Radicals chemiluminescence mechanism

Tertiary peroxyl radicals also produce chemiluminescence although with lower efficiencies. For example, the intensity from cumene autooxidation, where the peroxyl radical is tertiary, is a factor of 10 less than that from ethylbenzene (132). The chemiluminescent mechanism for cumene may be the same as for secondary hydrocarbons because methylperoxy radical combination is involved in the termination step. The primary methylperoxyl radical terminates according to the chemiluminescent reaction just shown for (36), ie, R = H. 

The weak chemiluminescence of Grignard compounds in air has been known since 1906. A radical chain mechanism similar to that of hydrocarbon autoxidation appears to provide the excitation energy of the emitting product. Until recently the relations between constitution and chemiluminescence in Grignard compounds were rather obscure j>-chloro-phenylmagnesium chloride was found to be the most efficient compound. 

A review of chemiluminescent and bioluminescent methods in analytical chemistry has been given by Kricka and Thorpe. A two-phase flow cell for chemiluminescence and bioluminescencc has been designed by Mullin and Seitz. The chemiluminescence mechanisms of cyclic hydrazides, such as luminol, have been extensively analysed. " Fluorescence quantum yields of some phenyl and phenylethynyl aromatic compounds in peroxylate systems have been determined in benzene. Excited triplet states from dismutation of geminate alkoxyl radical pairs are involved in chemiluminescence from hyponitrite esters. Ruorophor-labelled compounds can be determined by a method based on peroxyoxalate-induced chemiluminescence. Fluorescence and phosphorescence spectra of firefly have been used to identify the multiplicity of the emitting species. " The chemiluminescence and e.s.r. of plasma-irradiated saccharides and the relationship between lyoluminescence and radical reaction rate constants have also been investigated. Electroluminescence from poly(vinylcarbazole) films has been reported in a series of four... 

Several additional chemiluminescence mechanisms have been described, which are based on excited-state generation by electron transfer in a radical ion pair according to... 

Molecular emission cavity analysis (MECA) is a flame chemiluminescence technique based on the generation of excited molecules, radicals, or atoms within a hydrogen diffusion flame. The excited species are formed by direct or indirect chemiluminescence mechanisms and are confined within the inner space of a small cavity, which is positioned at a preselected point of the flame environment. The emission is monitored at the characteristic wavelength of... 

Luminescence can arise from two mechanisms (1) recombination of charged particles or radicals (2) mechanical excitation of units in the polymer chain. Thus, luminescence depends on the nature of the polymer, the presence of additives, and temperature. As luminescence has been found to be absent on grinding in vacuum or in an inert atmosphere, it has thus been suggested that the afterglow is a result of recombination of peroxy radicals [43]. Chemiluminescence intensity thus depends on the kind and pressure of the surrounding gas [44]. 

The mechanism of chemiluminescence is still being studied and most mechanistic interpretations should be regarded as tentative. Nevertheless, most chemiluminescent reactions can be classified into (/) peroxide decomposition, including biolurninescence and peroxyoxalate chemiluminescence (2) singlet oxygen chemiluminescence and (J) ion radical or electron-transfer chemiluminescence, which includes electrochemiluminescence. 

Subsequent studies (63,64) suggested that the nature of the chemical activation process was a one-electron oxidation of the fluorescer by (27) followed by decomposition of the dioxetanedione radical anion to a carbon dioxide radical anion. Back electron transfer to the radical cation of the fluorescer produced the excited state which emitted the luminescence characteristic of the fluorescent state of the emitter. The chemical activation mechanism was patterned after the CIEEL mechanism proposed for dioxetanones and dioxetanes discussed earher (65). Additional support for the CIEEL mechanism, was furnished by demonstration (66) that a linear correlation existed between the singlet excitation energy of the fluorescer and the chemiluminescence intensity which had been shown earher with dimethyl dioxetanone (67). 

There are still some non-explained observations. For example, syndiotactic PP was reported [45,46] as being more stable than isotactic polymer. At 140°C, the maximum chemiluminescence intensity was achieved after 2,835 min for syndiotactic PP, while isotactic polymer attained the maximum after only 45 min. Atactic PP was reported to be more stable than the isotactic polymer [46]. An explanation has been offered that the structure of isotactic PP is much more favourable for autooxidation, which proceeds easier via a back-biting mechanism where peroxyl radicals abstract adjacent tertiary hydrogens on the same polymer chain. 

Antioxidants shift the autoaccelerating increase of chemiluminescence intensity to higher time. This is due to reactions 12 and 13 of the Bolland-Gee mechanism (Section 1, Scheme 2) in which peroxyl radicals and hydroperoxides are scavenged until antioxidants InFl and D are consumed. A typical example of such a behavior occurs for samples of PP containing 0.1 %wt. of Irganox 1010 (a sterically hindered phenol) (Figure 18 and Table 4). The presence of antioxidants usually reduces the maximum chemiluminescence intensity [61,62]. This may be explained by the quenching effect of the antioxidant on excited carbonyls, but it may be also related to the mechanism of oxidation of stabilized PP. Stabilizers in... 

