Flavanones

Flavanone

Flavanone

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The flavanones, a type of flavonoids, are various aromatic, colorless ketones derived from flavone that often occur in plants as glycosides.[1][2]

Flavanone skeleton with locants

List of flavanones

Metabolism

The enzyme chalcone isomerase uses a chalcone-like compound to produce a flavanone.

Flavanone 4-reductase is an enzyme that uses (2S)-flavan-4-ol and NADP+ to produce (2S)-flavanone, NADPH, and H+.

Synthesis

Numerous methods exist for the enantioselective chemical and biochemical synthesis of flavanones and related compounds.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "flavanone". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  2. [2]
    "flavanones", Webster's New World College Dictionary (Fifth ed.), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2014, retrieved 17 July 2017 – via YourDictionary.com
  3. [3]
    Nibbs, AE; Scheidt, KA (2012). "Asymmetric Methods for the Synthesis of Flavanones, Chromanones, and Azaflavanones". European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2012 (3): 449–462. doi:10.1002/ejoc.201101228. PMC 3412359. PMID 22876166.
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