{{Short description|Class of chemical compounds}} [[File:Flavanone num.svg|thumb|right|Flavanone skeleton with locants]] The '''flavanones''', a type of flavonoids, are various aromatic, colorless ketones derived from flavone that often occur in plants as glycosides.<ref>{{cite web|title=flavanone|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flavanone|website=Merriam-Webster|access-date=17 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{citation|title=Webster's New World College Dictionary|date=2014|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company|edition=Fifth|chapter-url=http://www.yourdictionary.com/flavanone|access-date=17 July 2017|chapter=flavanones|via=YourDictionary.com}}</ref>
==List of flavanones== * Blumeatin * Butin * Dichamanetin * Eriodictyol * Hesperetin * Hesperidin * Homoeriodictyol * Isosakuranetin *Kolaflavanone * 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 is an enzyme that uses (2''S'')-flavan-4-ol and NADP<sup>+</sup> to produce (2''S'')-flavanone, NADPH, and H<sup>+</sup>.
== Synthesis == Numerous methods exist for the enantioselective chemical and biochemical synthesis of flavanones and related compounds.<ref>{{cite journal | pmid = 22876166 | year = 2012 | last1 = Nibbs | first1 = AE | last2 = Scheidt | first2 = KA | title = Asymmetric Methods for the Synthesis of Flavanones, Chromanones, and Azaflavanones | volume = 2012 | issue = 3 | pages = 449–462 | doi = 10.1002/ejoc.201101228 | pmc = 3412359 | journal = European Journal of Organic Chemistry}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{Commonscat-inline|Flavanones}}
{{Flavonoids}} {{Flavanone}}
Category:Flavanones