The invention discloses a method for chemically synthesizing
natural product salidroside. In the method, lewis acid serving as a catalyst,
tyrosol of acyl protected phenolic hydroxyl serving as a
glycosylation receptor, and beta-D-5 acetyl glucose serving as
glycosylation donor perform a
glycosylation reaction to obtain 1-[2-(4-acyloxy phenyl) ethyl]-2,3,4,6-O-tetraacetyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside; and acyl
protecting group is removed in an alkaline condition to obtain
salidroside. Compared with the traditional method, the method has easily available raw materials, the glycosylation
receptor, the glycosylation product and the final product can be prepared through recrystallization,
column chromatography and other purification processes are eliminated, the
reaction step is short, the preparation process is simple, the glycosylation reaction catalyst has low cost and is easily available, so that the preparation cost is remarkably reduced; and a heavy
metal salt catalyst is not used in the reaction, so that the synthesis product is more suitable to be used as a
raw material of medicaments and health-care products. The method is suitable for industrial production of
salidroside.