Imaging Science and Photochemistry ›› 2017, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (5): 667-674.DOI: 10.7517/j.issn.1674-0475.2017.04.027

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Preparation of Resin-like Vitamin D3 by Micro-flow Photoreaction

LI Chao, ZHOU Qianxiong, ZHANG Baowen, WANG Xuesong   

  1. Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
  • Received:2017-05-27 Revised:2017-06-15 Online:2017-09-15 Published:2017-09-15

Abstract:

The key process in the synthesis of vitamin D3 is the photochemical conversion from 7-dehydrocholesterol to pre-vitamin D3, which is currently carried out in batch photoreactors and suffers from low conversion efficiency, recycle of unreacted 7-dehydrocholesterol, and long production period. Using micro-flow photoreactor instead of batch photoreactor, the conversion yield of 7-dehydrocholesterol may be increased from less than 30% to over 95%,allowing the photoreaction product to be directly used to prepare resin-like vitamin D3 through a thermal isomerization reaction and shortening the production period greatly.

Key words: vitamin D3, 7-dehydrocholesterol, pre-vitamin D3, micro-flowphotoreactor