“…Also known chemically as chalcones, they consist of open‐chain flavonoids in which the two aromatic rings are joined by a three‐carbon chain . They display a wide range of pharmacological properties, including cytotoxity toward cancer cell lines , antimitotic , antimutagenic and antitumor‐promoting activities, antibacterial , antiviral , anti‐inflammatory , antiulcerative , and hepatoprotective activities . They are also useful in materials science fields such as nonlinear optics , optical limiting , electrochemical sensing , Langmuir films, and photoinitiated polymerization .…”