Abate Agnese, Brenna Elisabetta, Fuganti Claudio, Gatti Francesco G, Serra Stefano
Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali ed Ingegneria Chimica del Politecnico, Istituto CNR per la Chimica del Riconoscimento Molecolare, Via Mancinelli 7, I-20131 Milano.
Chem Biodivers. 2004 Dec;1(12):1888-98. doi: 10.1002/cbdv.200490145.
Our sense of smell is enantioselective. This review reports interesting examples of single stereoisomers of natural and synthetic odorants, prepared via bioorganic routes, that support this statement. This article is the summary of a talk given at the Flavours & Fragrances 2004 conference in Manchester at the MCC/UMIST, 12-14 May, 2004.