flavone
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9 sectionsContents
- Intake and elimination
- Drug interactions
- Biosynthesis
- Organic chemistry
- {{anchor|Wessely-Moser rearrangement}} Wessely–Moser rearrangement
- Common flavones
- Research
- References
- External links
thumb|Molecular structure of the flavone backbone with numbers
Flavones (from Latin flavus "yellow") are a class of flavonoids based on the backbone of 2-phenylchromen-4-one (2-phenyl-1-benzopyran-4-one) (as shown in the first image of this article).