The invention relates to a trans-4-aminocyclohexanol preparation method, which specifically comprises: (1) adding p-acetamidophenol, an
organic solvent and a catalyst to a reaction container, carrying out
nitrogen displacement, introducing
hydrogen, heating, carrying out a stirring reaction, filtering the catalyst after the reaction is completely carried out, concentrating the
mother liquor, carrying out reduced pressure
distillation, and recrystallizing to obtain a pure product of p-acetamidophenol; (2) adding the pure product of p-acetamido
cyclohexanol obtained in the step (1),
sodium hydroxide and water into a reactor, heating, stirring for reaction, concentrating, filtering, dissolving with
dichloromethane for liquid separation,
drying, concentrating, pulping and filtering to obtain trans-4-aminocyclohexanol; the catalyst in the step (1) is a
palladium-carbon catalyst with the
metal content of 5%. By introducing the
palladium-carbon catalyst, the preparation method of the trans-4-aminocyclohexanol is good in
stereoselectivity, the cis-trans isomer ratio of the intermediate p-acetamido
cyclohexanol can reach 9: 91, and the obtained product is high in yield and good in purity.