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There are substantial instructional videos on the Internet, which enables us to acquire knowledge for completing various tasks. However, most existing datasets for instructional video analysis have the limitations in diversity and scale, which makes them far from many real-world applications where more diverse activities occur. Moreover, it still remains a great challenge to organize and harness such data. To address these problems, we introduce a large-scale dataset called "COIN" for COmprehensive INstructional video analysis. Organized with a hierarchical structure, the COIN dataset contains 11,827 videos of 180 tasks in 12 domains (e.g., vehicles, gadgets, etc.) related to our daily life. With a new developed toolbox, all the videos are annotated effectively with a series of step descriptions and the corresponding temporal boundaries. Furthermore, we propose a simple yet effective method to capture the dependencies among different steps, which can be easily plugged into conventional proposal-based action detection methods for localizing important steps in instructional videos. In order to provide a benchmark for instructional video analysis, we evaluate plenty of approaches on the COIN dataset under different evaluation criteria. We expect the introduction of the COIN dataset will promote the future in-depth research on instructional video analysis for the community.

The syntheses and luminescent properties of three novel zinc coordination polymers containing tetrazolyl ligands are described. In situ [2+3] cycloaddition reactions of acetonitrile or p-tolylnitrile with sodium azide in the presence of Zn(ClO(4))(2) as a Lewis acid (Demko-Sharpless tetrazole synthesis method) under hydrothermal (solvothermal) reaction conditions gave [Zn(CH(3)CN(4))(2)](3)(H(2)O) (1) and [Zn(4-MPTZ)(2)] (3) [4-MPTZ = 5-(4-methylphenyl)tetrazole], respectively. On the other hand, [Zn(HCN(4))(2)] (2) was obtained by directly reacting tetrazole with Zn(OAc)(2) under hydrothermal reaction conditions. The structure of 1 shows a super-diamond-like topological network with a diamond subunit as a connecting node. For 2, a diamond-like topological network is also found, but it is 2-fold interpenetrated. The structure of 3 reveals a 2D layered network with a hexagonal net, with the adjacent layers in the network stacked in an ABAB sequence. Photoluminescence studies revealed coordination polymers 1, 2, and 3 exhibit strong blue fluorescent emissions at lambda(max) = 396, 418, and 397 nm, respectively, in the solid state at room temperature.

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