Taishi Yamada, Taketo Karakisawa, M. Sekine
Jan 27, 2012
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Chemical Physics Letters
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Abstract The thermal chemiluminescence spectra of the dicyclohexylamine (DCHA) salts of glycine, alanine, serine, and threonine were measured with a multichannel Fourier-transform chemiluminescence (FT-CL) spectrometer. The zwitterionic amino acids themselves are non-luminescent because their amine groups are protonated, whereas the corresponding DCHA salts show strong emission in the presence of oxygen because their NH 2 groups are free. It was found that the CH 3 and OH groups on the side chain caused red and blue shifts, respectively, suggesting that thermal luminescence spectroscopy using an FT-CL spectrometer can be used to identify the presence of electron donating or withdrawing groups in chemiluminescent molecules.