“…The main thrust of QSAR studies has been in the field of drug design, but there have been several applications to the taste properties of molecules, particularly involving sweetness. The main groups of sweeteners that have been subjected to various types of QSAR studies are the nitro-and cyanoanilines (Deutsch et al, 1966;McFarland, 1971;Holtje and Kier, 1974;Iwamura, 1980;Kier, 1985;van der Heijden et al, 1985a), various aspartyl dipeptide derivatives (van der Heijden et al, 1979(van der Heijden et al, , 1985aIwamura, 1981;Miyashita et al, 1986a), oximes (perillartines) (Iwamura, 1980;van der Heijden et al, 1985b;Acton et al, 1976;Takahashi et al, 1982Takahashi et al, , 1984Zalewski, 1992), β-(3-hydroxy and 4-methoxyphenylethylbenzenes (Miyashita et al, 1989), acesulfames, tryptophans, saccharins, chlorocarbohydrates, ureas, isocoumarins (van der Heijden, 1985a, and sulfamates (Spillane and McGlinchey, 1981;Spillane et al, 1983Spillane et al, , 1994Miyashita et al, 1986b;Okuyama et al, 1988). For the latter group, which includes cyclamate (N-cyclohexylsulfamate), we have previously developed semi-QSARs using parameters measured with Corey-Pauling-Koltun (CPK) space-filling models of the R section of the sulfamates RNHSO 3 Na.…”