“…Oxygen reacts with the photochemically generated radicals which, for the ethanol species, are produced according to BQ + hv -BQ'(S) (8) BQ' (3 -BQ' (TI (9) BQ*(TI + CH~CH,OH + BQH-+ CH,~HOH (10) where (S) and (T) denote the singlet and triplet states respFctively, BQH' is the semiquinone radical and CH,CHOH the a-hydroxyalkyl radical. Under anaerobic conditions the two radical intermediates disproportionate and produce the oxidized form of the analyte and the reduced form of the quinone:…”