Flavanone

<h2 id="list-of-flavanones">List of flavanones</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Blumeatin/YokfcYg1">Blumeatin</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Butin_(molecule)/mYQLk4Yr">Butin</a></li>
<li>Dichamanetin</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Eriodictyol/YA7dXnTX">Eriodictyol</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Hesperetin/Evv28WfB">Hesperetin</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Hesperidin/nPPl1JEp">Hesperidin</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Homoeriodictyol/JTJsJKso">Homoeriodictyol</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Isosakuranetin/MECtQTrg">Isosakuranetin</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Naringenin/7tnKVrbd">Naringenin</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Naringin/3ET37wzx">Naringin</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Pinocembrin/zyYJnrD8">Pinocembrin</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Poncirin/G8URxJde">Poncirin</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Sakuranetin/CYMITsqt">Sakuranetin</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Sakuranin/Pc2AbUrF">Sakuranin</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Sterubin/aeD7DRPR">Sterubin</a></li>
<li>Pinostrobin</li></ul>
<h2 id="metabolism">Metabolism</h2>
<p>The enzyme <a href="/facts/Chalcone_isomerase/9VPa49pD">chalcone isomerase</a> uses a <a href="/facts/Chalconoid/UGo4KFQU">chalcone</a>-like compound to produce a flavanone.
</p><p><a href="/facts/Flavanone_4-reductase/Y55XoTe6">Flavanone 4-reductase</a> is an enzyme that uses (2<i>S</i>)-<a href="/facts/Flavan-4-ol/VFQquhrb">flavan-4-ol</a> and NADP+ to produce (2<i>S</i>)-flavanone, NADPH, and H+.
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<h2 id="synthesis">Synthesis</h2>
<p>Numerous methods exist for the enantioselective chemical and biochemical synthesis of flavanones and related compounds.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li> Media related to Flavanones at Wikimedia Commons</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"flavanone". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 17 July 2017. <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flavanone" target="_blank">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flavanone</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"flavanones", Webster's New World College Dictionary (Fifth ed.), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2014, retrieved 17 July 2017 – via YourDictionary.com <a href="http://www.yourdictionary.com/flavanone" target="_blank">http://www.yourdictionary.com/flavanone</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>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. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3412359" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3412359</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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