The invention discloses a
croton acylated catapol derivative which is prepared by esterifying
catalpol and crotonic anhydride. The invention provides a corresponding preparation method and application, and the preparation method comprises the following steps: 1) dissolving
catalpol into
triethylamine, adding a catalyst 4-dimethylaminopyridine, adding crotonic anhydride under protection of nitrogengas, reacting for 12-36 hours at a temperature of 30-90 DEG C, and
drying triethylamine by distilling to obtain a product, wherein a
molar ratio of crotonic anhydride to
catalpol is (6-18) to 1, anda
molar ratio of 4-dimethylaminopyridine to catalpol is 1 to (9.5-10.5); and 2) dissolving the product in the step 1) into
dichloromethane, adding an alkaline agent, standing and layering, discardingan upper-layer water phase,
drying an organic phase to remove water,
drying dichloromethane by distilling, purifying and separating, evaporating-drying, and filtering to obtain the catapol derivative.The catapol derivative has good anti-
ageing activity, improves blood-brain
barrier permeability of catapol, and has an esterification rate of 99.16%.