Background
Ivermectin (Ivermectin) is prepared by hydrogenation reduction of abamectin B1 serving as a raw material at a C22-C23 position, achieves the aim of expelling parasites by inhibiting gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors so as to block nerve conduction, and can prevent and treat parasites which have drug resistance to common medicaments. Compared with avermectin, ivermectin has less dosage and 2-3 times lower toxicity than avermectin, is more suitable for preventing and treating parasites inside and outside animals, and is a novel broad-spectrum effective anti-parasite antibiotic. The pesticide is widely used for human, animal and plant insecticides, miticides and the like, and is one of biological pesticides with great development potential.
Currently, in the pharmaceutical industry, triphenylphosphine rhodium chloride (RhCl (PPh) is mainly used as an avermectin in a hydrocarbon-soluble Wilkinson catalyst3)3) The hydrogenation under the action of (3) to prepare ivermectin generally has the problems that the catalyst in the product is difficult to separate and the heavy metal residue in the product exceeds the standard, and in order to obtain the ivermectin meeting the USP/EP standard, scientists often need to carry out complex post-treatment.
Currently, the purification technology of ivermectin mainly adopts a column chromatography method (such as US4429042), although the product purity is high, the solvent consumption is large, the time consumption is long, the production cost is increased, and the industrial production is not facilitated.
Chinese patent CN101362786B uses active carbon (the dosage is 15-18 wt% of avermectin mass) to replace thiourea removal catalyst, reduces two environment pollution raw materials of toluene and thiourea in the traditional process, but only has detection data of related substances, and does not mention the data of heavy metal residual quantity; furthermore, the use of 15 to 18 wt.% of activated carbon also means that the product loss is not negligible. The prior art also realizes simple separation of catalyst and product by two-phase reaction, and Chinese patents CN1651449A, CN101012258A and CN103387594B are all
Similar methods are disclosed, but problems exist, such as large amounts of rhodium compound or rhodium phosphorus complex catalyst, and no data are detected to prove that the catalyst is in an aqueous phase and the organic phase has no catalyst residue.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention discloses a method for reducing the content of heavy metal rhodium in ivermectin, which comprises the following steps:
dissolving the crude ivermectin in an organic solvent, adding silica gel, stirring uniformly, filtering, and concentrating the filtrate to obtain ivermectin solid.
Further, the organic solvent is selected from any one of ethyl acetate, 95% ethanol or dichloromethane, preferably ethyl acetate or 95% ethanol, and most preferably ethyl acetate.
Further, the adding amount of the organic solvent is 20-50 mL/mg based on the mass of the ivermectin crude product.
Further, the mass ratio of the ivermectin crude product to the silica gel is 1: 0.1-6.
Further, the stirring temperature is 20-40 ℃, and the stirring time is 0.5-3 hours.
The content of heavy metal rhodium in the ivermectin finished product obtained by the method is lower than 70 ppm.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
1. the residual heavy metal rhodium in the product is prevented from being reduced by the traditional column chromatography purification method, the solvent dosage is greatly reduced, the operation time is shortened, the production cost is reduced, and the content of the heavy metal rhodium in the finished product can reach less than 7 ppm;
2. avoids using reagents such as thiourea, toluene and the like which are not friendly to the environment to remove the catalyst, improves the production safety, and is a reliable method suitable for industrial production and purification.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be further described by the following examples, however, the scope of the present invention is not limited to the following examples. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made to the invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. The present invention has been described generally and/or specifically with respect to materials used in testing and testing methods. Although many materials and methods of operation are known in the art for the purpose of carrying out the invention, the invention is nevertheless described herein in as detail as possible. The detection method of the heavy metal rhodium in the embodiment of the invention is based on 0412 electricity of the four-part general rule of 2020 edition in Chinese pharmacopoeia; the main instruments used are: agilent 7800 ICP-MS.
