Method for preparing lanonol and wool acid by using lanolin as raw material
Technical Field
The invention belongs to a separation method in the field of medicines, and particularly relates to a method for preparing lanonol and wool acid by taking lanolin as a raw material.
Background
Lanolin, also known as anhydrous lanolin and wool wax, is yellow, translucent, oily, viscous, ointment-like, semisolid in appearance. Insoluble in water, soluble in chloroform-trichloroethane mixed solvent at ratio of 3:10, slightly soluble in carbon tetrachloride, diethyl ether, petroleum ether and xylene, and insoluble in cold ethanol. Can absorb 2 times of water by weight to form a paste. Lanolin is an ester composed mainly of higher fatty acids and alcohols such as sterol, fatty alcohol and triterpene alcohol (mainly lanosterol), and contains about 95% of lanolin, free alcohols, fatty acids and alkanes, wherein the content of cholesterol is 10% -15%. The main source of lanolin is wool washing wastewater from wool spinning industry. Pure lanolin is an excellent emollient and is widely used in cosmetics. Lanolin alcohol and lanolin acid can be obtained by saponification of lanolin.
Lanolin alcohol is also called lanolin alcohol, is one of saponification products obtained by saponifying lanolin with alkali and separating, is light yellow to brown waxy or pasty solid, and has a melting point of 60-70 ℃. Insoluble in water, slightly soluble in anhydrous ethanol and mineral oil, and soluble in chloroform, oleyl alcohol and castor oil. It mainly comprises higher fatty alcohol, sterol and triterpene alcohol. Because of containing a large amount of sterol substances (such as cholesterol), lanolin alcohol has excellent moisture retention and emulsion stability, so that it can be used as a nutritional agent or bioactive substance added into high-grade cosmetics, and has effects of moistening skin, retaining moisture, etc. Lanolin alcohol is also one of the very effective W/O type emulsifiers.
The solubility of cholesterol in lanolin alcohol is similar to that of fat, and the lanolin alcohol is insoluble in water and easily soluble in solvents such as ether and chloroform. Cholesterol is an essential substance indispensable to animal tissue cells, not only participates in the formation of cell membranes, but also is a raw material for the synthesis of bile acids, vitamin D and steroid hormones. The cholesterol can be metabolized and converted into bile acid, steroid hormone, and 7-dehydrocholesterol, wherein the 7-dehydrocholesterol can be converted into vitamin D3 by ultraviolet irradiation. Cholesterol has multiple industrial applications, and can be widely applied to various fields such as cosmetics, emulsifiers, medicine industry, liquid crystal industry and the like.
Wool acid is one of the most important products in lanolin derivatives, and is widely used in cosmetics; wool acid can promote the penetration of water vapor to skin fat, and thus plays an important role in skin care. Higher purity wool acid is the main raw material for the preparation of various lanolin derivatives. Lanolin has been shown to be rich in branched chain fatty acids, which include all the branched chain fatty acids detectable in vernix. The branched chain fatty acid has important effect on intestinal tracts of newborn and human health, but the content of natural sources is low, the artificial synthesis cost is high, and the content of the branched chain fatty acid in the lanolin is as high as more than 50%, so that the preparation of high-purity wool acid provides possibility for extracting and enriching the branched chain fatty acid.
Lanolin has abundant resources and wide application prospect, and particularly contains a large amount of products with high added values, such as lanolin alcohol, cholesterol, wool acid and the like, in a cracking product of the lanolin. The existing methods for treating lanolin in industrial production comprise the saponification of divalent metal oxides, the saponification of alkaline alcohol solution and the like, and have the problems of low reaction yield, long time, environmental pollution caused by heavy metal ions and the like. Therefore, there is still a need to develop a lanolin saponification method that is low in cost, solvent toxicity, equipment requirements, and environmental friendliness.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a method for preparing lanolin alcohol and lanolin acid by using lanolin as a raw material, aiming at the problems of incomplete saponification, complex treatment after saponification, high requirements of saponification reaction on equipment and the like in the conventional lanolin saponification process.
The invention provides a method for preparing lanonol and wool acid by using lanolin as a raw material, which comprises six steps:
firstly, weighing a certain mass of lanolin, and selecting an organic solvent;
secondly, adding a certain mass of sodium hydroxide, a certain volume of organic solvent and water into a reaction vessel;
thirdly, raising the temperature to carry out saponification reaction, and heating for a period of time;
fourthly, cooling the substances in the reaction system to room temperature, standing for phase splitting, and filtering;
fifthly, taking the lower aqueous phase, and adjusting the pH value to obtain wool acid;
and sixthly, taking the upper organic phase and the precipitated solid in the reaction, and evaporating the solvent to dryness under reduced pressure to obtain the lanonol.
