Over four thousand flavonoids, based on the C6-C3-C6 skeleton, have been found in plants, and are divided into several classes, i.e., anthocyanins, flavones, flavonols, flavanones, dihydroflavonols, chalcones, aurones, flavan and proanthocyanidins, isoflavonoids, biflavonoids, etc. In this review, the chemical structures of the reported flavonoid classes are introduced and their distribution in nature are described. Additionally, some recent chemotaxonomical examples using the flavonoids are also given.
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Iwashina, T. (2000). The structure and distribution of the flavonoids in plants. Journal of Plant Research. Botanical Society of Japan. https://doi.org/10.1007/pl00013940
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