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Objective: The purpose of this study was to mix rice and proso millets and obtain high nutritional value, fantastic taste and flavor mixed rice. Methods: By adding different proportions of proso millets to rice, the nutritional value and fantastic taste of mixed rice were evaluated via the amino acid score (AAS), texture profile properties, sensory evaluations and flavor properties. Results: There were significant differences in the texture profile properties, sensory evaluations and flavor properties among cooked proso millets additions. The proportion of the cooked rice addition was significantly positively correlated to the gumminess and chewiness of rice, while it was significant negatively related to the sensory evaluations. Furthermore, the addition of the proso millets increased the variety, content of flavor compounds in mixed rice and obviously improved the scores of the sensory evaluations. Conclusion: The integral quality and nutritional value of the mixed rice were the most excellent when the addition of the Yushu 1 proso millet was 10%~20%.

The tea tussock moth is a pest that damages tea leaves, affecting the quality and yield of tea and causing huge economic losses. The efficient asymmetric total synthesis of the sex pheromone of the tea tussock moth was achieved using commercially available starting materials with a 25% overall yield in 11 steps. Moreover, the chiral moiety was introduced by Evans' template and the key C-C bond construction was accomplished through Julia–Kocienski olefination coupling. The synthetic sex pheromone of the tea tussock moth will facilitate the subsequent assessment and implementation of pheromones as environmentally friendly tools for pest management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

C28H31N8O8Co, monoclinic, P21/c (no. 14), a = 14.8071(17) Å, b = 19.676(2) Å, c = 10.8580(13) Å, V = 3066.7(6) Å3, Z = 4, Rgt(F) = 0.0377, wRref(F2) = 0.1228, T = 293(2) K.

C13H15N9, monoclinic, C2/c (no. 15), a = 22.827(5) Å, b = 7.8830(16) Å, c = 16.020(3) Å, β = 98.95(3)°, V = 2847.6(10) Å3, Z = 8, Rgt(F) = 0.0416, wRref(F2) = 0.1331, T = 293(2) K.

To manipulate the photocatalytic activities of BiOCl photocatalysts, doping and heterojunction engineering are simultaneously adopted. Herein, the photocatalysts Sm3+-doped BiOCl and BiOCl:Sm3+@yg-C3N4 were designed, in which their phase structure, morphology, optical properties and photocatalytic activities were systematically discussed. Excited at 408 nm, red emissions are seen from Sm3+-doped BiOCl microplates and their intensities were impacted by doping content, reaching the maximum value when the Sm3+ content was 1 mol% and the involved concentration mechanism was dominated by quadrupole–quadrupole interaction. Through analyzing the degradation of TC, the visible light triggered photocatalytic behaviors of the resultant compounds were studied. Compared with BiOCl microplates, an improved TC removal ability was seen in Sm3+-doped BiOCl microplates and the products with a Sm3+ content of 0.5 mol% show the best performance. Moreover, through constructing the heterojunction with g-C3N4, the TC removal capacity was further enhanced and the BiOCl:Sm3+@60%g-C3N4 exhibits the optimal photocatalytic activity, which was also much better than that of the commercial SnO2 and TiO2. Accordingly, the ˙O2−, h+ and ˙OH active species were proven to contribute to the involved visible light driven photocatalytic mechanism. Furthermore, the separation and recombination of photogenerated carries via the Z-scheme transfer process in the designed heterojunction composites, led to splendid photocatalytic properties. Additionally, it was verified that the TC solution treated with synthesized compounds was nontoxic toward plant growth. Our findings may propose an available route to regulate the photocatalytic performance of the visible light driven photocatalysts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CQDs/ZnIn2S4 (CQDs represents carbon quantum dots) nanocomposites were prepared via a microwave-assisted hydrothermal method. The photocatalytic activity for the reduction of Cr(VI) to Cr(III) over the as-prepared CQDs/ZnIn2S4 nanocomposites under visible light irradiations was studied. The study found that the reduction of Cr(VI) to Cr(III) over hexagonal ZnIn2S4 can be significantly increased by loading CQDs as a co-catalyst. After 60 min of visible light illumination (λ > 420 nm), almost 100% Cr(VI) can convert to Cr(III) with (NH4)2C2O4 as a scavenger. Furthermore, the CQDs/ZnIn2S4 nanocomposites are demonstrated to execute as bifunctional photocatalysts with appreciable activity in the hybrid systems (Cr(VI)/RhB) under visible light, which made it a potential application material for industrial wastewater treatment. Combined with photoelectrochemical analyses, it can be found that the introduction of CQDs can reduce the recombination of photogenerated electron-hole pairs. Finally, a possible photocatalytic reaction mechanism is also proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

C28H31N8O8Co, monoclinic, P21/c (no. 14), a = 14.8071(17) Å, b = 19.676(2) Å, c = 10.8580(13) Å, V = 3066.7(6) Å3, Z = 4, Rgt(F) = 0.0377, wRref(F2) = 0.1228, T = 293(2) K. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

C13H15N9, monoclinic, C2/c (no. 15), a = 22.827(5) Å, b = 7.8830(16) Å, c = 16.020(3) Å, β = 98.95(3)°, V = 2847.6(10) Å3, Z = 8, Rgt(F) = 0.0416, wRref(F2) = 0.1331, T = 293(2) K. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

C13H15N9, monoclinic, C2/c (no. 15), a = 22.827(5) Å, b = 7.8830(16) Å, c = 16.020(3) Å, β = 98.95(3)°, V = 2847.6(10) Å3, Z = 8, Rgt(F) = 0.0416, wRref(F2) = 0.1331, T = 293(2) K. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The chemical investigation of whole plants Euphorbia stracheyi Boiss from China led to the isolation of one new ent-kaurane diterpene, ent-Kaurane-16β,17,19-triol-3-one (1), along with three known ent-kaurane diterpenoids (2–4) as ent-Kaurane-3α,16β,17-triol (2)，ent-16S,17-dihydroxy-kaurane-3-one (3) and ent-3S,16S,17-trihydroxy-kaurane-2-one (4). Their structures were elucidated by extensive spectroscopic analyses including 1D, 2D NMR, HR-ESI-MS, and by comparison with the literature. Compound 2 was a new natural product and firstly isolated from nature, while compounds (3–4) were isolated from E. stracheyi for the first time. All isolated compounds (1–4) were evaluated for their cytotoxic activities against five human cancer cell lines (including A-549, SMMC-7721, HL-60, MCF-7 and SW-480). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]