The invention relates to a new technique for purifying and preparing
eptifibatide. At present, the
eptifibatide is separated, purified and produced by adopting opposite phase
high pressure liquid
chromatography. However,
mass production is not easy to realize, and the equipment are expensive. Separation and purification are carried out by the method by applying two
solvent systems which are not dissolved in each other and make epicyclic motion at high speed in a
chromatographic column tube; the
processing steps comprises: a.
synthetic crude product of the
eptifibatide is dissolved by
solvent; b. the dissolved crude product of the eptifibatide is separated and purified by high-speed
centrifugation separation
chromatography (FCPC), and is tested by a
uv detector from the distance of 230nm, so that target peak is collected by subsection; c. the collected
cut fraction is tested by HPLC, wherein, the
cut fraction with the purity higher than 98% is bended to be treated by the next step, and the
cut fraction with the purity lower than 98% is recycled and purified again; d.
ion exchange is carried out on the cut fraction with qualified purity to remove
trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), and then the cut fraction is transformed into
acetic acid eptifibatide. The new technique has no
irreversible adsorption and the advantages of no loss of sample, no
pollution, high speed and high efficiency, and is suitable for
mass production.