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Essential Oil Composition of Endemic Centaurea tchihatcheffii Fisch and Mey. from Turkey
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Essential Oil Composition of Endemic Centaurea tchihatcheffii Fisch and Mey. from Turkey

Ayhan Altintas, Ufuk Koca, Betul Demirci and K. Husnu Can Baser
Asian journal of chemistry, Vol.22(6), pp.4711-4716
01/06/2010

Abstract

Chemistry Chemistry, Multidisciplinary Physical Sciences Science & Technology
The essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation from endemic Centaurea tchihatcheffii Fisch. & Mey. (Asteraceae) from Turkey was analyzed by gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS), simultaneously. Main constituents of the oil were found as caryophyllene oxide (15.1 %), carvacrol (14.7 %), acetophenone (6.2 %) and spathulenol (5.3 %).

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