The invention provides a
glycine separation and purification method, which can be widely applied to the technical field of preparation of diketopiperazine by
glycine condensation, and solves the problem of low
raw material utilization rate caused by incomplete reaction of
glycine raw materials, enrichment in
mother liquor and difficulty in purification in the existing process of preparing diketopiperazine from glycine. The glycine separation and purification method comprises the following steps: firstly, carrying out heating concentration pretreatment on a mother solution of diketopiperazine to remove
moisture in the mother solution, then adding an inorganic
copper compound, heating and stirring, concentrating and cooling, and filtering to obtain a
copper diglycinate complex; and dissolving the
copper diglycinate complex in the solution, adding acid, controlling the pH value, and filtering to obtain glycine. The whole process is easy to operate, the glycine
recovery rate is high, the purity can reach 99.5% to the maximum, the yield can reach 98.1% to the maximum, the amplification effect is not obvious during amplification, and the method has good industrial application value.