The preferable structural feature for sweetness is a lipophilic moiety, e.g., a fiveor six-membered ring with a polar substituent containing an A-H/B system outside the ring. In ketoses, this unit is probably the 1,2-glycol. If a third feature (the lipophilic, 7, site) is required for the attainment
Structural functions of taste in the sugar series
โ Scribed by Michael G. Lindley; Gordon G. Birch
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 408 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5142
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