Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
3-Hydroxyflavone is a chemical compound. It is the backbone of all flavonols a type of flavonoid. It is a synthetic compound which is not found naturally in plants. It serves as a model molecule as it possesses an excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) effect to serve as a fluorescent probe to study membranes for example or intermembrane proteins.
