The Handbook of Natural Flavonoids (2 Volume Set) [Hardcover]

Jeffrey B. Harborne (Editor), Herbert Baxter (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 29, 1999 | ISBN-10: 047195893X | ISBN-13: 978-0471958932 | Edition: 2 Volume Set

Flavonoids are a large and important group of natural products derived from 'flavone'. Some flavonoids are intensely coloured, providing a spectrum of colours from red to blue in flowers, fruit and leaves. Other flavonoids are essentially colourless, producing the 'whiteness' of white flowers. Besides their contribution to plant colour, flavonoids have a variety of other roles in the growth and development of plants. Leaf flavonoids provide protection from the potential damage of UVB radiation. Certain flavanones are formed as antifungal barriers in plant leaves in response to microbial infection and others play an important part in plant reproduction. Flavonoids also exhibit a wide range of biological properties including anti-microbial, insecticidal and oestrogenic activities. Edited by one of the world's acknowledged leading researchers in flavonoid chemistry and biochemistry, this book is the essential guide to the chemical structure and function of all known flavonoids and contains full references, CAS numbers, chemical structures, molecular formulae and several extensive indexes. The Handbook of Natural Flavonoids is the definitive reference to this large and important group of natural products for researchers in pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry, plant biochemistry and organic chemistry.

Editorial Reviews

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"It is an outstanding work and a valuable addition to any private research and scientific library. I also found it a wonderful work for browsing and looking at the multitude of flavonoids which have been isolated in the last decades." (Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Vol 75, 2001)

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Flavonoids are a large and important group of natural products derived from 'flavone'. Some flavonoids are intensely coloured, providing a spectrum of colours from red to blue in flowers, fruit and leaves. Other flavonoids are essentially colourless, producing the 'whiteness' of white flowers. Besides their contribution to plant colour, flavonoids have a variety of other roles in the growth and development of plants. Leaf flavonoids provide protection from the potential damage of UVB radiation. Certain flavanones are formed as antifungal barriers in plant leaves in response to microbial infection and others play an important part in plant reproduction. Flavonoids also exhibit a wide range of biological properties including anti-microbial, insecticidal and oestrogenic activities. Edited by one of the world's acknowledged leading researchers in flavonoid chemistry and biochemistry, this book is the essential guide to the chemical structure and function of all known flavonoids and contains full references, CAS numbers, chemical structures, molecular formulae and several extensive indexes. The Handbook of Natural Flavonoids is the definitive reference to this large and important group of natural products for researchers in pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry, plant biochemistry and organic chemistry.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1800 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 2 Volume Set edition (June 29, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 047195893X
• ISBN-13: 978-0471958932
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.6 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,014,123 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Someone Interested in Flavonoids, August 14, 2009

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V. Ferchaud (Baton Rouge, Louisiana United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Handbook of Natural Flavonoids (2 Volume Set) (Hardcover)

The Handbook to Flavonoids Pigments (Volume 1) is very informative. It's like having the Bible to Flavonoids. I have not come across any other handbooks of Flavonoids that would even come close to the 6,000 kinds.