“…Among the several peroxides proposed so far as the high-energy intermediates (HEIs) capable of generating the excited fluorophores during their decomposition, the four-membered cyclic peroxides, such as 4-aryloxy-4-hydroxy-1,2-dioxetane-3-one (DOT) and 1,2-dioxetne-3,4-dione (DOD), have been the most frequently proposed [3,4,6,7,9,10,14,19,21,22]. However, these intermediates have never been captured nor isolated.…”