The invention relates to a purification method of
shikimic acid, in particular to a method for simply and conveniently extracting and purifying
shikimic acid from Chinese star anise. The invention aims to solve the technical problems of high
shikimic acid loss, complicated and time-consuming operation and high cost in the existing method for purifying shikimic acid in Chinese star anise, and provides a method for purifying shikimic acid in Chinese star anise. The method comprises the following steps: 1) extraction: crushing and sieving a Chinese star anise
raw material, adding water-saturatedn-butyl
alcohol, heating, stirring for extraction, and carrying out suction
filtration on an extraction solution to obtain a Chinese
star anise extract liquid; 2) purification: concentrating the Chinese
star anise extract liquid under reduced pressure, standing for
precipitation and
crystallization, and performing suction
filtration to obtain a first filtrate and a precipitate A; leaching the precipitate A with water saturated n-butyl
alcohol, combining the leacheate and the first filtrate, concentrating under reduced pressure, and standing for
crystallization to obtain a coarse
crystal B; and3) recrystallization: completely dissolving the coarse
crystal B with
ethanol, adding
activated carbon for decolorization, carrying out vacuum concentration, standing for
crystallization, and dryingto obtain a shikimic acid fine product with the purity of more than or equal to 98%.