The invention discloses a synthesis method of
vinpocetine. The synthesis method comprises adding
vincamine into a three-neck flask, adding
toluene into the three-neck
bottle, stirring the mixture in
ice water bath, dropwise adding polyphosphoric acid, placing the mixture into
oil bath after half an hour, installing a water separator and a condensation tube, pumping to be vacuum, replacingnitrogen for two times, and performing reaction for 8 hours at the temperature of 120 DEG C;
drying solvent by
distillation after reaction is finished, adding
ethanol and water, simultaneously dropwise adding caustic soda solution, utilizing saturated
potassium carbonate solution to regulate pH to be 12 when the pH is 9, separating out
solid, filtering and performing
vacuum drying to obtain apovincamine; and adding absolute ethyl
alcohol into the three-neck
bottle, stirring the mixture in the
ice water bath for one hour, then adding caustic
alcohol into the mixture, adding the apovincamine after half an hour's stirring, placing a reaction
bottle in the
oil bath, performing reaction for 12 hours at the temperature of 80 DEG C, then
steaming out
solvent, adding the
solvent into
hydrochloric acid, extracting the mixture through
ethyl acetate, adjusting pH value of the water phase to 12, separating out
solid, filtering and
drying to obtain the
vinpocetine. The synthesis method is few in
reaction step, low in
energy consumption and less in environment
pollution, recrystallization is not needed, and the purity of the
vinpocetine can reach 99.5%.