Recent analytical applications of nanoparticle sensitized lucigenin and luminol chemiluminescent reactions.

There is an ever-increasing demand for rapid, sensitive, cost effective and selective detection methods for the analysis of many essential compounds. When chemiluminescence has been introduced to analytical chemistry as a detection technique, it has been shown to meet many of these requirements. This method has become a powerful tool for the determination of many compounds. Using this method, low detection limits can be obtained with simple and inexpensive instrumentation. Coupled with flow injection technique the method has become more popular for wider applications. Since many excellent reviews on the chemiluminogenic techniques have appeared in the literature in recent years, the present paper does not intend to cover the exhaustive studies in this area, but will selectively describe the analytical applications of nanoparticle sensitized lucigenin and luminol chemiluminescent reactions and evaluate their recent progress together with our present work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]