The invention relates to the technical field of synthesis of
drug intermediates, in particular to a preparation method of a
posaconazole starting material SM3. CeCl3. 7H2O and
sodium borohydride are added into a compound POS-1 for an asymmetric reduction reaction to obtain a compound POS-2, the compound POS-2 reacts with 3, 5-bis (
trifluoromethyl)
benzene sulfonyl chloride to obtain a compound POS-3, hydrazine
hydrate attacks from the back side of the compound POS-3 with large steric hindrance, an SN2 reaction is carried out to obtain a compound POS-4 with specific
stereoselectivity, the compound POS-4 reacts with
ethyl formate, and the compound POS-4 reacts with
ethyl formate to obtain a compound POS-3 with specific
stereoselectivity. And salifying with
oxalic acid to obtain the initial
raw material SM3 of the product
posaconazole. According to the method, the
chiral resolution step is effectively avoided in the
modes of asymmetric
carbonyl reduction and selective
nucleophilic substitution, so that the content of isomer impurities is reduced, the prepared product is high in ee value, the yield is also remarkably improved, and the production cost is greatly reduced.