Abstract
The term phenolic compound embraces a wide range of plant substances which possess in common an aromatic ring bearing one or more hydroxyl substituents. Phenolic substances tend to be water-soluble, since they most frequently occur combined with sugar as glycosides and they are usually located in the cell vacuole. Among the natural phenolic compounds, of which over a thousand structures are known, the flavonoids form the largest group but simple monocyclic phenols, phenylpropanoids and phenolic quinones all exist in considerable numbers. Several important groups of polymeric materials in plants — the lignins, melanins and tannins — are polyphenolic and occasional phenolic units are encountered in proteins, alkaloids and among the terpenoids.
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Harborne, J.B. (1973). Phenolic Compounds. In: Phytochemical Methods. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5921-7_2
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