ABSTRACT
Andrzej Kapturkiewicz Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
I. INTRODUCTION
Exploration and explanation of the relationships between molecular structure and chemical properties and reactivity are the main activities of physical chemistry. This is also true in the case of electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL) processes, where interpretation and prediction of the spectral characteristics and the efficiency of emitted light in a given ECL system seem to be the most important tasks from the theoretical as well as practical points of view. Current understanding of the ECL mechanisms allows for prediction of light emission during a given chemical reaction in solution but quantitative description remains rather difficult because of the many factors that affect or interfere in chemiluminescence processes.
