The invention discloses a preparation method of 3-
hydroxymethyl cefotaxime, which is characterized by comprising the following steps: adding
cefotaxime to
purified water at
room temperature, adjusting the pH, adding
cephalosporin C deacetylase, and maintaining the pH when the pH is maintained. When unchanged, the
cephalosporin C deacetylase is filtered off, the filtrate is collected, the
mixed solution of an inorganic acid and an
organic solvent is added dropwise, the pH is adjusted to crystallize, the
crystal is grown, filtered, and dried to obtain 3-hydroxymethylcefotaxime. The invention uses
cefotaxime as
raw material, adopts biological
enzyme method, avoids the use of
chemical synthesis methods, has few types of solvents,
low toxicity and
environmental protection, mild
reaction conditions, simple steps, high product conversion rate, and simple and easy-to-control operations. The yield of the target product can reach 74%, and the purity can reach up to 97.6%. It fills the blank of preparing the
impurity by biological
enzymatic synthesis method, which is beneficial to the subsequent
structure analysis and pharmacological research, and has important theoretical significance and practical application value for improving the quality of
cefotaxime sodium and reducing the risk of clinical
drug use.