In this study, we prepared sixteen mixtures of six components that are representative of the main categories of hydrocarbons in diesel fuels: eicosane (ECO) for alkanes, isocetane (ICE) for isoalkanes, butylcyclohexane (BCH) for cycloalkanes, 1methylnaphthalene (1MN) for aromatics, tetralin (TET) for naphthoaromatics, and methyldecanoate (MDC) for oxygenates. Fig. shows the chemical structures of these components. The first five components are pure hydrocarbons that were selected from the surrogate fuel palette defined in Ref. . The last component (MDC) is an oxygenate that represents the methyl esters found in biodiesel fuels . MDC was selected because it has a diesel-like carbon number (C11), and detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms are available for it .