auxogluc
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Noun[edit]
auxogluc (plural auxoglucs)
- (organic chemistry, obsolete) The part of a molecule that imparts sweetness to the substance
- 1919 June, Ernest Oertley, Rollin G. Meyers, “A New Theory Relating Constitution to Taste”, in Journal of the America Chemical Society, volume 41, number 6, page 855:
- 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.
- 2012, Trevor H. Grenby, Advances in Sweeteners, page 4:
- 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.