Background technology
Thioctic Acid, its chemical name is: (±)-5-[3-(1,2-dithiolane)]-valeric acid, English name is: (R)-5-(1,2-dithiolan-3-yl) pentanoic acid, molecular formula is: C
8H
14O
2S
2, molecular weight: 206.33, CAS number is 1200-22-2, structural formula is:
Thioctic Acid is sulfur-bearing eight carbon resin acids, and the disulfide linkage (C that links to each other is arranged on 6,8
6And C
8On hydrogen atom replaced by disulfide linkage), so claim 6,8-dithio-octanoic acid again, have oxidation, the reduction two types.6,8 are gone up the sulfydryl dehydrogenation is oxidized form Thioctic Acid (two sulphur atoms link to each other by disulfide linkage), and hydrogenation becomes reduced form and is called Thioctic acid, dihydro-(disulfide bond reduction is sulfydryl).Though Thioctic Acid does not belong to VITAMIN; but it can be used as coenzyme and participates in acyl group transfer in the substance metabolism process in the body; play the effect (namely as hydrogen carrier and acyl carrier) of passing hydrogen and shifting acyl group; have the function similar to VITAMIN (biostearin), therefore also listed in the VITAMIN by the biological chemistry teaching material and tell about.Thioctic Acid is not only tool water-soluble (slightly soluble) but also the fat-soluble light yellow crystal of tool, and racemize Thioctic Acid fusing point is at 60~61 ℃, and boiling point is 160~165 ℃.
The natural product that Thioctic Acid is separated from pork liver first by ReedShi, it is the cofactors of the oxidative decarboxylation reaction of α-Tong Wuersuan in pyruvic acid and the tricarboxylic acid cycle.Thioctic Acid has prevention and result for the treatment of for active oxidation free radical relevant multiple disease such as diabetes, ischemic reperfusion injury, heavy metal poisoning, radiolesion, degeneration DPN and HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection etc.
Thioctic Acid is used for the treatment of on the DPN of diabetes in a large number at present.Isolated test shows that this product can reduce the lipid oxidation phenomenon of nervous tissue, and this product may stop the glycosylation of protein; And can suppress aldose reductase, thereby can stop glucose or semi-lactosi to transform into sorbyl alcohol, so the DPN that Thioctic Acid can prevent diabetes, control blood sugar and prevent from causing because of hyperglycemia.
Patent documentation US3223712 adopts 6,8-dichloro ethyl octylate and SULPHUR POWDER, sodium disulfide cyclization to generate the Thioctic Acid ethyl ester, obtains the Thioctic Acid crude product through hydrolysis then, then with refining pure product of Thioctic Acid that make such as sherwood oil, normal hexane, isopropyl ether, hexanaphthenes; For freezing crystallization under the general employing ethyl acetate made from extra care of Thioctic Acid and the hexanaphthene mixed solvent, through filtering, the filter cake drying under reduced pressure obtains the pure product of Thioctic Acid.
These methods can effectively prepare Thioctic Acid, but the purity of target product is not high, colour-difference, and content is low, has influenced the mass effect of its preparation.The product processing that provides or purification process are the ordinary methods in the organic chemical synthesis, and purity improves limited.
Summary of the invention
In order to overcome the defective of above-mentioned prior art, particularly overcome the low defective of Thioctic Acid purity of prior art for preparing, the invention provides a kind of method of refining Thioctic Acid compound.
Process for purification provided by the invention at Thioctic Acid be the present known prepared Thioctic Acid crude product of synthetic method or commercially available Thioctic Acid bulk drug, below be referred to as the raw material Thioctic Acid that the present invention adopts.
The inventor by comprising the process for purification of following treatment step, can increase substantially the purity of raw material Thioctic Acid through discovering:
Step 1 is scattered in the raw material Thioctic Acid in the water, slowly adds the alcoholic solution of alcoholization sodium, and heating is stirred down, and Thioctic Acid is dissolved fully, filters, and collects filtrate, and its pH is 8.0-10.0;
Step 2 adds gac or macroporous adsorbent resin in above-mentioned filtrate, absorption is 10-60 minute under the room temperature, filters, and collects filtrate;
Step 3 slowly adds acid solution in the above-mentioned filtrate, stir, to the pH value of solution be 2.0-4.0, be warming up to and be not higher than 60 ℃, keep certain hour to concentrate, gradient reduces temperature then, separates out crystallization, centrifuge washing, drying obtains highly purified Thioctic Acid compound.
The following specifically describes the present invention.
