Table of Contents

Mechanisms of Chemiluminescence and Bioluminescence.- Theory and Gas Phase Reactions.- Chemiluminescence in Gases.- Transvibronic Reactions in Molecular Beams.- Studies of Vibrationally Excited Molecules by Infrared Chemiluminescence.- Chemical Lasers Produced from O(3P) Atom Reactions. II. a Mechanistic Study of 5-?m CO Laser Emission from the O + C2H2 Reaction.- The Nitrogen Afterglow.- The Air Afterglow Revisited.- Chemiluminescence Reactions Involving Metal Vapors.- Oxygen Reactions.- The Quenching of Singlet Molecular Oxygen.- Chemiluminescence of Perhydroxyl- and Carbonate-Radicals.- Radical Ions.- Chemiluminescent Reactions of Radical-Ions.- Cation-Anion Annihilation of Naphthalene, Anthracene, and Tetracene.- Chemiluminescence from Radical Ion Recombination VI. Reactions, Yields, and Energies.- Chemiluminescence from Radical Ion Recombination VII. Hetero-Excimer Chemiluminescence Yields.- On The Efficiency of Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence.- Organic Reaction Mechanisms.- Chemiluminescence of Diazaquinones and Related Compounds.- The Chemiluminescence of Acyl Hydrazides.- Comparison of Potassium Iodide Quenching of 3-Aminophthalate Fluorescence and Luminol Chemiluminescence in Aqueous Solution.- The Chemiluminescent Autoxidation of Reduced Biisoquinolinium Dications.- Oxygen in Chemiluminescence. A Competitive Pathway of Dioxetane Decomposition Catalyzed by Electron Donors.- Chemical Mechanism in Bioluminescence.- Chemical and Enzymatic Mechanisms of Firefly Luminescence.- Model Compounds in the Study of Bioluminescence.- Aspects of the Mechanism of Bioluminescence.- Mechanism of the Luminescent Oxidation of Cypridina Luciferin.- Mechanism of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence Elucidated by Use of Oxygen-18.- Structure and Synthesis of a Luciferin Activein the Bioluminescent Systems of the Sea Pansy (Renilla) and Certain other Bioluminescent Coelenterates.- Bacterial Bioluminescence. Mechanistic Implications of Active Center Chemistry of Luciferase.- Effects of Aldehyde Carbon Chain Length and Type of Luciferase on the Quantum Yields of Bacterial Bioluminescence.- Lumisomes: A Bioluminescent Particle Isolated from the Sea Pansy Renilla reniformis.- Applications of Chemiluminescence.- A Review of Experimental Measurement Methods Based on Gas-Phase Chemiluminescence.- Chemiluminescence Analysis for Trace Elements.- Chemical Light Product Research and Development.- Applications of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence.- Abstracts of Short Contributions.- Epilogue.