Fluorescence-producing reactions oxidative, characteristics

Chemical Characteristics of the Oxidative Fluorescence-Producing Reaction and Presumptive Implication of Malonaldehyde The reaction producing measurable fluorescence on polyamide powder can be carried out in the gas phase by exposure to the volatiles from oxidizing polyunsaturated lipids, whether acids, esters, triglycerides, or phosphatides. It can be also carried out within either the oil phase or a water emulsion, and, as noted above, it can be followed in the vapor above an emulsion, providing the pH is 5.5 or below. 

The reduction state of the pterin was a point of uncertainty throughout these studies of molybopterin derivatives. The absence of fluorescence in anaerobic molybdopterin samples suggested a reduced pterin. Redox titration of XO and SO both indicated that the pterin could undergo a two-electron oxidation reaction (73, 74). Sulfite oxidase, for example, produced the fluorescence characteristic of an oxidized pterin after addition of 2 equiv of ferricyanide. However, titrating XO was problematic due to interfering redox processes of the iron-sulfur clusters. 

Chemiluminescence is, in a general sense, the opposite of photodissociation. Here a molecule is formed in an excited state by means of chemical reaction. The new species then fluoresces to deexcite. It is the process which accounts for the characteristic colors of flames. An example is found in the combustion of CO where atomic oxygen is produced, most likely as the first step in the oxidation of CO. Then the following sequence of reactions occurs ... 

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