The application discloses a chiral synthesis process of an
empagliflozin intermediate, and the process comprises the following steps: dissolving a reactant I in an
organic solvent to perform chiral oxidation to
alcohol, adding a protecting agent to protect, further reducing a carbonyl in an ester group in a product, and then performing deprotection to obtain a target product, a chiral intermediate compound (S)-(+) 3-hydroxytetrahydrofuran. The application has the advantages that: the chiral
alcohol compound is obtained through the oxidation reaction of the relatively cheap
raw material under the action of the chiral
reagent, the chiral product can be obtained at a high yield, the reaction selectivity is good, the yield is high, the loss of the
raw material is reduced, the expensive chiral compound (S)-(+) 3-hydroxytetrahydrofuran is avoided to purchase, the production cost is effectively reduced, meanwhile, the steps are simple, the operation is easy, the
raw material is easy to obtain, the product is easy to process, and the application is suitable for industrial large-scale production.