The invention discloses a method for carrying out carbalkoxylation
acylation on
fluorouracil compound with an active
coupling agent, and applications thereof in synthesizing
capecitabine. The method comprises the steps of carrying out N-4 site
acylation reaction of
coupling agent shown as the formula (1) and
fluorouracil complex shown as the formula (8), introducing active carbonyl at N-4 site to obtain acylate, directly reacting the acylate with
alcohol or
phenol without separation, and carrying out N-4 site carbalkoxylation
acylation reaction, thus obtaining carbalkoxylation acylate of
fluorouracil compound. The carbalkoxylation acylation method can be used for preparing
capecitabine. The method conducts acylation and carbalkoxylation acylation on
cytidine by adopting
coupling agent and
alcohol or
phenol, thus avoiding use of chlorocarbonic ester or
phosgene acylating agent, being used for preparing
capecitabine, and being stable and easy to obtain raw materials, high in product purity, safe and environment-friendly for operation environment, and easy for industrial operation.