The invention relates to the technical field of medicines, in particular to a preparation method of degraded impurities in a raltitrexed preparation, which comprises 117g of
aldehyde hydrate, 752 g of
anhydrous Na2SO4, 70g of p-
toluidine, 68ml of concentrated
hydrochloric acid, 72g of
hydroxylamine hydrochloride, 339ml of concentrated
sulfuric acid, 125ml of
methanol, 261.7 ml of H2O, 747.8 ml of NaOH solution, 20g of
thioacetamide, 4785ml of absolute ethyl
alcohol, 32.5 g of NaHo, 5g of
activated carbon, 25.6 g of NBS, 0.32 g of toluyl
peroxide, 25.6 g of NBS, 3720ml of CHCl, 441g of L-
glutamic acid, 542ml of SOCl and 50g of thiophenecarboxaldehyde. According to the method, the 5-amino group of the intermediate 4 can be protected by adopting
acetic anhydride, the
protecting group can be removed from
hydrochloric acid, the reaction condition is mild, the
reagent price is low, and the
toxicity is low. The method avoids the defect that a
route 3 adopts Boc2O protection to remove a
protecting group in a strong acid environment of
trifluoroacetic acid, and particularly adopts a process of condensation,
hydrolysis and acylating chlorination of an N-
methylation product and NBS and condensation of the N-
methylation product and L-
glutamic acid diethyl ester, the next-step reaction can be carried out without purification of an intermediate, so that the post-treatment process is greatly simplified, the labor intensity is reduced, and the yield is remarkably improved.