A large-scale separation of paclitaxel from semi-purified bark extract of Taxus yunnanesis was investigated. The chromatographic behavior of paclitaxel and two close eluting analogues, cephalomannine and 7-epi-10-deacetyltaxol were sytematically studied on a C18 bonded phase column with different mobile phase in reverse phase mode. According to the notably different selectivity of the methanol and acetonitrile with water in the mobile phase and the most important requirement of capacity in preparative chromatography, the optimum suitably mobile phase used in a large-scale isolation of paclitaxel and 7-epi-10-deacetyltaxol on a preparative C18 column was given.Cephalomannine was eliminated by ozonolysis and after then separated throughout a normal phase silica column.The whole large-scale process for high purity paclitaxel from the bark extract of Taxus yunnanesis consisted of a preliminary purification with Biotage FLASH 150i systen based on a prepacked normal phase silica cartridge followed by using a C18 Nova-pakTM column in Waters PrepLCTM 4000 prepparative HPLC system. The structure of 7-epi-10-deacetyltaxol was elucidated by 2O NMR technologies of TOCSY, DQF-COSY,HMQC and HMBC, etc.