Includes bibliographies and index.

Photophysical concepts in condensed media / Frank H. Quina -- Gas-ph ase dioxetane chemiluminescence / Denis J. Bogan -- Synthesis of 1,2-di oxetanes / Karl R. Kopecky -- Determination of chemiexcitation yields i n the thermal generation of electronic excitation from 1,2-dioxetanes / Waldemar Adam -- Determination of activation parameters and the therma l stability of 1,2-dioxetanes / Waldemar Adam and Klaus Zinner -- Elect ro-chemiluminescence / Larry R. Faulkner and Robert S. Glass -- Chemica lly initiated electron-exchange luminescence / Gary B. Schuster and Kei th A. Horn -- Mechanism of bioluminescence / Osamu Shimomura -- Electro nic excitation in dark biological processes / G. Cilento -- Biochemiexc itation : chemiluminescence and the study of biological oxygenation rea ctions / Robert Charles Allen -- Singlet oxygen in biological processes / Nelson Duran.