Example 1
The preparation method of the ivermectin crude product comprises the following steps: a2000 mL autoclave was charged with abamectin (100g), 95% ethanol (1000mL), and RhCl [ PPh ] catalyst3]3(1g, 1% w/w), replacing with hydrogen for 4 times, keeping the pressure at 0.3MPa when the system is not heated, starting stirring, adjusting a temperature control device to keep the temperature at 60 ℃, reacting for 24 hours to obtain an ivermectin reaction solution, directly concentrating to dryness to obtain a crude ivermectin product, and measuring the content of heavy metal rhodium to be 152 ppm.
Example 2
5g of the crude product obtained in example 1 was dissolved in ethyl acetate (100mL) (crude mass: solvent volume: 1:20), 0.5g of column chromatography silica gel (200-300 mesh) (crude mass: silica gel mass: 1:0.1) was added, the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 0.5 hour, filtered, and the filtrate was concentrated to obtain 4.26g of ivermectin solid in 85.20% yield, which was found to have a rhodium content of 40ppm and a removal rate of 73.7% in the ivermectin solid.
Example 3
The crude ivermectin (5g) obtained in example 1 was dissolved in ethyl acetate (100mL) (crude mass: solvent volume 1:20), 5g of column chromatography silica gel (200 mesh and 300 mesh) (crude mass: silica gel mass 1:1) was added, stirring was carried out at room temperature for 0.5 hour, filtration was carried out, and the filtrate was concentrated to obtain 4.12g of ivermectin solid with a yield of 82.30%, i.e., the content of rhodium in the ivermectin solid was 19ppm, and the removal rate was 87.5%.
Example 4
The crude ivermectin (5g) obtained in example 1 was dissolved in ethyl acetate (200mL) (crude mass: solvent volume 1:40), 25g of column chromatography silica gel (200 mesh and 300 mesh) (crude mass: silica gel mass 1:5) was added, stirring was carried out at room temperature for 0.5 hour, filtration was carried out, and the filtrate was concentrated to obtain 3.93g of ivermectin solid with a yield of 78.60%, i.e., the content of rhodium in the ivermectin solid was 7ppm, and the removal rate was 95.4%.
Example 5
The crude ivermectin (5g) is dissolved in dichloromethane (100mL) (crude mass: solvent volume 1:20), 30g of column chromatography silica gel (200 meshes 300 meshes) (crude mass: silica gel mass 1:6) is added, stirring is carried out at the reflux temperature (40 ℃) for 3 hours, filtering is carried out, and the filtrate is concentrated to obtain 3.82g of ivermectin solid, wherein the yield is 76.40%, namely the content of rhodium in the ivermectin solid is 66ppm, and the removal rate is 56.6%.
Example 6
The crude ivermectin (5g) is dissolved in dichloromethane (150mL) (crude mass: solvent volume 1:20), 30g of column chromatography silica gel (200 meshes 300 meshes) (crude mass: silica gel mass 1:6) is added, stirring is carried out at the reflux temperature (40 ℃) for 0.5 hour, filtering is carried out, and the filtrate is concentrated to obtain 3.52g of ivermectin solid, wherein the yield is 70.30%, namely the content of rhodium in the ivermectin solid is 52ppm, and the removal rate is 65.8%.
Example 7
Dissolving crude ivermectin (5g) in 95% ethanol (100mL) (crude mass: solvent volume is 1:20), adding common column chromatography silica gel (200 meshes and 300 meshes) (crude mass: silica gel mass is 1:5), stirring at room temperature for 0.5 h, filtering, and concentrating the filtrate to obtain 4.00g of ivermectin solid, wherein the yield is 80.00%, namely the content of rhodium in the ivermectin solid is 70ppm, and the removal rate is 54.0%.
Example 8
The crude ivermectin (5g) is dissolved in 95% ethanol (250mL) (crude mass: solvent volume is 1:50), column chromatography silica gel (200 meshes and 300 meshes) is added (crude mass: silica gel mass is 1:5), stirring is carried out at room temperature for 0.5 hour, filtering is carried out, and the filtrate is concentrated to obtain 3.56g of ivermectin solid, wherein the yield is 71.20%, namely the content of rhodium in the ivermectin solid is 36ppm, and the removal rate is 76.3%.
