Chemiluminescence of firefly luciferin. Model for the bioluminescent reaction and identification of the product excited state

TA Hopkins, HH Seliger, EH White…

Index: Hopkins; Seliger; White; Cass Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1967 , vol. 89, # 26 p. 7148 - 7150

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Abstract

(10) The base-solvent system was first used for the chemiluminescence of luminol (EH White, J. Chem. Educ., 34,275 (1957)). and applied to luciferin by HH Seliger and WD McElroy, Science, 138, 683 (1962).(1 1) The low-intensity greenish emission reported in addition to the red emission (ref 2 of ref 10) is most likely the weak chemiluminescence of unreacted luciferin in previous LHzAMP preparations. This does not occur in our present ...