Original scientific paper

Volatile components from aerial parts of Centaurea spinosociliata Seenus ssp. cristata (Bartl.) Dostál and Centaurea spinosociliata Seenus ssp. spinosociliata growing wild in Croatia

Carmen Formisano ; Dipartimento di Chimica delle Sostanze Naturali, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Via Domenico Montesano 49, I-80131 Napoli, Italy
Felice Senatore ; Dipartimento di Chimica delle Sostanze Naturali, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Via Domenico Montesano 49, I-80131 Napoli, Italy
Svetlana Bancheva ; Institute of Botany, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str. 23, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
Maurizio Bruno ; Dipartimento di Chimica Organica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Parco d’Orleans II, I-90128 Palermo, Italy
Sergio Rosselli ; Dipartimento di Chimica Organica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Parco d’Orleans II, I-90128 Palermo, Italy

Abstract

The paper reports on the volatile components oil from aerial parts of two Asteraceae growing
wild in Croatia: Centaurea spinosociliata ssp. cristata (syn. Centaurea cristata Bartl. subsp. rabenhorstiana
(Sch.Bip.) Nyman) (CSC) and C. spinosociliata ssp. spinosociliata (CSS). The volatile components
were obtained by hydrodistillation from selected plants and were determined by the GC-MS system on
two fused-silica capillary columns of different polarity. The oil content was 0.08 % (CSC) and 0.07 %
(CSS) on a dry weight basis. Altogether 73 compounds were identified accounting for 90.8 % (CSC) and
92.8 % (CSS) of the total oil, that were characterized mainly by hydrocarbons (37.9 %; 30.4 %), sesquiterpene
hydrocarbons (14.1 %; 29.1 %), oxygenated sesquiterpenes (22.2 %; 13.1 %). The major components
of the samples were heptacosane (11.2 %; 12.6 %), cyclosativene (2.1 %; 6.4 %), caryophyllene
oxide (10.2 %; 4.7 %). Monoterpenes, fatty acids and phenolic compounds were absent or present in low
amount in both oils. The chemotaxonomy of the subgenus Acrolophus is briefly discussed.

Keywords

Centaurea spinosociliata ssp. cristata; C. spinosociliata ssp. spinosociliata; Asteraceae; volatile components; heptacosane; cyclosativene; caryophyllene oxide; GC-MS

Hrčak ID:

62644

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/62644

Publication date:

1.12.2010.

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