The invention discloses a method for preparing
phenytoin sodium, which comprises the following steps: sequentially adding
benzoin and
ferric trichloride into an
aqueous solution of
alcohol, stirring and heating to
reflux, cooling and filtering to obtain a
phenytoin sodium intermediate 1; carrying out
reflux reaction on the intermediate 1 and
urea under alkaline conditions, adding
purified water, filtering to remove impurities, neutralizing filtrate with
hydrochloric acid, crystallizing and filtering to obtain
phenytoin; sequentially adding phenytoin,
sodium hydroxide and a low-boiling-point
solvent, carrying out heating
reflux reaction, cooling to
room temperature after the reaction is ended, filtering, and
drying to constant weight in a
nitrogen-vacuum
system at
room temperature to obtain phenytoin sodium; the method has the beneficial effects that
ferric trichloride is used as an
oxidizing agent, so that the method is energy-saving and environment-friendly, and the prepared intermediate 1 has few impurities; the finished product is prepared only by using a volatile
solvent, is easy to remove and does not need to be dried by a
drying oven,
nitrogen-vacuum is used for
drying at
room temperature, the
energy consumption is low, no high-temperature destroyed impurities are generated, the impurities are few, and the purity is high; the method has the advantages of cheap and easily available raw materials, simple operation and few three wastes.