Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Chemiluminescent Imidazopyrazinones: A Step to Future Diagnosis Tools
(Ara Núñez-Montenegro, Paulo J.O. Ferreira and Luís Pinto da Silva, Chemistry Research Unit, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal)
Chapter 2. Emitter Structure in the Firefly Luciferin-Luciferase System: A Historical Perspective
(Natalia N. Ugarova, PhD, and Galina Y. Lomakina, PhD, Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)
Chapter 3. Chemiluminescence of Fullerenes and Their Derivatives
(Ramil G. Bulgakov and Dim I. Galimov, Institute of Molecule and Crystal Physics, Ufa Federal Research Center, Ufa, Russia, and others)
Chapter 4. Chemiluminescence of Lanthanide Ions
(Ramil G. Bulgakov and Dim I. Galimov, Institute of Molecule and Crystal Physics, Ufa Federal Research Center, Ufa, Russia, and others)
Chapter 5. Computational and Experimental Aspects of Acridinium Esters. Chemiluminescence and Their Applications
(Karol Krzymiński and Beata Zadykowicz, Laboratory of Luminescence Research, Faculty of Chemistry,
University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland)
Chapter 6. Phenothiazine Derivatives as Enhancers of Peroxidase-Catalyzed Chemiluminescence and Their Application in Bioanalysis
(Ivan Yu. Sakharov, Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)
Chapter 7. Bioluminescence in Squids
(Jeremy D. Mirza and Anderson G. Oliveira, Institute of Environmental, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Diadema, Brazil, and others)
Chapter 8. Metal-Enhanced Chemiluminescence
(Joshua Moskowitz and Chris D. Geddes, Institute of Fluorescence and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Maryland, US)
Chapter 9. Crystalline Fireflies: From Models for Bioluminescence to Solid State Chemiluminescence Reactions
(Stefan Schramm, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany. New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Chapter 10. Thermostabilization of Firefly Luciferase
(Roghaye Hamidi and Saman Hosseinkhani, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Science, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran)
Chapter 11. Theoretical Studies of Chemiluminescence
(Cristina García-Iriepa, Romain Berraud-Pache and Isabelle Navizet, Laboratoire Modélisation et Simulation Multi Echelle, Université Paris-Est, MSME, UPEM, Marne-la-Vallée, France, and others)
Chapter 12. Multiconfigurational Quantum Chemiluminescence
(Daniel Roca-Sanjuán, Javier Carmona-García, Miriam Navarrete-Miguel, Antonio Francés-Monerris and Angelo Giussani, Institut de Ciència Molecular, Universitat de València, València, Spain)
Chapter 13. The Art of Chemiluminescence Experiments: Easy to Execute Chemiluminescence Demonstrations as an Educational Tool for Teaching Fundamental Energy Transductions and Attracting High-School Students Towards Chemistry
Index
Audience
Chemists; pharmacists; biologists; technicians in food, clinical, toxicological and environmental disciplines; technicians and managers at chemical analytical laboratories; in general, researchers focusing on the study and/or application of chemiluminescence/chemiluminescence-based techniques.
Keywords
Chemiluminescence, Bioluminescence, Luciferase, Luminescence, Oxyluciferin