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Essential oil from the aerial parts of Centaurea cuneifolia Sibth. & Sm. and C. euxina Velen., two species growing wild in Bulgaria

Antonella MaggioFelice SenatoreMaurizio BrunoSergio RosselliCarmen FormisanoSvetlana BanchevaRosa Angela Raccuglia

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beta-eudesmoloAsteraceaeBiochemistryCentaurea cuneifoliaessential oilSpathulenollaw.inventionPalmitic acidchemistry.chemical_compoundCentaurea cuneifolialawBotanyhexadecanoic acidSettore BIO/15 - Biologia FarmaceuticaChemical compositionEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsEssential oilspatulenolbiologySettore CHIM/06 - Chimica OrganicaAsteraceaechemotaxonomic significancebiology.organism_classificationchemistryChemotaxonomyCentaureaC. euxina

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Abstract The volatile constituents of the aerial parts of Centaurea cuneifolia Sibth. & Sm. and Centaurea euxina Velen. from Bulgaria were extracted by hydrodistillation and were analyzed. The main components in C. cuneifolia were β-eudesmol (26.5%) and hexadecanoic acid (17.6%). The main components in C. euxina were hexadecanoic acid (20.3%), spathulenol (10.8%) and caryophyllene oxide (6.2%). The chemotaxonomic significances with respect to other previously studied species of the same sections ( Achrolopus and Phalolepis , respectively) are discussed.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2009-10-01
10.1016/j.bse.2009.05.001http://hdl.handle.net/10447/46010