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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,856 Views
13 Pages

Tuning the Intramolecular Chemiexcitation of Neutral Dioxetanones by Interaction with Ionic Species

  • Carla M. Magalhães,
  • Joaquim C. G. Esteves da Silva and
  • Luís Pinto da Silva

16 June 2022

The intramolecular chemiexcitation of high-energy peroxide intermediates, such as dioxetanones, is an essential step in different chemi- and bioluminescent reactions. Here, we employed the Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT) methodology...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,081 Views
21 Pages

The Molecular Basis of Organic Chemiluminescence

  • Maidileyvis C. Cabello,
  • Fernando H. Bartoloni,
  • Erick L. Bastos and
  • Wilhelm J. Baader

3 April 2023

Bioluminescence (BL) and chemiluminescence (CL) are interesting and intriguing phenomena that involve the emission of visible light as a consequence of chemical reactions. The mechanistic basis of BL and CL has been investigated in detail since the 1...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,758 Views
21 Pages

25 March 2025

Recently, 2-Coumaranones have emerged as a highly promising class of chemiluminescent compounds, distinguished by their unique structural properties that facilitate efficient light emission. This review provides a comprehensive analysis of their synt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,545 Views
25 Pages

The Role of Tyr-His-Trp Triad and Water Molecule Near the N1-Atom of 2-Hydroperoxycoelenterazine in Bioluminescence of Hydromedusan Photoproteins: Structural and Mutagenesis Study

  • Pavel V. Natashin,
  • Ludmila P. Burakova,
  • Margarita I. Kovaleva,
  • Mikhail B. Shevtsov,
  • Daria A. Dmitrieva,
  • Elena V. Eremeeva,
  • Svetlana V. Markova,
  • Alexey V. Mishin,
  • Valentin I. Borshchevskiy and
  • Eugene S. Vysotski

Hydromedusan photoproteins responsible for the bioluminescence of a variety of marine jellyfish and hydroids are a unique biochemical system recognized as a stable enzyme-substrate complex consisting of apoprotein and preoxygenated coelenterazine, wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,028 Views
15 Pages

Investigation of the Chemiluminescent Reaction of a Fluorinated Analog of Marine Coelenterazine

  • Carla M. Magalhães,
  • Joaquim C. G. Esteves da Silva and
  • Luís Pinto da Silva

13 February 2024

Bioluminescence (BL) and chemiluminescence (CL) are remarkable processes in which light is emitted due to (bio)chemical reactions. These reactions have attracted significant attention for various applications, such as biosensing, bioimaging, and biom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,895 Views
7 Pages

12 July 2021

Among all bioluminescent organisms, the firefly is the most famous, with a high luminescent efficiency of 41%, which is widely used in the fields of biotechnology, biomedicine and so on. The entire bioluminescence (BL) process involves a series of co...