“…During the last few decades, homo-isoflavonoids have been studied for their chemical and biochemical synthesis and medicinal application. Natural and synthetic homo-isoflavonoids have been recognized to possessvarious biological properties such as anti-fungal (Ravise & Kirkiacharian, 1978;Al Nakib et al, 1990), anti-mutagenic (Wall et al, 1989), anti-inflammatory, analgesic (Darmanaden et al, 1984;Della Loggia et al, 1989), angioprotective, anti-allergic, anti-histaminic (Kirkiacharian et al, 1989) and phosphodiesterase inhibitor (Amschler et al, 1996) activities. However, no data are available on the antiviral activity of this group of flavonoids, although their structure is closely related to known anti-picornavirus compounds such as chalcone Ro 09-0410 and flavone Ro 09-0179 (De Meyer et al, 1991;Ishitsuka et al, 1982).…”