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IN 1928 Dyson1 proposed a relationship between odour and molecular vibration. This hypothesis was worked out in more detail by Wright2–6, who correlated the odour of a compound with its low-frequency vibrations (below 800 cm.−1).
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BUIJS, K., SCHUTTE, C. & VERSTER, F. Absence of Correlation between Odour and Molecular Vibration. Nature 192, 751–752 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/192751b0
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