viii CONTENTS 



The Chemiluminescence oi Luminol 183 



Emil H. White 



Discussion 196 



Some Aspects of the Luminol Light Reaction 200 



H. H. Seliger 

 The Luciferin-Luciferase Reaction 206 



Frank H. Johnson, Edward H.-C. Sie, and Y. Haneda 

 Mechanisms of Bioluminescent Reactions 219 



W. D. McElroy and H. H. Seliger 

 Cypridina Luciferin Oxidation as a Function of pH, 



and Reduction of Luciferin by Ascorbic Acid .... 258 



A. M. Chase, J. H. Ball, C. E. Cornelius, and 



R. J. Lederman 

 Characteristics of Cell-Free Fungal Bioluminescence . . . 262 



R. L. Airth 

 Biochemistry of Renilla renijormis Luminescence . . . 274 



Milton J. Cormier 

 Ionic Effects upon Bioluminescence in Gonyaulax Extracts . 294 



/. Woodland Hastings and Vernon C. Bode 

 Discussion ^0" 



IV. PHOTOSYNTHESIS 



Introductory Comments ^15 



C. B. van Niel 

 Some Photochemical and Photophysical Reactions 



of Chlorophyll and Us Relatives 317 



Melviji Calvin 

 Electron Spin Resonance Studies of Photosynthetic Systems 356 



Barry Commoner 

 Different Forms of Chlorophyll a in vivo and 



Their Photochemical Function 378 



Eugene Rabinoivitch and Govindjee 



Discussion -^86 



Lipid Function in the Photosynthetic Structure .... 392 



A. A. Benson 

 Spectral Changes in Photosynthesis 397 



Bessel Kok and George Hoch 



Discussion '**" 



The Nature and P()ssil)le Function of Chloroplast 



Cytochromes "^24 



Robert Hill and Walter D. Bonner, Jr. 



