The article reports the assessment of qualitative, physical and chemical properties of the alcohol distillate of anise (Pimpinella anisum L.) obtained by simple distillation. By physicalchemical analysis an alcoholic grade of 60 to 61.9 º G.L was obtained, density from 0.907 to 0.911 g/mL, refractive index of 1.3622, freezing point lower than -10ºC, boiling point of 85 at 87 °C, acidity of 5,138 mg/100 mL and 27.05 % ester content. In the spectroscopic tests it was determined that the distillate has 1,371 mg/L of trans-anethole and 4,397 mg/L of p-anisaldehyde. According to thin layer chromatography analysis, where toluene:ethyl acetate (93: 7) was used as a mobile phase and silica gel 60 F254 chromate plates as a stationary phase, an Rf of 0.86 and 0.48 was reported for the mobile phases, which indicates the high presence of trans-anethole; the p-anisaldehyde was not detected. In the...

In this research work, it was evaluated the quality of the green anise (P. anisum L.) alcoholic distillate obtained by fractional distillation in a column of one, two and three plates; which is an intermediate product for the production of aniseed. The production process involved the mixture of schnapps and green anise grains for subsequent maceration. The macerated was distilled in a fractional column pot still. The evaluation methodology included organoleptic, physicochemical, spectroscopic (UV-visible) and chromatographic (TLC, HPLC and GC/ MS) analysis. In order to obtain five samples for each column size (one, two and three plates), five production runs were carried. In general, the alcoholic distillate of green anise had characterized by the high presence of carbonyl compounds, and the moderate presence of unsaturated compounds and carbohydrates. The analysis of TLC, HPLC and GC/MS...