This paper reviews the synthetic development of daidzein and genistein, including their intermediates deoxybenzion. Synthetic methods of glycitin is also briefly introduced in this paper.

Alkoxy benzoic acids are important intermediates in organic synthesis, applied in various areas of the fine chemical industry, such as herb antibacterial, pharmaceutical, pesticide, dye.

Isoflavones are widely occurring compounds, which have a series of biological activities. Thesyntheti (?). Methods of isoflavones by using one-carbon synthons to deoxybenzoins were pre-sented.