Chemiluminescent Probe

Chemiluminescence (also chemoluminescence) is the emission of light (luminescence) as the result of a chemical reaction. Chemiluminescence differs from fluorescence or phosphorescence in that the electronic excited state is the product of a chemical reaction rather than of the absorption of a photon. Chemiluminescent Probe are not always substrate but react with a product of reaction of a substrate hydrolyzed by an enzyme: it is the case of compounds reacting with thiocholine after hydrolysis of acetylthiocholine by cholinesterases