The invention provides a synthetic method of a
gemfibrozil impurity A, and belongs to the technical field of
chemical synthesis. According to the technical scheme,
gemfibrozil is used as an initial
raw material and firstly reacts with
propionyl chloride in a 1, 2-
dichloroethane environment under the
catalysis of
aluminum trichloride, a product reacts with
benzyl bromide in a DMF environment by taking
potassium carbonate as an acid-binding agent, an organic phase is collected and dissolved with
methanol, and then reduction reaction is performed with
sodium borohydride under the
catalysis of
cerium chloride heptahydrate to obtain
gemfibrozil. Collecting to obtain an oily liquid compound, dissolving the oily liquid compound in
toluene, carrying out a
dehydration reaction under the
catalysis of TsOH.H2O, carrying out a
hydrolysis reaction on the
reaction product in an isopropanol and
sodium hydroxide system, carrying out reduced pressure
distillation to remove isopropanol, carrying out acid adjustment, extracting with
ethyl acetate,
drying with
sodium sulfate, filtering, concentrating to obtain a white
solid, and finally refining and purifying to obtain the 2-(2, 4-dichlorophenyl)-1, 2, 3, 4, 5-tetramethyl-1, 3-pentanediol. A gemfibrozil
impurity A finished product is obtained. The method is short in synthetic
route, high in
process efficiency, convenient to refine and purify and high in yield and purity, and has outstanding technical advantages.