Irilone is an
isoflavone
Isoflavones are a type of naturally-occurring isoflavonoids, many of which act as phytoestrogens in mammals. Isoflavones occur in many plant species, but are especially high in soybeans.
Although isoflavones and closely-related phytoestrogens ar ...
, a type of flavonoid. It can be found in ''
Trifolium pratense
''Trifolium pratense'' (from Latin prātum, meaning meadow), red clover, is a herbaceous species of flowering plant in the bean family, Fabaceae. It is native to the Old World, but planted and naturalised in many other regions.
Description
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'' (red clover), in ''
Iris unguicularis
''Iris unguicularis'' ( syn. ''Iris stylosa''), the Algerian iris, is a rhizomatous flowering plant in the genus ''Iris'', native to Algeria, Greece, Turkey, Western Syria, and Tunisia. It grows to , with grassy evergreen leaves, producing pale l ...
'' and in ''
Iris germanica''.
[Lipase-catalyzed regioselective protection/deprotection of hydroxyl groups of the isoflavone irilone isolated from Iris germanica. Nighat Nazir, Surrinder Koul, Mushtaq Ahmad Qurishi, Subhash Chandra Taneja and Ghulam Nabi Qazi, Biocatalysis and Biotransformation, 2 December 2008, 1029–2446, Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 118–123, ]
References
Isoflavones
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