Possible mechanism for bacterial bioluminescence and luminol chemiluminescence
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 3,p. 114-117
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39790000114
Abstract
The structures of the peroxides which react with flavinium salts with light emission, supported by a study of isotope effects, suggest an electron transfer mechanism with concomitant loss of a proton or H-atom; the mechanism may be applicable to the in vivo bacterial system and to luminol.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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