The application belongs to the technical field of chemical
pharmacy, and particularly relates to a method for preparing
dutasteride crystal form I. The method specifically comprises the following steps: S1, dissolving crude
dutasteride in
methanol; S2, adding small-molecule saturated
alkane, and distilling under stirring until no
methanol is distilled out; S3, cooling and standing the mixture to precipitate crystals; and S4, filtering, and
drying the
filter cake to obtain
dutasteride crystal form I. The method uses a
methanol-small-molecule saturated
alkane double-
solvent distillation recrystallization method, and dutasteride
crystal form I can be obtained through simple dissolving, distilling, filtering and
drying operations. The method overcomes the problems in the prior art, such as difficult control of the reaction process, easy occurrence of mixed crystals, poor
repeatability, excessive
solvent residue and the like, has the characteristics of simple
controllability, high crystal purity, good
repeatability and low
solvent residue, is suitable for large-scale production, and has a good industrial application prospect.