Sensory Perception of Non‐Deuterated and Deuterated Organic Compounds

• Published in: Chemistry : a European journal Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 1046 - 1056
• Main Authors: Salthammer, Tunga, Monegel, Friederike, Schulz, Nicole, Uhde, Erik, Grimme, Stefan, Seibert, Jakob, Hohm, Uwe, Palm, Wolf‐Ulrich
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 13.01.2021; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Acetone; Acetone - analysis; Acetone - chemistry; Acids; Animals; Caprylates - analysis; Caprylates - chemistry; Chemical compounds; Chemistry; computational chemistry; Deuteration; Deuterium - analysis; Deuterium - chemistry; Dogs; human subjects; Isotope effect; isotopologues; Liquid phases; Octanoic acid; Odor; odor perception; Odorants - analysis; Olfaction; Olfactory Perception; Organic Chemicals - analysis; Organic Chemicals - chemistry; Organic compounds; Perception; Quantum chemistry; Sensory evaluation; Sensory perception; Smell; Sniffer dogs; Statistical mechanics; trained sniffer dogs; Working Dogs; human subjects; isotopologues; trained sniffer dogs; computational chemistry; odor perception

The chemical background of olfactory perception has been subject of intensive research, but no available model can fully explain the sense of smell. There are also inconsistent results on the role of the isotopology of molecules. In experiments with human subjects it was found that the isotope effec...