Objective To establish a headspace gas chromatog. method for the determination of acetaldehyde, ethanol, di-Me sulfide and toluene in the synthetic intermediate materials( 4 R-cis)-6-aldehyde-2, 2-dimethyl-1, 3-dioxane-4-Bu acetate of rosuvastatin calcium.Methods Gas chromatog.( GC) was performed with Rtx-624 capillary column( 60 m x 0. 25 mm, 1. 4 μm) with6% cyanopropylphenyl-94% dimethylpolysiloxane as stationary phase and programmed heating, the detector was flame ionization detector( FID) with temperature of 250 °C, the temperature of injection port was 200 °C, the split ratio was 30 : 1, the carrier gas was nitrogen, the equilibrium temperature of headspace bottle was 90 °C, the equilibrium time of headspace bottle was 30 min, the temperature of quant. loop was 120 °C, the temperature of transmission line was 130 °C, and the injection volume was 1 m L.GCMS solution 2. 71 workstation was adopted with electron bombardment( ESI) ion source, the temperature of ion source was 230 °C, the temperature of transmission line was 250 °C, and the mass scanning range m/z was 45-550.Results Acetaldehyde, ethanol, di-Me sulfide and toluene were completely separated from the adjacent peaks, and their linear ranges were 80. 04-800. 36 μg/m L, 103. 94-1 039. 44 μg/m L, 19. 27-192. 68 μg/m L, 17. 97-179. 72 μg/m L( R2> 0. 995), resp.The average recoveries of acetaldehyde, ethanol, di-Me sulfide and toluene were 92. 73%, 91. 75%, 88. 45%, 86. 89% with RSDs of 2. 33%, 3. 19%, 2. 57%, 3. 62%( n = 9), resp.Conclusion The method is simple, accurate and sensitive, which can be used for the determination of residual organic solvents in the synthetic intermediate materials of rosuvastatin calcium and provide a reference for the quality control of the materials.