Background: The salt tolerance of halophilic bacteria make them promising candidates for technical applications, like isolation of salt tolerant enzymes or remediation of contaminated saline soils and waters. Furthermore, some halophilic bacteria synthesize inorganic solids resulting in organic–inorganic hybrids. This process is known as biomineralization, which is induced and/or controlled by ...

Three Keggin-based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) containing multi-nuclear silver subunits, [Ag7(ptz)5(H2O)2][H2SiMo12O40] (1), [Ag8(ptz)5(H2O)2][AsW12O40] (2) and [Ag7(ptz)5(H2O)][HAsMo12O40] (3) (ptzH = 5-(4-pyridyl)-tetrazole), have been synthesized under hydrothermal conditions by changing the inorganic polyanions. The new compounds have been characterized by elemental analyses, TG analyse...

Schiff base complexes of transition metals are of particular interest to inorganic chemists because of their structural, spectral and chemical properties, which are often strongly dependant on the nature of the ligand structure. Large number of metal (II) complexes with Schiff-base ligands has been extensively studied for their interesting structural specialties, applications and properties. Th...

Two pairs of enantiomerically pure three-dimensional (3D) chiral polyoxometalate (POM) framework materials l,d-[K(H2O)]6·[H2GeW12O40]3·35H2O (1a and 1b) and l,d-[K(H2O)]6·[H2SiW12O40]3·29H2O (2a and 2b) based on inorganic achiral building blocks, have been synthesized and characterized by X-ray crystallography, elemental analysis, powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), UV-Vis spectroscopy, circular d...

A series of tetranuclear grid-type complexes were prepared by the reaction of the asymmetric multidentate ligand HL (HL = 2-[3-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-1H-pyrazol-5-yl]-6-pyridine carboxylic acid ethylester) with different metal sources. The tetranuclear copper complex, [Cu4(L1)4(NO3)4(H2O)4] Et2O 2MeOH (1, HL1 = 2-[3-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-1H-pyrazol-5-yl]-6-pyridine carboxylic acid methyl ester) consists...

A crown-shaped organic-inorganic hybrid polyoxomolybdate, Na5[H7{N(CH2PO3)3}Mo6O16(OH) (H2O)4]4·18H2O (1) has been presented and characterized. Such an intriguing structure consists of a 24-molybdenum-membered polyanion constructed by organotriphosphonate ligands, which represents the highest nuclearity of metal atoms in the area of organophosphonate-based polyoxometalates.

IR photodissociation (IRPD) spectra of [(N2O)nH2O] with n = 2–7 are measured in the 1100–3800 cm region. In parallel, the geometry optimization and the vibrational analysis are carried out at the B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) level of theory. In the OH stretching (2400–3800 cm) region, the IRPD spectrum of the [(N2O)2H2O] ion shows a sharp band at 3452 cm and a broad one at around 2700 cm, which are assi...

The adsorption of O2/H2O molecules on the ZnO nanowire (NW) surface results in the long lifetime of photo-generated carriers and thus benefits ZnO NW-based ultraviolet photodetectors by suppressing the dark current and improving the photocurrent gain, but the slow adsorption process also leads to slow detector response time. Here we show that a thermally evaporated copper phthalocyanine film is...

Three lithium coordination polymers, [Li4(H2O)2(EDTA)] (1), [Li4(H2O)4(BTCA)] (2), and (H2NMe2)2[Li2(H2O)2(BTCA)] (3) (H4EDTA = ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, H4BTCA = 1,2,3,4-butane tetracarboxylic acid, H2NMe2 = dimethyl amine), have been synthesized by reacting lithium salts with aliphatic carboxylic acids using a solvothermal method. The structures of all the three complexes have been det...

Cellulose derivatives (Figure 1) have many important commercial applications in the fiber, paper, membrane, polymer and paints industries. However, there are only a limited number of common solvents in which cellulose is soluble; solvents include, carbon disulfide, N,Ndimethylacetamide/lithium chloride (DMAC/LiCl), concentrated inorganic salt (ZnCl/H2O, Ca(SCN)2/H2O) and mineral acids (H2SO4/H3...