In step 1 of the present invention, the raw material Thioctic Acid is scattered in the water, slowly add the alcoholic solution of alcoholization sodium, heating is stirred down, and Thioctic Acid is dissolved fully, filters, and collects filtrate, and its pH is 8.0-10.0.
The inventor finds, make with extra care in the raw material Thioctic Acid of purifying generally to contain water or the alcohol insoluble matter impurity of introducing in the preparation process; In addition, the method final step that much obtains Thioctic Acid is the protecting group that removes carboxyl, is the common protecting group of carboxyl such as ester group, certainly will cause existing in the Thioctic Acid crude product a small amount of ester class impurity like this.These impurity are to cause one of not high reason of raw material Thioctic Acid purity.Owing to do not take the specific aim purification process, these impurity are generally still mixed in together with raw material Thioctic Acid crude product.And in the presence of alkaline matter, residual Ester can hydrolysis discharge the Thioctic Acid that contains acidic moiety, has so not only effectively reduced impurity, and has advantageously increased the productive rate of target product.
Therefore, in step 1 of the present invention, in the water-based system that contains Thioctic Acid, add the alcoholic solution that refines sodium, the alcohol moiety of preferred described alcoholization sodium is identical with alcohols material in the solution, for example, when adopting ethanol as solvent, use sodium ethylate to handle, when adopting methyl alcohol as solvent, use sodium methylate to handle.
To carry out sooner and use solvent less as far as possible in order to dissolve, preferably stir under heating state, preferred temperature is 30-55 ℃, more preferably 35-50 ℃, also is preferably 40-45 ℃.By filtering or suction filtration, give up solid impurity then, obtain filtrate, its pH value is 8.0-10.0, is preferably 8.5-9.5, more preferably 8.8-9.2.Can contain the sodium thioctate that is formed by Thioctic Acid and alkaline matter on a small quantity in this filtrate, in purification step subsequently, this sodium salt is easy to be converted into the Thioctic Acid form in sour environment.
In step 2 of the present invention, in above-mentioned Thioctic Acid solution, add gac or macroporous adsorbent resin, absorption is 10-60 minute under the room temperature, filters, and collects filtrate.
Also contain the solvent of introducing in the preparation process, various raw material and intermediate product in the Thioctic Acid crude product, and various organism and pigment etc.What these materials had exists with trace, and what have has certain solubility in water or alcoholic solvent, is difficult to separate by modes such as filtrations remove.
The inventor finds that this class material is generally organic property material, can be removed by gac or absorption with macroporous adsorbent resin; In addition, generally also contain inorganic nature material such as the trace catalyst of introducing in the preparation process, various salt and heavy metal and deposit the bacterial endotoxin that produces in the process in the Thioctic Acid crude product.Also can effectively it separation be removed by suction type.
The inventor notices, macroporous adsorbent resin has good macroporous netlike structure and bigger ratio table amasss, can be by the physical adsorption material that adsorb organic compound is nonpolar or polarity is more weak selectively from the aqueous solution, the resin absorption effect is the Van der Waals force that relies between it and the molecule (adsorbate) that is adsorbed, carry out physical adsorption by its huge specific surface and work, the organifying compound is according to having adsorptive power and molecular weight size thereof separately to reach separation, purifying, removal of impurities, various objectives such as concentrated through certain solvent elution.Therefore can be with Thioctic Acid and impurity separating substances; In addition, itself has decolorization resin, can remove the impurity of colour developing.
According to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, when adopting macroporous adsorbent resin as sorbent material, can select for example D101 type macroporous adsorbent resin, H-103 type macroporous adsorbent resin or HP-20 type macroporous adsorbent resin, preferred D101 type macroporous adsorbent resin.Selected macroporous adsorbent resin is commercial prod.
According to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the add-on of gac or macroporous adsorbent resin is 0.5%-2.0% (g/ml), preferred 0.8%-1.8% (g/ml), more preferably 1.0%-1.5% (g/ml), in adsorption process, stir, absorption is 10-60 minute under the general room temperature, preferably adsorbs 20-45 minute, more preferably adsorbs 30 minutes.
In step 3 of the present invention, slowly add acid solution in the above-mentioned filtrate, stir, to the pH value of solution be 2.0-4.0, be warming up to and be not higher than 60 ℃, keep certain hour to concentrate, gradient reduces temperature then, separates out crystallization, centrifuge washing, drying obtains highly purified Thioctic Acid compound.
We discover, for Thioctic Acid, adopt and reflux in the single solvent commonly used or the recrystallization or be suspended in the stirring method that refluxes in the solvent of lowering the temperature, or be difficult to crystallization, or it is higher to separate out rear impurity content.And directly the Thioctic Acid crude product is carried out optimum-poor solvent liberation method can not obtain desirable purity.
