Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the problems, the invention discloses a mixed chloromethylation catalyst. The novel mixed catalyst is composed of quaternary ammonium salt formed by N-substituted imidazole, pyrazole or piperazine and other double-nitrogen heterocyclic compounds and halogenated alkane, and Lewis acid. The electron-substituted benzene ring compound reacts with methylene chloride generated by aldehydes or polyaldehydes and hydrogen chloride in different forms in the presence of the mixed chloromethylation catalyst to obtain the corresponding para-substituted chlorobenzyl compound. The para-substituted benzyl chloride compound is obtained by the method, and the isomers of the compound are in a controllable proportion range.
The mixed chloromethylation catalyst comprises quaternary ammonium salt and Lewis acid.
Further, in the above technical solution, water or an acidic solution is also included.
Furthermore, in the above technical scheme, in the mixed chloromethylation catalyst, the weight ratio of the quaternary ammonium salt, the Lewis acid and the water or the acid solution is 10-80%, 10-80% and 10-80%.
Further, in the above technical solution, the acidic aqueous solution is selected from an aqueous hydrochloric acid solution, an aqueous sulfuric acid solution, or an aqueous phosphoric acid solution. Aqueous hydrochloric acid is preferred.
Further, in the above technical scheme, the quaternary ammonium salt has the following general formula:
wherein R is2、R3、R4、R5、R6Each independently is H, C1-C20 alkyl or C1-C20 alkoxy C1-C20 alkyl; x is F, Cl, Br or I; the quaternary ammonium salt is generated by the reaction of a double-nitrogen heterocyclic compound and halogenated alkane or halogenated aromatic hydrocarbon, wherein the double-nitrogen heterocyclic compound is selected from N-substituted imidazole, N-substituted pyrazole or N-substituted piperazine;
the halogenated alkane is selected from halogenated C1-C20 alkane, and the halogen is fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine; fluorine, chlorine or bromine are preferred. The halogenated aromatic hydrocarbon is selected from chlorinated aromatic hydrocarbon, brominated aromatic hydrocarbon or fluorinated aromatic hydrocarbon. Among them, halogenated propane, halogenated butane, halogenated isobutane or halogenated pentane is preferable.
The bis-nitrogen heterocyclic compounds forming the quaternary ammonium salts are as follows:
further, in a preferred embodiment, methyl or ethyl substituted imidazole or pyrazole is preferable (R)2=Me,Et)。
Further, in the above technical solution, the lewis acid is selected from tin chloride, antimony chloride, zinc chloride, magnesium chloride, aluminum chloride or cobalt chloride. Tin chloride, antimony chloride, aluminum chloride, zinc chloride are preferred.
The invention discloses a synthesis method of a para-substituted benzyl chloride compound, which comprises the following steps: reacting electron-substituted benzene ring compounds with methylene chloride in the presence of a mixed chloromethylation catalyst as claimed in claim 1 to obtain corresponding para-substituted chlorobenzyl compounds.
A typical operation is as follows:
adding the mixed chloromethylation catalyst into a reaction kettle, sequentially adding benzene containing substituent groups, and then adding formaldehyde or paraformaldehyde (including dimeric and trioxymethylene). Then the temperature is raised to 50-90 ℃ by stirring. Dripping hydrochloric acid into the reaction system or introducing hydrogen chloride gas into the system, preferably introducing hydrogen chloride gas. As the reaction proceeded, the gas chromatography monitored the alkylbenzene content and stopped the reaction when a certain value was reached. And then cooling, standing for layering, separating out a lower layer mixed chloromethylation catalyst, and carrying out alkali washing, water washing and desolventizing on an upper layer of the product to obtain the para-substituted benzyl chloride compound. The separated mixed chloromethylation catalyst is directly used for the synthesis of the para-substituted chlorobenzyl compound of the next batch.
The reaction equations of the para-substituted chlorobenzyl and alkyl substituted benzene related by the invention are as follows:
wherein R is selected from H, C1-C6 alkyl and C1-C6 alkoxy.
Further, in the above technical scheme, the methylene chloride is generated by reacting aldehyde or polyaldehyde with hydrogen chloride.
Further, in the above technical scheme, after the reaction is completed, the mixed chloromethylation catalyst and the organic phase material are subjected to layering separation after standing, and the catalyst is continuously applied for more than 100 times.
In practice, the mixed chloromethylation catalyst will add about 3-5% water to the system for each use. When the weight of the water in the system is increased to more than 50% of the weight of the water in the first use, the water in the system can be removed by reduced pressure distillation, and the water can be reused after the weight of the water is recovered to the weight of the water in the first use.
The use frequency of the mixed catalyst is determined by the chloromethylation effect, and when the chloromethylation effect is poor, the reaction speed is slow, or the impurity generation speed is high, the catalyst can be regarded as invalid and is not used any more, and the treatment is carried out according to danger. Specific number of uses data collected in accordance with the present invention indicate that 200 cycles of use is a reasonable number.
