characterization of Polymeric Materials, in Proceedings of the TTCP-3 Critical Review Techniques for the Characterization of Polymeric Materials (Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center, 1977), p. 123. 

The application of chemiluminescence by Polanyi and his collaborators to the determination of the dissociation energies of sodium and potassium is an elegant but rather specialized study in the field. It was found that when sodium and halogen vapours react in a very dilute flame , intense chemiluminescence is produced, which can only be attributed to the reaction of halogen atoms with Na2 molecules ... 

Chemiluminescence and bioluminescence differ from fiuo-rometry in that the excitation event is caused by a chemical or electrochemical reaction and not by photoillumina-tion (see Chapter 3). The applications of chemiluminescence and bioluminescence have greatly increased with the development of automated instrumentation and several new reagent systems. Because of their attomole to zeptomole... 

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