The invention belongs to the technical field of
medicinal chemistry and green
chemical industry, and particularly relates to a green circulation method of rotundine resolution
mother liquor. According to the method, the acid
mother liquor generated after
chiral resolution of rotundine (L-
tetrahydropalmatine)
tartaric acid is used as a
raw material, separation and purification are not needed, the acid environment of the
mother liquor is directly utilized,
hydrogen peroxide is used as a green
oxidizing agent, and the target product is obtained. The method comprises the following steps: oxidizing a residual
tetrahydropalmatine mixture (including dextroisomer, unresolved racemate and lost levoisomer) in a mother solution into
palmatine salt; then, an alkaline
reducing agent is directly added into the
reaction system without separation, the
palmatine salt is reduced into racemic
tetrahydropalmatine, meanwhile, the
reducing agent or a
hydrolysate of the
reducing agent is neutralized with residual acid in the oxidation step, and self-adjustment of the pH of the
system is achieved. According to the method, a post-
treatment strategy of combining a one-pot method with a
solvent devitrification resistance is creatively adopted, and the product is directly and efficiently separated out from a
reaction system by simply adjusting pH and diluting, so that the process is greatly simplified. The method abandons the scheme of using expensive and toxic oxidants such as
iodine or N-halogenated
imide in the traditional process, has the remarkable advantages of low cost, environmental friendliness, high
atom economy, short process flow and extremely small
wastewater generation amount, and is very suitable for industrial production.