Classification of Phenolic Compounds in Plants

By Dimitrios Tsimogiannis, V. Oreopoulou. Polyphenols in Plants, 2019

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Abstract The phenolic compounds are a vast class of secondary metabolites performing several roles for the defense and survival of plants. Their structure varies extensively, and thus they have been classified into groups according to the pattern of their basic skeletons. However, the resulting classes are also numerous and, furthermore, certain recently discovered compounds do not match the structural criteria to be included in the existing classes. For these reasons, Harbone attempted to modify the classification system. The phenolic compounds were divided into six classes; each class was further divided into categories and families of compounds to fully hierarchize their structural differences. The first five classes are characterized by an increasing complexity of the basic skeletons of the members, and the sixth class includes the so-called hybrid phenolics as a separate group of compounds.

Subfields: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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