Bard A.J. - Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence (Monographs in Electroanalytical Chemistry and Electrochemistry Series)

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ELECTROGENERATED CHEMILUMINESCENCE

Consulting editor

Allen J. Bard
Department of Chemistry
University of Texas
Austin, Texas

Electrochemistry at Solid Electrodes, Ralph N. Adams

Electrochemical Reactions in Nonaqueous Systems, Charles K. Mann and Karen Barnes

Electrochemistry of Metals and Semiconductors: The Application of Solid State Science to Electrochemical Phenomena, Ashok K. Vijh

Modern Polarographic Methods In Analytical Chemistry, A. M. Bond

Laboratory Techniques in Electroanalytical Chemistry, edited by Peter T. Kissinger and William R. Heineman

Standard Potentials in Aqueous Solution, edited by Allen J. Bard, Roger Parsons, and Joseph Jordan

Physical Electrochemistry: Principles, Methods, and Applications, edited by Israel Rubinstein

Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy, edited by Allen J. Bard and Michael B. Mirkin

Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence, edited by Allen J. Bard

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ALLEN J. BARD

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Although the first experiments in electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL) were carried out about 40 years ago, no comprehensive monograph devoted to this field has appreared. This is very surprising, since ECL has entered the main-stream of research and has found a number of applications. Numerous organic and inorganic compounds have been shown to be capable of producing ECL and the study of ECL reactions has provided useful insight into the mechanisms and energetics of electron transfer reactions and electrogenerated intermediates. The use of coreactants in ECL allowed practical analytical applications and also provided information about short-lived intermediates of the coreactant species. In terms of applications, ECL is widely used in immunoassay, thanks largely to the initial development efforts at IGEN, Inc., and now accounts for hundreds of millions of dollars in sales per year. Moreover, light emission in polymer and solid-state electrochemical cells is actively being investigated and developed (often without recognition of the ECL roots of such studies), with the promise of useful light sources and displays. It is clearly time to publish this first monograph, which provides comprehensive reviews of different aspects of ECL.

Chapters 17 of this book present an overview and brief history of ECL (Chapter 1), both the experimental (Chapter 2) and theoretical aspects of ECL (Chapters 3 and 4), a review of the behavior of coreactants (Chapter 5), organic molecules (Chapter 6) and metal chelates (Chapter 7). The other chapters are dedicated to applications: immunoassay (Chapter 8), other analytical uses, e.g. in chromatography (Chapter 9), and devices, such as systems for light production and displays (Chapter 10). Finally there is a brief chapter containing several additional topics and conclusions. Although some knowledge of electrochemistry and physical chemistry is assumed, the key ideas are introduced in Chapter 1 and discussed at a level suitable for beginning graduate students.

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I would like to thank my many students, postdoctoral fellows, and colleagues, and the contributors, who have done so much to develop ECL. I also thank Drs. David Hercules and Ed Chandross, two pioneers in this field, for their comments on Chapter 1. The future for ECL remains bright. It is an interesting and aesthetically pleasing phenomenon. It is a shame it has not yet found its way into elementary general chemistry texts!

Allen J. Bard

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