Abstract:
CONTENTS I. Introduction 293 II. Relation between chemiluminescence and mechanism of the oxidation of organic substances by molecular oxygen 293 III. Use of chemiluminescent methods to investigate the mechanism of the action of antioxidants 294 IV. Chemiluminescent methods for measuring the rate constants of the reactions of free radicals 296 V. Chemiluminescence of irradiated proteins, nucleic acids, and synthetic polymers 298