FLAVANONE

Chemical properties

VERY SLIGHTLY YELLOW POWDER

The Uses of FLAVANONE

Flavanone was used in HPLC coupled to electrospray ion trap mass spectrometric method for separation and detection of natural flavonoid aglycones. Silibinin, a flavanone, was used in a variety of biological functions.

The Uses of FLAVANONE

Propafenone (P757500) impurity.

What are the applications of Application

Flavanone is a natural plant flavonoid

Definition

ChEBI: The simplest member of the class of flavanones that consists of flavan bearing an oxo substituent at position 4.

Synthesis Reference(s)

Tetrahedron Letters, 29, p. 241, 1988 DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(00)80065-9

General Description

Flavanone is a white to off white powder. Monitoring of flavanone content can be useful in characterizing the authenticity of lemon juice, of measuring the adulteration of citrus juices and identifying the presence of orange juice in fruit drinks. Hesperidin is the major flavanone present in the juices and wines obtained from Robinson, Fremont and Satsuma mandarins.