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That's interesting. Do you have a reference?
by lisper 5y ago
That's interesting. Do you have a reference?
- smaddox 5y agoNo, sorry. I don't remember where I first read about this, but it was a story about a perfume manufacturer successfully using IR gas chromatography to synthetically recreate an expensive perfume component (or something like that), where other techniques had failed. I don't know if there has been any subsequent research publications that definitively demonstrate what's going on. It's possible that shape matters, too, as it does for other receptors. Either way, quantum mechanics is still critical for understanding the mechanism.
- lisper 5y agoFound this: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-21150046 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-21150046 Apparently, it's controversial.