2 resultados para TiO2, Nanoparticles, RhB, UV and Visible Irradiation
em Brock University, Canada
Resumo:
The Impact of the Multicolor Asian Lady Beetle (Harmonia axyridis) on Niagara Wine Quality The possible influence of Harmonia axyridis (the Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle) on the sensory properties of wine was investigated. H. axyridis beetles were added to white and red grape musts at a rate of 0, 1 or 10 per L, and a trained panel evaluated the finished wines using flavor-profiling techniques. Significant modification of both wine aroma and flavor characteristics were observed in the 10 beetlelL treatments, with smaller effects noted at the 1 beetlelL rate. Vinification in the presence of H. axyridis gave higher intensity scores for peanut, bell pepper and asparagus aromas and flavors in the white wines, and peanut, asparagus/bell pepper, and earthy/herbaceous aromas and flavors in the red wines. In addition, sweet, acid and bitter tastes were affected in red wines, and a general trend of decreasing fruit and floral intensities with increasing beetle rate was observed in both white and red wines. 15 ngIL Isopropylmethoxypyrazine was added to control wines and sensory profiles similar to high beetle treatments were obtained, supporting the hypothesis that methoxypyrazines from beetles are implicated in the taint. A trained panel evaluated the treated wines after 10 months of aging using the same sensory methods described above. Sensory profiles were very similar. Fennenting in the presence of Harmonia Axyridis (HA) had little influence on the chemical composition of the ftnished wine. The notable exception IS Isopropylmethoxypyrazine content, which was assessed usmg GC-MS analysis and showed increased concentration with increasing beetle nwnber for both white and red wmes. The influence of potential remedial treatments on the sensory properties of white and red wines tainted by Harmonia axyridis were also investigated. Bentonite, activated charcoal, oak chips, de-odorized oak chips, and UV or light irradiation were applied to tainted wine, and these wines evaluated chemically and sensorially. Both white and red wines treated with oak chips had strong oak characteristics, which masked the Harmonia axyridis-associated aroma and flavour attributes. In red wine, asparagus/bell pepper characteristics were decreased by bentonite and charcoal treatments. Only activated charcoal significantly decreased methoxypyrazine levels and only in white wine.
Resumo:
Exchange reactions between molecular complexes and excess acid
or base are well known and have been extensively surveyed in the
literature(l). Since the exchange mechanism will, in some way
involve the breaking of the labile donor-acceptor bond, it follows
that a discussion of the factors relating to bonding in molecular complexes
will be relevant.
In general, a strong Lewis base and a strong Lewis acid form a
stable adduct provided that certain stereochemical requirements are
met.
A strong Lewis base has the following characteristics (1),(2)
(i) high electron density at the donor site.
(ii) a non-bonded electron pair which has a low ionization potential
(iii) electron donating substituents at the donor atom site.
(iv) facile approach of the site of the Lewis base to the
acceptor site as dictated by the steric hindrance of the
substituents.
Examples of typical Lewis bases are ethers, nitriles, ketones,
alcohols, amines and phosphines.
For a strong Lewis acid, the following properties are important:(
i) low electron density at the acceptor site.
(ii) electron withdrawing substituents. (iii) substituents which do not interfere with the close
approach of the Lewis base.
(iv) availability of a vacant orbital capable of accepting
the lone electron pair of the donor atom.
Examples of Lewis acids are the group III and IV halides such
(M=B, AI, Ga, In) and MX4 - (M=Si, Ge, Sn, Pb).
The relative bond strengths of molecular complexes have been
investigated by:-
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v]
(vi)
dipole moment measurements (3).
shifts of the carbonyl peaks in the IIIR. (4) ,(5), (6) ..
NMR chemical shift data (4),(7),(8),(9).
D.V. and visible spectrophotometric shifts (10),(11).
equilibrium constant data (12), (13).
heats of dissociation and heats of reactions (l~),
(16), (17), (18), (19).
Many experiments have bben carried out on boron trihalides in
order to determine their relative acid strengths. Using pyridine,
nitrobenzene, acetonitrile and trimethylamine as reference Lewis
bases, it was found that the acid strength varied in order:RBx3 >
BC1
3 >BF 3
• For the acetonitrile-boron trihalide and trimethylamine
boron trihalide complexes in nitrobenzene, an-NMR study (7) showed
that the shift to lower field was. greatest for the BB~3 adduct ~n~
smallest for the BF 3 which is in agreement with the acid strengths. If electronegativities of the substituents were the only
important effect, and since c~ Br ,one would expect
the electron density at the boron nucleus to vary as BF3