Preparation method of high-purity strontium ranelate

Abstract

The invention relates to a preparation method of high-purity strontium ranelate. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: (a) reacting acetonedicarboxylic acid diethyl ester with malononitrile in the presence of an acid-binding agent and ethanol to generate an active intermediate, and after a cosolvent is added, carrying out cyclization reaction on the active intermediate and sulphur under the reflux of ethanol to prepare 5-amino-4-cyano-3-(2-ethyoxyl-2-carboxymethyl)-thiophene-2-ethyl formate, i.e., an intermediate I; (b) reacting the intermediate I with a hydrocarbonylation reagent in the presence of potassium carbonate and a catalyst to prepare tetraethyl ranelate; and (c) hydrolyzing the tetraethyl ranelate in an alkali metal hydroxide solution to generate salt, adding an insoluble organic solvent to wash impurities, decoloring by using active carbon, filtering, forming strontium salt, and adjusting the pH value of the solution to obtain the strontium ranelate. The strontium ranelate prepared by the invention is high in purity, good in stability and capable of meeting the requirement of bulk drugs for purity, content and strontium content; the preparation process is low in three-waste emission and low in cost.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of medicine synthesis in the pharmaceutical field, and in particular relates to a preparation method of high-purity strontium ranelate. Background technique [0002] Strontium in strontium ranelate is an important part of human bones, which can promote the development of bones and the formation of osteoid, and has the effect of regulating calcium metabolism. The clinical data of strontium ranelate show that the drug is especially suitable for the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women, significantly reduces the risk of vertebral fractures and hip fractures, and has good clinical effects. [0003] Both current methods of preparing strontium ranelate use 5-[bis(2-ethoxy-2-carboxymethyl)amino-]-4-cyano-3-(2-ethoxy-2-carboxy Methyl) - ethyl 2-thiophenecarboxylate (referred to as tetraethyl ranelate) as an intermediate, one method is to hydrolyze tetraethyl ranelate into a salt in sodiu...

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[0007] Literature Chem Ber, 1966, 99: 94-99 uses morpholine as an acid-binding agent, reacts for more than 3 hours, and the reaction yield of intermediate I is only 42.0%, and due to the high toxicity of morpholine, it is easy to cause danger and cause harm when used in large quantities in production. Potential threat to the environment

[0008] Document Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, 1990, 47:39-46 uses diethylamine instead of morpholine, although the reaction yield of intermediate I can reach 80.0%, but it needs to consume a large amount of water to wash diethylamine to neutrality, resulting in A large amount of alkaline wastewater

[0009] Chinese patent CN102321068 also uses diethylamine as an acid-binding agent, and uses water instead of ethanol as a solvent. Although a large amount of sodium sulfide (28.1% of the mass of sulfur) can increase the solubility of sulfur in water and accelerate the reaction to a certain extent, but Due to the poor solubility of the organic matter in the reaction in water, the reaction is carried out in the water-organic two-phase, and the reaction is uneven, resulting in a decrease in the overall reaction rate; in addition, due to the poor water solubility of intermediate I, crystallization occurs immediately after the reaction, and it is easy to wrap a large amount of Inorganic salts, it is difficult to completely remove a large amount of water washing during filtration, which reduces the quality of the product, and at the same time washing with water will produce a large amount of waste water

The use of above-mentioned catalyzer, can quicken reaction speed, make reaction time be shortened to within 15h, but the purity of gained tetraethyl ranelate is all≤98.0%, single impurity≥0.5%; The tetraethyl ranelate of this purity is The strontium ranelate prepared from the intermediate is difficult to make the product quality meet the pharmaceutical requirements after repeated refining

In addition, the alkyl chains of C8-C10 quaternary ammonium salts are longer and the steric hindrance is large, resulting in low catalytic efficiency. Microorganisms produce toxicity, which affects the metabolism of various substances in the environment, and has environmental risks that cannot be ignored; while polyethylene glycol is used as a catalyst, the post-treatment needs to be extracted with ethyl acetate, boiled with 80.0% ethanol for beating, and a large amount of boiling water to wash the filter cake , will produce a large amount of waste liquid, and the environmental pressure is high; the use of crown ether or KF / Al2O3, ionic liquids as catalysts has the disadvantage of being expensive, which limits its industrial application

[0012] It is reported in the literature that the low-purity tetraethyl ranelate with a purity of ≤99.0% and a single impurity of ≥0.5% is used as a raw material. Method 1 is used to prepare strontium ranelate. It is necessary to increase the step of concentrating the organic solvent after hydrolysis into sodium salt. Increase the yield of strontium ranelate to a certain extent, but the concentration of lye increases with the decrease of solvent, which is conducive to the occurrence of side reactions, and the types of impurities that are unstable to heat increase

When the temperature rises to concentrate the solvent, the concentration of the lye increases, and if the temperature is ≥40°C, the amount of 5-decarboxylation impurities (that is, 2-[bis(carboxymethyl)amino]-3-cyano-4-thiopheneacetic acid sodium salt) increases significantly , resulting in the product purity ≤99.0% and single impurity ≥0.5% after the process is scaled up to the pilot scale, which cannot meet the purity requirements of chemical raw materials; using method 2 to prepare strontium ranelate requires boiling water or boiling organic solvent-water The mixture is refined or the filter cake is washed. On the one hand, due to the low solubility of strontium hydroxide in boiling water, the resulting product will contain strontium hydroxide solids, resulting in a product with a strontium content higher than the theoretical value of strontium ranelate. The product content is ≤98.0 %, unable to meet the content requirements of chemical raw materials, on the other hand, too high temperature is also conducive to 5-decarboxylation impurities (ie 2-[bis(carboxymethyl)amino]-3-cyano-4-thiophene acetate strontium salt ), at the same time, a large amount of waste liquid will be generated, which will bring environmental risks

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