Projektnummer

0061310

Zusammenfassung

Up to now there is little to no possibility to give a relation between the molecular structure and the odour of a substance. The common tools of chemical modelling fail to answer this question, and as a consequence the level of sophistication in odour research is no higher than synthesizing substances and testing their odour by sniffing. Can we use computer linguistics to fill that gap, and finally find a relationship between the molecular structure and the odour? Molecular structural formulae are a depiction of what we chemists think is suitable to represent and talk about matter's ma...