According to the present invention, the acid of using in step 3 has such characteristics, and this acid or its sodium salt have bigger solubleness in water and/or alcohol solution, can not separate out in crystallisation process subsequently like this, and have the effect of regulator solution electrolyte environment.
The acid of using in this step of the present invention is preferably hydrochloric acid or nitric acid, the hydrochloric acid of preferred concentration 0.02M-1M or nitric acid, dilute hydrochloric acid or the rare nitric acid of preferred 0.05M-0.5M.Adopt dilute hydrochloric acid or rare nitric acid to be more convenient for controlling the pH value, for example control the pH value and be 2.2-3.8, preferably control the pH value and be 2.5-3.5.And by adding dilute acid soln, can provide more water comparatively speaking, and the solubleness of Thioctic Acid in water and little, the gradient cooling crystallization that is conducive to carry out is subsequently separated out.
The solution that obtains is warming up to is not higher than 60 ℃, preferably be not higher than 58 ℃, more preferably no higher than 55 ℃ temperature, keep certain hour to concentrate, gradient reduces temperature then, carries out recrystallization.
According to the present invention, in the gradient cooling process, in 1 hour, cool the temperature to 42~45 ℃, in 1 to 3 hour, cool the temperature to 20~25 ℃ then, at last in 3 to 15 hours, in preferred 5 to 12 hours, most preferably cool the temperature to-5~12 ℃ in 8 to 10 hours, preferred 0~10 ℃, most preferably 5~8 ℃.In this process, constantly there is crystal to separate out, complete until crystallization.
Surprisingly, after the above-mentioned processing of the present invention, obtain the Thioctic Acid of based on very high purity.Its reason may be that step 1 of the present invention and 2 has been removed and to producing precipitation the impurity material of disadvantageous effect arranged, and has influence on the environment of final recrystallization.
After the crystallization fully, carry out centrifuge washing, drying can adopt the pure water washing, and mode is dried in employing or the vacuum drying mode is carried out drying.
By the Thioctic Acid highly finished product of the inventive method acquisition purifying, according to high effective liquid chromatography for measuring, its purity is greater than 99.6%, generally greater than 99.7%.
In view of the powder flowbility of Thioctic Acid, intrinsic dissolution rate, Pickering and preparation operability huge to the influence of the performance of its activity and the preparation prepared, and the Thioctic Acid that purity is largely increased dissolution rate, the property prepared and stable aspect also corresponding obvious improvement.
The invention solves the difficult problem that rough Thioctic Acid and Thioctic Acid bulk drug face, improved the quality product of preparation, reduced toxic side effect, ensured safety of clinical administration, and compared with prior art, present method technology is simple, and cost is low, the yield height, the purity height is suitable for suitability for industrialized production.
Further explain and describe content of the present invention by the following examples.But the embodiment that provides should not be understood that protection domain of the present invention is construed as limiting.
Embodiment
Further explain and describe content of the present invention by the following examples.But the embodiment that provides should not be understood that protection domain of the present invention is construed as limiting.
The detection method of Thioctic Acid purity:
With the purity of high performance liquid chromatograph detection head Thioctic Acid sample, chromatographic condition is:
Be weighting agent with octadecylsilane chemically bonded silica, granularity 5 μ m, specification: 150.0mm x 4.6mm, stainless steel column (Shimpack CLC-ODS);
Moving phase: acetonitrile-0.005mol/L potassium dihydrogen phosphate (v: v=50: 50).With phosphorus acid for adjusting pH value to 3.0; Flow velocity: 1.0ml/min;
Detect wavelength: 212nm;
Sample size: 20 μ l.
Embodiment 1
Accurately take by weighing the Thioctic Acid 10g according to the preparation of US3223712 reported method, it is 91% that HPLC measures purity.It is scattered in the 300ml water, slowly adds 0.2g and be dissolved in sodium ethylate in the 50ml ethanol, 40 ℃ of insulated and stirred 30 minutes, Thioctic Acid is dissolved fully, filter, collect filtrate, pH value of solution is about 8.5.
In the filtrate that obtains, add the 3.5g gac, stir under the room temperature, adsorbed 40 minutes, filter, collect filtrate.
