eng Science and Education Publishing World Journal of Chemical Education 2375-1657 2016-04-08 4 1 13 20 10.12691/wjce-4-1-3 WJCE2016413 article A. Habekost a.habekost@t-online.de 1 Department of Chemistry, University of Education Ludwigsburg, Reuteallee 46, D-71634 Ludwigsburg, Germany Electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL) is not only an aesthetic phenomenon, but also of fundamental interest in analytical chemistry Several experiments are presented to introduce students to the capacity of ECL on the basis of tris(2, 2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium (II) (Ru(bpy)32+) with different coreactants.. First, we summarize some spectroscopic and electrochemical features of Ru(bpy)32+ that are important concerning ECL. Easily implemented experimental set-ups are presented, which show the correlation between ECL-intensity and cyclic voltammetry (CV) for different Ru(bpy)32+ / coreactant systems. The time-dependence of the ECL-decay is measured on a millisecond time-scale with a conventional data acquisition system. Finally, we present an ECL detector that can be used in HPLC as an alternative to adsorption and fluorescence detection. http://pubs.sciepub.com/wjce/4/1/3/wjce-4-1-3.pdf four-year undergraduate beginner PhD student analytical UVVIS and fluorescence spectroscopy mass spectrometry electrochemistry chemiluminescence HPLC hands-on learning/manipulatives