The invention provides a preparation method of
spirolactone, and relates to the technical field of
organic synthesis. The preparation method of
spirolactone provided by the invention comprises the following steps: taking 4-androstene-3, 17-
diketone as a
raw material, carrying out
nucleophilic addition reaction on the 4-androstene-3, 17-
diketone and an organic
zinc reagent 3-tert-butoxy-3-oxypropyl
zinc bromide, then carrying out
elimination-lactonization under the
catalysis of
trifluoroacetic acid, and completing lactonization while removing tert-butyl; then sequentially carrying out etherification reaction and oxidative
dehydrogenation reaction to obtain canrenone, and finally carrying out
addition reaction on canrenone and
thioacetic acid to obtain
spirolactone. The preparation method provided by the invention provides a novel construction method of 21-
carboxylic acid-gamma-
lactone, the method is good in specificity, the total
mass yield of spirolactone is greater than 92%, and the total
mass yield is high; moreover, the HPLC purity of the spirolactone prepared by the preparation method provided by the invention is greater than 99.7%, which is far higher than the purity of the spirolactone prepared by the existing process.