Slowly add the hydrochloric acid soln of 0.5mol/L in the filtrate, stir, to the pH value of solution be 3.0, be warming up to 55-58 ℃ temperature, maintenance half an hour.In 1 hour, cool the temperature to 42~45 ℃, in 2 hours, cool the temperature to 22~25 ℃ then, in 5 hours, cool the temperature to 2~5 ℃ at last.In this process, constantly there is crystal to separate out, complete until crystallization.Centrifuge washing is 80 ℃ of oven dry at oven temperature then, obtains highly purified Thioctic Acid Thioctic Acid highly finished product 8.7g, and it is 99.6% that HPLC measures purity, and fusing point is 60.3~60.8 ℃.
Embodiment 2
Accurately take by weighing 10g Thioctic Acid raw material (Jiangsu Shenlong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., lot number 20100215), it is 96% that HPLC measures purity.It is scattered in the 250ml water, slowly adds 0.40g and be dissolved in sodium ethylate in the 100ml ethanol, 35 ℃ of insulated and stirred 50 minutes, Thioctic Acid is dissolved fully, filter, collect filtrate, pH value of solution is about 9.2.
In the filtrate that obtains, add 3.0g D101 type macroporous adsorbent resin, stir under the room temperature, adsorbed 30 minutes, filter, collect filtrate.
Slowly add the salpeter solution of 0.8mol/L in the filtrate, stir, to the pH value of solution be 2.5, be warming up to 54-58 ℃ temperature, kept 30 minutes.In 1 hour, cool the temperature to 42~44 ℃, in 3 hours, cool the temperature to 20~23 ℃ then, in 8 hours, cool the temperature to-2~5 ℃ at last.In this process, constantly there is crystal to separate out, complete until crystallization.Centrifuge washing is 80 ℃ of oven dry down at oven temperature then, gets Thioctic Acid highly finished product 9.3g, purity 99.7%, and fusing point is 60.2~60.7 ℃.
Embodiment 3
Accurately take by weighing 10g Thioctic Acid raw material (Shanghai Hyundai Pharmacy stock Co., Ltd, lot number 20100605), it is that purity is 97% that HPLC measures purity.It is scattered in the 200ml water, slowly adds 0.25g and be dissolved in sodium methylate in the 50ml methyl alcohol, 45 ℃ of insulated and stirred 20 minutes, Thioctic Acid is dissolved fully, filter, collect filtrate, pH value of solution is about 9.0.
In the filtrate that obtains, add 4.0g HP-20 type macroporous adsorbent resin, stir under the room temperature, adsorbed 20 minutes, filter, collect filtrate.
Slowly add the salpeter solution of 0.5mol/L in the filtrate, stir, to the pH value of solution be 2.2, be warming up to 52-55 ℃ temperature, kept 45 minutes.In 1 hour, cool the temperature to 42~44 ℃, in 2 hours, cool the temperature to 20~24 ℃ then, in 6 hours, cool the temperature to 0~5 ℃ at last.In this process, constantly there is crystal to separate out, complete until crystallization.Centrifuge washing is 80 ℃ of oven dry down at oven temperature then, gets Thioctic Acid highly finished product 9.4g, purity 99.8%, and fusing point is 60.3~60.7 ℃.
Embodiment 4
Accurately take by weighing the expired Thioctic Acid raw material of 10g (Shanghai Hyundai Pharmacy stock Co., Ltd, 20070440), it is that purity is 84% that HPLC measures purity.It is scattered in the 300ml water, slowly adds 0.50g and be dissolved in sodium ethylate in the 150ml ethanol, 45 ℃ of insulated and stirred 60 minutes, Thioctic Acid is dissolved fully, filter, collect filtrate, pH value of solution is about 8.8.
In the filtrate that obtains, add the 4.0g gac, stir under the room temperature, adsorbed 30 minutes, filter, collect filtrate.
Slowly add the hydrochloric acid soln of 0.8mol/L in the filtrate, stir, to the pH value of solution be 2.2, be warming up to 55-58 ℃ temperature, kept 40 minutes.In 1 hour, cool the temperature to 40~44 ℃, in 3 hours, cool the temperature to 20~25 ℃ then, in 8 hours, cool the temperature to 2~6 ℃ at last.In this process, constantly there is crystal to separate out, complete until crystallization.Centrifuge washing is 60 ℃ of oven dry down at oven temperature then, gets Thioctic Acid highly finished product 8.1g, purity 99.6%, and fusing point is 60.3~60.8 ℃.
According to the above embodiments the present invention has been made detailed description.It should be noted that above embodiment is just to illustrating the present invention.Under the prerequisite that does not depart from spirit of the present invention and essence, those skilled in the art can design multiple alternative of the present invention and improvement project, and it all should be understood to be within protection scope of the present invention.