β - isophorone was prepared by catalyzed isomerization of α - isophorone with hexanedioic acid, and its isomerization conditions were also optimized. When the glass micro - beads packed column was adopted with a length of 200cm and the dropping speed of distillate was controlled as 20 drops per min in the experiment, the amount of β - isophorone in the distillate reached 99. 3%, and the corresponding productive rate can reached 95%. It was suggested that the rectification efficiency of the column and distillate dropping speed were the key factors affecting the isome...