1IntroductionChiral recognition of substrates is one of the most characteristic phenomena of biological activity. And one of the most fundamental biological activities of chemical substances is their smell. In 1991, Linda Buck and Richard Axel[1] discovered a large multigene family that en codes odorant receptors, for which they were awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology. These odorant receptors are highly homologous,consist of ca. 320 amino acids, and show a heptahelical transmembrane structure as typical for G-protein-coupled receptors. In the human genome, 347 putative full-length olfactory receptor genes have been identified,which allow via characteristic activation patterns of the associated glomeruli the differentiation of more than 10 000 odorants. Since the odorant receptors are built from enantiomerically pure amino acids, they are themselves chiral. Consequently, one would expect a strong diastereomeric interaction, and enantiomeric pairs of odorants should thus differ significantly in both their odor character and their strengths or odor threshold.