As part of the series Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry, this volume titled BioactiveHeterocycles
II presents comprehensive and up-to-date reviews on selected
topics concerning flavonoids andanthocyanins in plants, andheterocycles such
as bioactive phenothiazines, phenoxazines, and related compounds. The volume
is separated into two sections mainly concentrating on these two topics.
There are abundant and diverse flavonoids with carbohydrates and lipids,
alkaloids (betalain alkaloids and other alkaloids), phenols (chromones, coumarins,
lignans, quinines, and other phenolics), terpenoids (monoterpenoids,
sesquiterpene lactones, triperpenoid saponins, carotenoids, and other terpenoids),
and minerals as micronutritional phytochemicals in fruits and vegetables
of our daily diets. Among these phytochemicals, the flavonoids have
specific functionality in relation to age-related diseases such as hypertension,
diabetes, cardiac infarction, cataracts, and cancer. The authors of each chapter
in the first section have presented their evidence in relation to the mechanism
of the preventative and therapeutic ability of the compounds.