The invention relates to the field of
analytical chemistry, and particularly discloses a method for separating alprimilast intermediate 3 and impurities by
high performance liquid chromatography, which adopts octadecylsilane chemically bonded silica as a filler, a dihydric
phosphate solution as a mobile phase A and
acetonitrile as a mobile phase B to carry out
gradient elution, all known impurities and unknown impurities in the alprimilast intermediate 3 can be effectively separated, nine impurities are effectively separated in one
chromatography, the separation degree between a main peak and an
impurity IX reaches 3.87 and is larger than 1.5, the separation degree between other impurities is larger than 1.5, specificity is good, interference of a blank
solvent and other unknown impurities is avoided, and the method is suitable for industrial production. The separation efficiency is high, the anti-interference capability is strong, the analysis speed is high, and the detection accuracy is high, so that the quality of alprimilast is effectively controlled.