Comparative example 1
The crude ivermectin (5g) is dissolved in dichloromethane (100mL) (crude mass: solvent volume 1:20), 1g of column chromatography silica gel (200 meshes 300 meshes) (crude mass: silica gel mass 1:0.2) is added, stirring is carried out at room temperature for 0.5 hour, filtering is carried out, and the filtrate is concentrated to obtain 4.54g of ivermectin solid, wherein the yield is 90.80 percent, namely the content of rhodium in the ivermectin solid is 106ppm, and the removal rate is 30.3 percent.
Comparative example 2
The crude ivermectin (5g) prepared in example was dissolved in methanol (100mL) (crude mass: solvent volume 1:20), 1g of column chromatography silica gel (200 mesh and 300 mesh) was added (crude mass: silica gel mass 1:0.2), stirring was carried out at room temperature for 0.5 hour, filtration was carried out, and the filtrate was concentrated to obtain 4.34g of ivermectin solid with a yield of 86.80%, i.e., the content of rhodium in the ivermectin solid was 108ppm, and the removal rate was 28.9%.
Comparative example 3
The crude ivermectin (5g) is dissolved in toluene (100mL) (crude mass: solvent volume 1:20), 1g of column chromatography silica gel (200 meshes 300 meshes) (crude mass: silica gel mass 1:0.2) is added, stirring is carried out at room temperature for 0.5 hour, filtering is carried out, and the filtrate is concentrated to obtain 4.37g of ivermectin solid, wherein the yield is 87.40%, namely the content of rhodium in the ivermectin solid is 108ppm, and the removal rate is 28.9%.
Comparative example 4
The crude ivermectin (5g) is dissolved in isopropanol (100mL) (crude mass: solvent volume 1:20), 1g of column chromatography silica gel (200 meshes 300 meshes) (crude mass: silica gel mass 1:0.2) is added, stirring is carried out at room temperature for 0.5 hour, filtering is carried out, and the filtrate is concentrated to obtain 4.56g of ivermectin solid, wherein the yield is 91.20%, namely the content of rhodium in the ivermectin solid is 98ppm, and the removal rate is 35.5%.
Comparative example 5
The crude ivermectin (5g) was dissolved in tetrahydrofuran (100mL) (crude mass: solvent volume 1:20), 1g of column chromatography silica gel (200 mesh 300 mesh) (crude mass: silica gel mass 1:0.2) was added, stirring was carried out at room temperature for 0.5 hour, filtration was carried out, and the filtrate was concentrated to give 4.16g of ivermectin solid in 83.20% yield, i.e., the rhodium content in the ivermectin solid was 87ppm, which was reduced by 42.8%.
Comparative example 6
The crude product (5g) obtained in example 1 was subjected to column chromatography, silica gel (200-300 mesh) was used in an amount of 80g (crude product mass: silica gel mass: 1:16), the column was washed with ethyl acetate (500mL) as an eluent at room temperature, and the eluent was concentrated to obtain 3.81g of ivermectin solid in a yield of 76.20%, i.e., the content of rhodium in the ivermectin solid was 42ppm, which was decreased by 72.4%.
Comparative example 7
The crude ivermectin (10g) obtained in example 1 was subjected to column chromatography, silica gel (200-300 mesh) was used in an amount of 80g (crude mass: silica gel mass: 1:8), the column was washed with ethyl acetate (1000mL) as an eluent at room temperature, and the eluent was concentrated to obtain 8.53g of an ivermectin solid in a yield of 85.30%, i.e., the rhodium content in the ivermectin solid was 17ppm, which was decreased by 88.8%.
Comparative example 8
The crude ivermectin (15g) obtained in example 1 was subjected to column chromatography, silica gel (200-300 mesh) was used in an amount of 80g (crude mass: silica gel mass: 1:5.3), the column was washed with ethyl acetate (1500mL) as an eluent at room temperature, and the eluent was concentrated to obtain an ivermectin solid 12.66g in a yield of 84.40%, i.e., the rhodium content in the ivermectin solid was 38ppm, which was reduced by 75%.