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Firefly bioluminescence II. Identification of 2-(6′-hydroxybenzothiazol-2′-yl)-4-hydroxythiazole as a product in the bioluminescence of firefly lanterns and as a product in the chemiluminescence of firefly luciferin in DMSO

✍ Scribed by Nobutaka Suzuki; Toshio Goto

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1971
Tongue: French
Weight: 189 KB
Volume: 12
Category: Article
ISSN: 0040-4039
DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)96770-x

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✦ Synopsis

2-(6'-Hydroxybenzothiazo1-2'-yl)-4-hydroxythiazole (firefly oxyluciferin) (III) has been suggested as the emitter in the firefly bioluminescence and also in the chemiluminescence of firefly luciferin (I) in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) from the consideration of the proposed reaction mechanism, which involves dioxetane intermediate II, and from an analogy with the product of chemiluminescence reaction of 5,5-dimethylluciferin derivatives of I (l-4).

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