In this study,the synthetic method of sparsentan(1)was improved.With 4-bromo-3-methylbenzo-nitrile(2)as the starting material,3-(ethoxymethyl)-4-(4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolan-2-yl)benzaldehyde(6)was obtained via free radical substitution,nucleophilic substitution,cyano reduction,Miyaura borylation.In another way,the condensation of 2-bromobenzenesulfonyl chloride(7)with 3-amino-4,5-dimethylisoxazole(8)was conducted,followed by the amino-protection to give 2-bromo-N-(4,5-dimethylisoxazol-3-yl)-N-[(2-methoxyethoxy)methyl]benzene-sulfonamide(11).Intermediates 6 and 11 reacted via Suzuki coupling reaction to get N-(4,5-dimethylisoxazol-3-yl)-2'-(ethoxymethyl)-4'-formyl-N-[(2-methoxyethoxy)methyl]-[1,1'-biphenyl]-2-sulfonamide(12),then the target compound 1 was obtained from compound 12 via reduction,bromination,condensation and deprotection.The total yield was about 43.25%(based on 2)with the purity of 99.5%.The optimized route avoided the usage of the dangerous and toxic reagents such as n-butyl lithium and carbon tetrabromoide,and simplified some purifications.