The organic solvent mentioned in the method specifically refers to methyl isobutyl ketone or n-heptanol. The mass of sodium hydroxide and organic solvent and water mentioned in the method means that the mass ratio of the mass (g) of sodium hydroxide to the mass (g) of lanolin is 1: 1.5-1: 2.5; the ratio of lanolin mass (g) to organic solvent volume (mL) is 1: 4-1: 10; the ratio of lanolin mass (g) to water volume (mL) is 1: 4-1: 10. the saponification reaction temperature mentioned in the method is 80-110 ℃, and the saponification reaction time is 5-15 h. Adjusting the pH of the aqueous phase means adjusting the pH to less than 1.6-2.
The method comprises the steps of saponification, filtration, liquid separation, pH adjustment and the like. The method is characterized in that: 1. the selected solvents are higher boiling point solvents (the boiling point of methyl isobutyl ketone is 115.8 ℃ at normal pressure, the boiling point of n-heptanol is 175.8 ℃), so that the reaction can be carried out at higher temperature; 2. the sodium lanolate obtained by the reaction is in a water phase, and can be separated from the lanonol by simple phase separation; 3. the wool acid is obtained by adjusting the pH value, and no solid waste residue is generated in the process. The method of the invention is suitable for being popularized and used for saponifying lanolin to obtain lanolin alcohol and lanolin fatty acid. Compared with the prior art, the method for saponifying and cracking the lanolin has the advantages of lower cost, safer solvent, lower requirement on equipment and less environmental pollution, and is suitable for being popularized and applied to saponifying the lanolin on a large scale.
The invention has the advantages that the boiling points of the used water and organic solvent are higher, so that the saponification reaction can be carried out at higher temperature and the requirement on a pressure container is lower; the lanolin alcohol and the sodium lanolin are respectively separated in an organic phase and a water phase, so that subsequent treatment is facilitated; methyl isobutyl ketone and n-heptanol both belong to low-toxicity solvents, and are easy to regenerate. The organic solvent adopted by the invention can be repeatedly used for a plurality of times, thereby reducing the cost and increasing the yield. The application of the method can reduce energy consumption and requirements on equipment, reduce the subsequent steps of separating the lanolin alcohol and the lanolin fatty acid, reduce the toxicity of the solvent, improve the overall production efficiency and have good industrial prospect.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a flow chart of the method of the present invention.
FIG. 2 shows cholesterol crystals isolated from lanolin alcohol obtained by saponification in example 1.
FIG. 3 shows cholesterol crystals isolated from lanolin alcohol obtained by saponification in example 2.
FIG. 4 shows cholesterol crystals isolated from lanolin alcohol obtained by saponification in example 3.
Detailed Description
The invention is further explained by the accompanying drawings and examples.
Example 1
Referring to FIG. 1, 15g of crude lanolin is weighed, 10g of sodium hydroxide solid, 150mL of deionized water and 60mL of methyl isobutyl ketone are added into a closed reaction vessel, the temperature is raised to 110 ℃ by heating in an oil bath, and heating is carried out for 5h from the time when the temperature is raised to the set temperature. After cooling to room temperature, the mixture was filtered, and the remaining liquid was allowed to stand for liquid separation. The solid and organic phases were combined and the solvent was evaporated down under reduced pressure to give 17.2g of lanonol, of which the mass of cholesterol was 1.34 g. Adjusting pH of the water phase to 1.853 with hydrochloric acid, standing, and separating phase to obtain upper oily lanolin acid (0.9 g in total). By subsequent separation and purification, needle-like white cholesterol crystals (FIG. 2) were obtained, which were analyzed by HPLC and had a purity of 93.5%.
Example 2
Referring to fig. 1, crude lanolin 15g is weighed, 6g sodium hydroxide solids, 60mL deionized water and 150mL methyl isobutyl ketone are added into a closed reaction vessel, heated to 80 ℃, and heated for 15h after timing from the temperature rise to the set temperature. After cooling to room temperature, the mixture was filtered, and the remaining liquid was allowed to stand for liquid separation. The solid and organic phases were combined and the solvent was evaporated down under reduced pressure to give 11.2g of lanonol, of which the mass of cholesterol was 1.07 g. Adjusting pH of the water phase to 1.988 with hydrochloric acid, standing, and separating phase to obtain upper oily wool acid (total amount of 3.0 g). By subsequent separation and purification, needle-like white cholesterol crystals (FIG. 3) were obtained, which were analyzed by HPLC and had a purity of 92.0%.
Example 3
Referring to fig. 1, crude lanolin 15g is weighed, 7.5g sodium hydroxide solids, 105mL deionized water and 80mL n-heptanol are added to the reaction in a closed container, heated to 95 ℃ and heated for 8h starting from the temperature rise to the set temperature. Cooling to room temperature, and standing for liquid separation. The upper organic phase was taken and the solvent was evaporated to dryness under reduced pressure to give 90.6g of lanonol, of which the mass of cholesterol was 1.83 g. Adjusting pH of the water phase to 1.624 with hydrochloric acid, standing, and separating phase to obtain upper oily lanolin acid (4.2 g in total). By subsequent separation and purification, needle-like white cholesterol crystals (FIG. 4) were obtained, which were analyzed by HPLC and had a purity of 89.3%.