Talk:Firefly luciferin

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This section says how light is produced by the decomposition of an unstable dioxetane, but not how this dioxetane is produced from the oxidation of luciferin (e.g. what the groups R1 and R2 are, and the other reaction products from the oxidation) nor the relation of the dioxetane to the 2-cyano-6-hydroxybenzothiazole pathway for regeneration of luciferin from oxyluciferin. The bioluminescence and luciferin articles shed no light on it either (pardon the expression). Can an expert help, or is this just something unknown to science? CharlesHBennett (talk) 13:49, 19 January 2017 (UTC)