Effects of ozone concentration on the postharvest quality and microbial diversity of Muscat Hamburg grapes.

Grapevines are widely planted around the world. Although grapes have high nutritional value, they are highly perishable. To explore the effect of ozone concentration on the postharvest quality of Muscat Hamburg grapes, the ethylene production rate, respiratory intensity, soluble solids, titratable acidity, firmness, threshing rate, total yeast and mold counts, and the activities of superoxide dismutase, peroxidase, catalase, polyphenol oxidase and phenylalanine ammonia lyase were determined, and the fungal metagenome on the grape surface was analyzed.

Design and fabrication of a series of metal-mediated assemblies with tetrapyridylporphyrins for supramolecular solar cells.

In this work, a metal-mediated assembling strategy has been used to organize a series of new assemblies based on tetrapyridylporphyrin () on nanostructured TiO2 electrode surfaces, wherein the metal ions (, = Zn(2+), Cd(2+), Hg(2+) and Mn(2+)) bridge the pyridyl units of and (E)-4-[(pyridin-4-ylmethylene)-amino]benzoic acid (), resulting in a assembled mode. The assembled structures were characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), computational calculations, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), IR, UV-vis absorption and fluorescence spectra. The performances of the assembly-sensitized solar cells were also measured under an irradiance of 100 mW cm(-2) AM 1.

A one-dimensional silver(I) coordination polymer based on the 2-[2-(pyridin-4-yl)-1H-benzimidazol-1-ylmethyl]phenol ligand exhibiting photoluminescence.

A one-dimensional Ag(I) coordination complex, catena-poly[[silver(I)-μ-{2-[2-(pyridin-4-yl)-1H-benzimidazol-1-ylmethyl]phenol-κ(2)N(2):N(3)}] perchlorate monohydrate], {[Ag(C19H15N3O)]ClO4·H2O}n, was synthesized by the reaction of 2-[2-(pyridin-4-yl)-1H-benzimidazol-1-ylmethyl]phenol (L) with silver perchlorate. In the complex, the L ligands are arranged alternately and link Ag(I) cations through one benzimidazole N atom and the N atom of the pyridine ring, leading to an extended zigzag chain structure. In addition, the one-dimensional chains are extended into a three-dimensional supramolecular architecture via O-H···O hydrogen-bond interactions and π-π stacking interactions.

1,3-Dimethyl-1H-1,2,3-benzotriazol-3-ium tetra-chloridoferrate(III).

The asymmetric unit of the title salt, (C8H10N3)[FeCl4], contains one 1,3-dimethyl-1H-1,2,3-benzotriazol-3-ium cation and one tetra-chloridoferrate anion. The Fe(III) atom in the anion is tetra-hedrally coordinated by four Cl atoms. In the crystal, inter-actions are observed between the Cl atoms and the triazolium ring [Cl⋯centroid distances = 3.

Bis[2-(1H-benzotriazol-1-yl)-1H-benz-imidazol-1-ido]diethano-lcadmium.

In the title complex, [Cd(C13H8N5)2(C2H5OH)2], the Cd(II) cation is located on an inversion center and coordinated by two deprotonated 2-(1H-benzotriazol-1-yl)-1H-benzimid-azol-1-ide (L) ligands and two ethanol mol-ecules in a distorted N4O2 octa-hedral geometry. In the L ligand, the dihedral angle between benzoimidazole and benzotriazole ring systems is 10.8 (3)°.