The flavanones, a type of

flavonoid Flavonoids (or bioflavonoids; from the Latin word ''flavus'', meaning yellow, their color in nature) are a class of polyphenolic secondary metabolites found in plants, and thus commonly consumed in the diets of humans. Chemically, flavonoids ...

s, are various

aromatic In organic chemistry, aromaticity is a chemical property describing the way in which a conjugated system, conjugated ring of unsaturated bonds, lone pairs, or empty orbitals exhibits a stabilization stronger than would be expected from conjugati ...

, colorless

ketone In organic chemistry, a ketone is an organic compound with the structure , where R and R' can be a variety of carbon-containing substituents. Ketones contain a carbonyl group (a carbon-oxygen double bond C=O). The simplest ketone is acetone ( ...

s derived from flavone that often occur in plants as

glycoside In chemistry, a glycoside is a molecule in which a sugar is bound to another functional group via a glycosidic bond. Glycosides play numerous important roles in living organisms. Many plants store chemicals in the form of inactive glycosides. ...

List of flavanones

* Blumeatin * Butin * Dichamanetin * Eriodictyol * Hesperetin * Hesperidin * Homoeriodictyol * Isosakuranetin * Naringenin * Naringin * Pinocembrin * Poncirin * Sakuranetin * Sakuranin * Sterubin * Pinostrobin

Metabolism

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

Flavanone 4-reductase In enzymology, a flavanone 4-reductase () is an enzyme that catalysis, catalyzes the chemical reaction :(2S)-flavan-4-ol + NADP+ \rightleftharpoons (2S)-flavanone + NADPH + H+ Thus, the two substrate (biochemistry), substrates of this enzyme are ...

is an enzyme that uses (2''S'')-

flavan-4-ol The flavan-4-ols (3-deoxyflavonoids) are flavone-derived Alcohol (chemistry), alcohols and a family of flavonoids. Flavan-4-ols are colorless precursor compounds that polymerize to form red phlobaphene pigments. They can be found in the sorghum. Gl ...

and NADP⁺ to produce (2''S'')-flavanone, NADPH, and H⁺.

Synthesis

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

References

External links

* {{Flavanone