The degradation process has a free radical mechanism. It is initiated by free radicals P that appear due to, for example, hydroperoxide decomposition induced thermally or by trace amounts of metal ions present in the polysaccharide. One cannot exclude even direct interaction of the polysaccharide with oxygen in its ground triplet state with biradical character. Hydroperoxidic and/or peracid moieties are easily formed by oxidation of semiacetal chain end groups. The sequence of reactions on carbon 6 of polysaccharide structural unit that ultimately may lead to chemiluminescence is shown in Scheme 11. 

DPA) in dimethylphthalate at about 70°, yields a relatively strong blue Umax =435 nm) chemiluminescence the quantum yield is about 7% that of luminol 64>. The emission spectrum matches that of DPA fluorescence so that the available excitation energy is more than 70 kcal/mole. Energy transfer was observed on other fluorescers, e.g. rubrene and fluorescein. The mechansim of the phthaloyl peroxide/fluorescer chemiluminescence reaction very probably involves radicals. Luminol also chemiluminesces when heated with phthaloyl peroxide but only in the presence of base, which suggests another mechanism. The products of phthaloyl peroxide thermolysis are carbon dioxide, benzoic acid, phthalic anhydride, o-phenyl benzoic acid and some other compounds 65>66>. It is not yet known which of them is the key intermediate which transfers its excitation energy to the fluorescer. 

Finally, we mention another experimental result which points to a radical mechanism in luminol chemiluminescence. 

Aqueous alkaline luminol solutions can be excited to chemiluminescence by pulse radiolysis, the only additional requirement being oxygen 119h The suggested mechanism is that hydroxyl radicals attacking luminol monoanions, followed by reaction of the luminol radical anion thus formed with oxygen ... 

Chemiluminescence also occurs during electrolysis of mixtures of DPACI2 99 and rubrene or perylene In the case of rubrene the chemiluminescence matches the fluorescence of the latter at the reduction potential of rubrene radical anion formation ( — 1.4 V) at —1.9 V, the reduction potential of DPA radical anion, a mixed emission is observed consisting of rubrene and DPA fluorescence. Similar results were obtained with the dibromide 100 and DPA and/or rubrene. An energy-transfer mechanism from excited DPA to rubrene could not be detected under the reaction conditions (see also 154>). There seems to be no explanation yet as to why, in mixtures of halides like DPACI2 and aromatic hydrocarbons, electrogenerated chemiluminescence always stems from that hydrocarbon which is most easily reduced. A great number of aryl and alkyl halides is reported to exhibit this type of rather efficient chemiluminescence 155>. 

A general theory of the aromatic hydrocarbon radical cation and anion annihilation reactions has been forwarded by G. J. Hoytink 210> which in particular deals with a resonance or a non-resonance electron transfer mechanism leading to excited singlet or triplet states. The radical ion chemiluminescence reactions of naphthalene, anthracene, and tetracene are used as examples. 

The mechanism of the chemiluminescent reactions between alkyl halides and electrogenerated aromatic hydrocarbon radicals (cf. p. 119) has been elucidated in more detail 213>. The proposed general mechanism is consistent with the observed experimental results ... 

We should also note that there are other ways in which substances can luminesce (/.e., produce light). One of the most common nonfluorescent mechanisms is called chemiluminescence. Chemical reactions can produce light when radicals (/.e., atoms or molecules with reactive unpaired electrons) combine to form a covalent bond. Heating of molecules can also cause them to display chemiluminescence. And, of course, there are biological processes that are accompanied by chemiluminescence. The most familiar case is the luciferase reaction associated with fire flies and luminescent marine creatures. Peroxidase reactions also produce faint luminescence. 

Hi. Lysine. Gamma radiolysis of aerated aqueous solution of lysine (94) has been shown, as inferred from iodometric measurements, to give rise to hydroperoxides in a similar yield to that observed for valine and leucine. However, attempts to isolate by HPLC the peroxidic derivatives using the post-column derivatization chemiluminescence detection approach were unsuccessful. This was assumed to be due to the instability of the lysine hydroperoxides under the conditions of HPLC analysis. Indirect evidence for the OH-mediated formation of hydroperoxides was provided by the isolation of four hydroxylated derivatives of lysine as 9-fluoromethyl chloroformate (FMOC) derivatives . Interestingly, NaBILj reduction of the irradiated lysine solutions before FMOC derivatization is accompanied by a notable increase in the yields of hydroxylysine isomers. Among the latter oxidized compounds, 3-hydroxy lysine was characterized by extensive H NMR and ESI-MS measurements whereas one diastereomer of 4-hydroxylysine and the two isomeric forms of 5-hydroxylysine were identified by comparison of their HPLC features as FMOC derivatives with those of authentic samples prepared by chemical synthesis. A reasonable mechanism for the formation of the four different hydroxylysines and, therefore, of related hydroperoxides 98-100, involves initial OH-mediated hydrogen abstraction followed by O2 addition to the carbon-centered radicals 95-97 thus formed and subsequent reduction of the resulting peroxyl radicals (equation 55). 

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