Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a safe, environment-friendly and low-cost 2,2' -bipyridyl production process. The process takes acetonitrile and acetylene as starting materials, generates 2-methylpyridine by bis (cyclopentadienyl) cobalt catalytic cyclization, then generates 2-cyanopyridine by tetraphenylporphyrin cobalt catalysis with ammonia gas, and finally generates 2,2' -bipyridine by bis (cyclopentadienyl) cobalt catalytic cyclization with acetylene, and the process route is as follows:
the specific process steps of the process route of the invention are as follows:
the first step is as follows: adding acetonitrile and bis (cyclopentadienyl) cobalt into a high-pressure reaction kettle, vacuumizing, introducing deoxygenated acetylene gas, heating to 130-;
the second step is that: vaporizing 2-methylpyridine, mixing the vaporized 2-methylpyridine with ammonia gas and air, feeding the mixture into a fixed bed reactor filled with a cobalt catalyst, heating the mixture to the temperature of 300 ℃ and 320 ℃, maintaining the total pressure at 8-15 kg, and after the reaction is finished, carrying out reduced pressure distillation to obtain 2-cyanopyridine;
the third step: adding 2-cyanopyridine and bis (cyclopentadienyl) cobalt into xylene in a high-pressure reaction kettle, vacuumizing, introducing deoxygenated acetylene gas, heating to 150 ℃ and 180 ℃, maintaining the total pressure at 8-18 kg, and after the reaction is finished, carrying out reduced pressure distillation to obtain 2,2' -bipyridine, and recycling the xylene.
Further, in the above technical solution, in the first step and the third step, other cobaltocene catalysts can be used, and the structural general formula is as follows:
wherein n is 1, 3; r is alkyl or aryl, and the substitution type is mono-substituted or multi-substituted.
Preferably, in the actual catalytic reaction process, it is best to have cyclopentadienyl rings different from each other up and down, one of the cyclopentadienyl rings is a simple five-membered ring (n ═ 1, R ═ H), and the other cyclopentadienyl ring is a polysubstituted seven-ring (n ═ 1, R ═ Me).
Further, in the above technical scheme, in the first step, the mass ratio of acetonitrile to bis (cyclopentadienyl) cobalt is 350-200: 1.
Further, in the above technical solution, in the second step, the cobalt porphyrin catalyst is cobalt tetraphenylporphyrin. The addition of equivalent NaBAr4 is beneficial to improving the catalytic activity and reducing the reaction time.
Further, in the above technical solution, in the second step, the mass ratio of the 2-methylpyridine to the cobalt catalyst is 850-: 1.
further, in the above technical scheme, in the third step, the mass ratio of 2-cyanopyridine to bis (cyclopentadienyl) cobalt is 250-150: 1.
Advantageous effects of the invention
1. The invention does not need a large amount of metal, only needs a small amount of catalyst, and has less three wastes;
2. the invention adopts the metallic cobalt catalyst to complete the whole operation, and selects different ligands to adjust the activity of the catalyst according to the reaction characteristics of each step, thereby realizing different reaction types.
Detailed Description
Example 1
The embodiment comprises the following steps:
step one, adding 100kg of acetonitrile and 0.4kg of bis (cyclopentadienyl) cobalt into a high-pressure reaction kettle, vacuumizing, introducing deoxygenated acetylene gas, heating to 150 ℃, maintaining the total pressure at 12 kg, reacting for 22h, and carrying out reduced pressure distillation to obtain 211kg of 2-methylpyridine, a colorless transparent liquid and the yield of 93%; HNMR (400MHz, CDCl3) 8.51(m,1H),7.57-7.60(m,1H),7.05-7.08(m,1H),7.15-7.17(m,1H),2.58(s,3H).
Secondly, 211kg of 2-methylpyridine is vaporized and mixed with ammonia gas and air, the mixture enters a fixed bed reactor filled with 0.3kg of cobalt tetraphenylporphyrin, the temperature is raised to 320 ℃, the total pressure is maintained at 9kg, the reaction is carried out for 20 hours, 213.5kg of 2-cyanopyridine is obtained by reduced pressure distillation, the mixture is cooled and solidified into light yellow solid, and the yield is 90.5%; HNMR (400MHz, CDCl3) 8.73-8.75(m,1H),7.85-7.89(m,1H),7.71-7.74(m,1H),7.54-7.57(m,1H).
Step three, adding 213.5kg of 2-cyanopyridine and 0.97kg of bis (cyclopentadienyl) cobalt into 500L of dimethylbenzene in a high-pressure reaction kettle, vacuumizing, introducing deoxygenated acetylene gas, heating to 170 ℃, maintaining the total pressure at 8kg, reacting for 26 hours, carrying out reduced pressure distillation to obtain 303kg of 2,2' -bipyridine, cooling to obtain a white solid, and melting point: 69-70 ℃, m/z 156.1, GC: 99.4%, yield 94.6%. H NMR (400MHz in CDCl3) 7.28-7.32(m,2H),7.80-7.84(m,2H),8.40(d,2H),8.68(d,2H).
