http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/12/carvone-you-can-smell-chirality/ Molecules: You'd Better Learn to Live With Them Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:54:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/12/carvone-you-can-smell-chirality/#comment-2763 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:38:28 +0000 http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/12/carvone-you-can-smell-chirality/#comment-2763 [...] All this leads up to a truly unusual thiol: grapefruit mercaptan. You’ll notice it looks like another terpene, like carvone and damascone. Grapefruit mercaptan is such a singular compound because it is a nice-smelling thiol. It’s another one I haven’t smelled, but I’m told it’s very complex and grapefruity. It’s also unique because not many things synthesize thiols on purpose (thiols being reactive and stinky - skunks are a notable exception here). [...] […] All this leads up to a truly unusual thiol: grapefruit mercaptan. You’ll notice it looks like another terpene, like carvone and damascone. Grapefruit mercaptan is such a singular compound because it is a nice-smelling thiol. It’s another one I haven’t smelled, but I’m told it’s very complex and grapefruity. It’s also unique because not many things synthesize thiols on purpose (thiols being reactive and stinky - skunks are a notable exception here). […]

]]> http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/12/carvone-you-can-smell-chirality/#comment-24 Wed, 17 May 2006 13:41:51 +0000 http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/12/carvone-you-can-smell-chirality/#comment-24 [...] Carvone (You can smell chirality!) [...] […] Carvone (You can smell chirality!) […]

]]> http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/12/carvone-you-can-smell-chirality/#comment-21 Tue, 16 May 2006 01:58:10 +0000 http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/12/carvone-you-can-smell-chirality/#comment-21 [...] Friday, we talked about about carvone. I mentioned that it comes from the same biosynthetic pathway as cholesterol. The precursor to this, as well as a number of other natural products, is isopentenyl pyrophosphate, which we’ll refer to as IPP: [...] […] Friday, we talked about about carvone. I mentioned that it comes from the same biosynthetic pathway as cholesterol. The precursor to this, as well as a number of other natural products, is isopentenyl pyrophosphate, which we’ll refer to as IPP: […]

]]> http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/12/carvone-you-can-smell-chirality/#comment-20 Fri, 12 May 2006 11:00:57 +0000 http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/12/carvone-you-can-smell-chirality/#comment-20 I would always use limonene as the example, one enantiomer smells of oranges, the other, lemons... I would always use limonene as the example, one enantiomer smells of oranges, the other, lemons…

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