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which put forth that compounds must have both a hydrogen bond donor and a large hydrophobic core for sweetness to be detected biochemically. In the arena of chemosensing, Ferguson also published on
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Organic Chemistry".
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on the synthesis of Schiff base ligands used to form transition metal complexes that mimic the oxygen-carrying ability of biological proteins.
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as it relates to the structure of organic compounds. This research eventually led to several papers on the structure–taste relationship of
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