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(organic chemistry, obsolete) The part of a molecule that imparts sweetness to the substance.
Instead of attributing the sweet taste of a given compound to one factor, the glucogene (Cohn) or glucophor, as we prefer to call it, we maintain that it is due to two distinct factors, a glucophore and an auxogluc. Any glucophore will form a sweet compound with any auxogluc.
Early structure-taste theories attempted to identify certain common structural features of tastants and to attribute a specific taste to these […] Altogether six glucophores and nine auxoglucs were defined.
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Auxogluc means (organic chemistry, obsolete) The part of a molecule that imparts sweetness to the substance.
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Instead of attributing the sweet taste of a given compound to one factor, the glucogene (Cohn) or glucophor, as we prefer to call it, we maintain that it is due to two distinct factors, a glucophore and an auxogluc. Any glucophore will form a sweet compound with any auxogluc.
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