The Flavonoids: Indispensable Additions to a Recent Coverage

Abstract

While the flavonoids are biosynthetically and constitutionally a homogeneous group of compounds, the neoflavonoids, as presently defined, may be biosynthetically and are constitutionally a heterogeneous group. Biogenetic considerations which lead to these conclusions and reviews on occurrence, structural elucidation and synthesis are presented for 1,3‐diarylpropanes and flavans (flavonoids), as well as for cinnamylphenols and 2‐aryl‐3‐methylbenzofurans (neoflavonoids), with the purpose of providing addenda to the 1975 monograph, The Flavonoids, edited by Harborne, Mabry and Mabry for Chapman and Hall, London.