The invention relates to a method for preparing a cycloheptatrienone derivative, and belongs to the technical field of bioengineering. The invention provides a method for preparing a cycloheptatrienone derivative, which is based on a framework editing strategy of biological
catalysis and comprises the following steps of: performing biological
catalysis on a substrate and an auxiliary substrate by using a
phenol derivative as a substrate and
nitroalkane as an auxiliary substrate and using multi-
copper oxidase and / or a
microorganism for producing the multi-
copper oxidase as a catalyst to obtain the cycloheptatrienone derivative. The auxiliary substrate is used as a C1 unit to be inserted into the skeleton of the aromatic ring substrate for editing, so that the cycloheptatrienone derivative is generated. According to the method, multi-
copper oxidase is used as a catalyst,
nitroalkane which is simple, easy to obtain, safe and highly stable is used as a C1 unit, and a
phenol derivative is successfully converted into the cycloheptatrienone derivative. According to the method, a single carbon
insertion mediated skeleton editing biological
catalysis strategy is constructed, the strategy breaks through the limitation of a traditional
carbene insertion reaction, and the method has a great application prospect in skeleton modification in the field of chemical and biological catalysis.