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The essential oil composition of Centaurea immanuelis-loewii Degen growing wild in Bulgaria and chemotaxonomy of section Acrocentron

Svetlana BanchevaMaurizio BrunoNatale Badalamenti

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Section (typography)Plant ScienceAsteraceaeCentaurea immanuelis-loewii01 natural sciencesBiochemistryAnalytical Chemistrylaw.inventionlawBotanySection AcrocentronChemical compositionEssential oilbiology010405 organic chemistryOrganic ChemistryAsteraceaebiology.organism_classification0104 chemical sciencesChemotaxonomy010404 medicinal & biomolecular chemistryEssential oilsCentaureaChemotaxonomyComposition (visual arts)GC-MS

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In the present study, the chemical composition of the essential oil from aerial parts of the Balkan endemic, Centaurea immanuelis-loewii Degen (sect. Acrocentron, Asteraceae), collected in Bulgaria was evaluated by GC-MS. The main components of the oil were β-caryophyllene (23.2%), germacrene D (13.7%) and caryophyllene oxide (12.4%). Furthermore, a complete literature review on the composition of the essential oils of all the other taxa of Centaurea, belonging to section Acrocentron, studied so far, was performed and the chemotaxonomical variations in the composition of the essential oils is discussed.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2021-01-01Natural Product Research
https://doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2021.1931190