“…Previous reports on the essential oil composition of Centaurea species indicate main components as caryophyllene 14,15 , spathulenol 16,17 , eudesmol [17][18][19] , germacrene 16,20-24 as sesquiterpenes; hexadecanoic acid 5,18,[25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] , tetradecanoic acid 29 , dodecanoic acid 26,29,33 as fatty acids; heptacosane 5,17,22,25,31,35,36 , tricosane 22,31,35 , pentacosane 22 , nonacosane 5 as higher alkanes and pinenes 16 , terpinenes 16 , carvacrol 29 as monoterpenes. Until now 42 taxa of Centaurea were investigated for essential oil composition from Turkey; main components of these oils were given in Table 1.…”