IN his recent article on this subject J. E. Amoore 1 ascribes the odours of substances to the size and shape of their molecules: the olfactory epithelium, he suggests, contains receptor sites of ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Stereochemical Theory of Odor ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 210 No. 2 (February 1964), p. 42 doi:10.1038 ...

Detailed structural and chemical properties are presented on the major functional classes of organic compounds, as well as nomenclature, structure-stability-reactivity relationships, and ...

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Indeed, superior elemental diversity does not compensate for the overall molecular complexity, scaffold variety, stereochemical richness, ring-system diversity and carbohydrate constituents of ...