Example 2
The embodiment comprises the following steps:
step one, adding 100kg of acetonitrile and 0.5kg of (cyclopentadienyl cycloheptadiene) cobalt into a high-pressure reaction kettle, vacuumizing, introducing deoxygenated acetylene gas, heating to 150 ℃, maintaining the total pressure at 10 kg, reacting for 22h, and carrying out reduced pressure distillation to obtain 207.8kg of 2-methylpyridine, colorless transparent liquid and the yield of 91.6%; HNMR (400MHz, CDCl3) 8.51(m,1H),7.57-7.60(m,1H),7.05-7.08(m,1H),7.15-7.17(m,1H),2.58(s,3H).
Secondly, vaporizing 207.8kg of 2-methylpyridine, mixing the vaporized 2-methylpyridine with ammonia gas and air, feeding the mixture into a fixed bed reactor filled with 0.26kg of cobalt tetraphenylporphyrin, heating the mixture to 320 ℃, maintaining the total pressure at 13 kg, reacting for 18h, carrying out reduced pressure distillation to obtain 215.3kg of 2-cyanopyridine, cooling and solidifying the 2-cyanopyridine into light yellow solid with the yield of 92.7 percent; HNMR (400MHz, CDCl3) 8.73-8.75(m,1H),7.85-7.89(m,1H),7.71-7.74(m,1H),7.54-7.57(m,1H).
Step three, adding 215.3kg of 2-cyanopyridine and 1.2kg of (cyclopentadienyl cycloheptadiene) cobalt into 500L of dimethylbenzene in a high-pressure reaction kettle, vacuumizing, introducing deoxygenated acetylene gas, heating to 170 ℃, maintaining the total pressure at 15 kg, reacting for 16h, carrying out reduced pressure distillation to obtain 314.6kg of 2,2' -bipyridine, cooling to obtain a white solid, and melting point: 69-70 ℃, m/z 156.1, GC: 99.7 percent, the yield is 97.4 percent, and the dimethylbenzene is recycled and reused. H NMR (400MHz in CDCl3) 7.28-7.32(m,2H),7.80-7.84(m,2H),8.40(d,2H),8.68(d,2H).
Example 3
The embodiment comprises the following steps:
step one, adding 100kg of acetonitrile and 0.36kg of (full methyl cyclopentadiene/cycloheptadiene) cobalt into a high-pressure reaction kettle, vacuumizing, introducing deoxygenated acetylene gas, heating to 150 ℃, maintaining the total pressure at 13 kg, reacting for 22h, and carrying out reduced pressure distillation to obtain 213.9kg of 2-methylpyridine, colorless transparent liquid and the yield of 94.3%; HNMR (400MHz, CDCl3) 8.51(m,1H),7.57-7.60(m,1H),7.05-7.08(m,1H),7.15-7.17(m,1H),2.58(s,3H).
Secondly, vaporizing 213.9kg of 2-methylpyridine, mixing the vaporized 2-methylpyridine with ammonia gas and air, feeding the mixture into a fixed bed reactor filled with 0.31kg of cobalt tetraphenylporphyrin and equivalent NaBAr4(Ar is 3, 5-bis (trifluoromethyl) phenyl), heating to 300 ℃, maintaining the total pressure at 12 kg, reacting for 2h, carrying out reduced pressure distillation to obtain 228.8kg of 2-cyanopyridine, cooling and solidifying the 2-cyanopyridine into light yellow solid with the yield of 95.7%; HNMR (400MHz, CDCl3) 8.73-8.75(m,1H),7.85-7.89(m,1H),7.71-7.74(m,1H),7.54-7.57(m,1H).
Step three, in a high-pressure reaction kettle, adding 228.8kg of 2-cyanopyridine and 0.95kg of (fully methylcyclopentadiene/cycloheptadiene) cobalt into 500L of xylene recovered in example 2, vacuumizing, introducing deoxygenated acetylene gas, heating to 170 ℃, maintaining the total pressure at 12 kg, reacting for 16h, distilling under reduced pressure to obtain 324kg of 2,2' -bipyridine, cooling to obtain a white solid, and melting point: 69-70 ℃, m/z 156.1, GC: 99.9% and 94.4% yield. H NMR (400MHz in CDCl3) 7.28-7.32(m,2H),7.80-7.84(m,2H),8.40(d,2H),8.68(d,2H).
The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention in any way. Any simple modification, change and equivalent changes of the above embodiments according to the technical essence of the invention are still within the protection scope of the technical solution of the invention.