Question

A) Does there appear to be a correlation for any smell category (fruity, minty, medicinal, putrid) between smell and functional group? What are the pros and cons?

B)Does there appear to be a correlation for any smell category (fruity, minty, medicinal, putrid)  between smell and boiling point? What are the pros and cons?

Answer 1

A) yes there is a correlation between smell and functional group. As functional group changes, smell changes. for example Alcohol has fresh, floral, mint smell, Aldehyde and ketone has smell like butter, Acid has pungent smell etc.

B) there is a correlation between smell and boiling point too Boiling point are different in same functional groups and they have different smells too. For example in alcohol, Geraniol, linalool has fresh and floral smell and Methanol has mint smell. Bu this correlation is very small as we don't see much different in all functional groups.