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Only a few years after the first paper on luminol, Gleu and Petsch [1], in 1935, published the first report on lucigenin (2) chemiluminescence
It was eventually shown that the emitting species is N-methyl acridone (3) — provided that at the appropriately low concentration, no energy transfer to secondary reaction products, formed from (3) in the aqueous alkaline medium, takes place. N-methyl acridone fluoresces at λmax 445 nm, that is in the blue region of the spectrum. That greenish chemiluminescence is generally observed is due to energy transfer from (3) to lucigenin, to dimethyl biacridylidene and other compounds (for details see [2, 18]).
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Gundermann, KD., McCapra, F. (1987). Acridine Derivatives. In: Chemiluminescence in Organic Chemistry. Reactivity and Structure: Concepts in Organic Chemistry, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71645-4_8
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