Further, in the above technical scheme, when the water content ratio in the chloromethylation catalyst is high, the catalyst is distilled to remove water and then is continuously used.
The mixed chloromethylation catalyst prepared by the method is used for synthesizing para-substituted chlorobenzyl compounds, the ortho-position isomers and the meta-position isomers are less, the ortho-position isomers and the meta-position isomers are generally controlled to be 4.0-5.0%, and the main product is a para-position product.
The key point of the invention is the synthesis of the mixed chloromethylation catalyst, which comprises the following steps:
the type of quaternary ammonium salt and the synthesis method thereof are one of the technical keys of the invention. The molar ratio of the multi-nitrogen heterocyclic compound to the halogenated alkane is 1.0-5.0: 1, preferably 1.1: 1. the reaction temperature is 50-120 deg.C, preferably 70-90 deg.C.
After the quaternary ammonium salt is synthesized, the quaternary ammonium salt can be solidified at the temperature lower than 50 ℃, and water or hydrochloric acid water solution, sulfuric acid water solution or phosphoric acid water solution which is 1.0 to 20 times of the weight of the quaternary ammonium salt is added into the system. Wherein the concentration of the hydrochloric acid is 1-32%, and the concentration of the sulfuric acid aqueous solution is 1-50%.
The Lewis acid as the component of the mixed chloromethylation catalyst is any one of aluminum trichloride, tin chloride, antimony tetrachloride, zinc chloride and the like. The Lewis acid is added in an amount of 0.5 to 3.0 times, preferably 1.0 to 2.0 times, the weight of the quaternary ammonium salt.
Advantageous effects of the invention
1. The para-chloromethylation with the main chloromethylation product as a substituent has less ortho-meta isomer by using the method. In the reaction process, the isomer ratio is stable and controllable.
2. The mixed catalyst can be recovered and used for hundreds of times. When the catalyst is deactivated, the water in the system is distilled out and the catalyst can be reused.
3. No other waste is generated in the production process, the environment is friendly, and the production cost is low.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENT (S) OF INVENTION
Example 1:
500g of 1-methylpyrazole and 540g of n-butyl chloride were charged into a 5L reactor, and the reactor was heated with stirring. The reaction was refluxed at 90 ℃ for 24 hours, and the starting material was cooled to 50 ℃ by GC or HPLC to monitor completion of the reaction. 1500g of water are added and stirred evenly. Adding 2000g of zinc chloride, and uniformly stirring to obtain the mixed ionic liquid catalyst.
The mixed ionic liquid catalyst obtained above was transferred to a 10L reactor, and 1500g of tert-butyl benzene and 297g of paraformaldehyde were added. Starting stirring and heating to 60-80 ℃. Hydrogen chloride gas was initially introduced into the kettle. And gas escapes from the reflux evacuation port and needs to be connected into the absorption tower. The product content was monitored by GC and the reaction was stopped when the product content reached more than 50% (area normalization). And (3) cooling and layering, separating a lower catalyst layer (used in example 2), adding a saturated sodium bicarbonate solution into an upper material layer, washing, standing and layering. And adding water into the organic layer for washing, and standing for layering. The organic layer was desolventized to obtain 1090g of p-tert-butyl benzyl chloride. 690g of tert-butylbenzene as a raw material was recovered. Product analysis shows that the content of the product is 95 percent by an area normalization method, the content of the m-tert-butyl benzyl chloride is 4.50 percent, and the content of the dimeric impurity is 0.41 percent.
Example 2:
the ionic liquid catalyst obtained by separation in example 1 was transferred to a 10L reactor, and 1500g of t-butyl benzene and 297g of paraformaldehyde were again added. Starting stirring and heating to 60-80 ℃. Hydrogen chloride gas was initially introduced into the kettle. And gas escapes from the reflux evacuation port and needs to be connected into the absorption tower. The product content was monitored by GC and the reaction was stopped when the product content reached more than 50% (area normalization). Cooling and layering, separating out a lower catalyst layer, adding a saturated sodium bicarbonate solution into an upper material layer, washing, standing and layering. And adding water into the organic layer for washing, and standing for layering. The organic layer was desolventized to obtain 1084g of p-tert-butylbenzyl chloride. 694.5g of tert-butylbenzene as a raw material was recovered. Product analysis shows that the content of the product is 94.8 percent by an area normalization method, 4.40 percent of m-tert-butyl benzyl chloride and 0.21 percent of dimeric impurity. The number of times of the mixed ionic liquid catalyst is used repeatedly reaches more than 100 times. The product quality is not obviously reduced. Specific data are not listed.
Example 3:
500g of 1-methylpyrazole and 540g of n-butyl chloride were charged into a 5L reactor, and the reactor was heated with stirring. Heating to 80-90 deg.c, reflux reaction for 24 hr, GC or HPLC monitoring the material reaction, and cooling to 50 deg.c. 1500g of water were added. After stirring, 2000g of aluminum chloride was added. And stirring uniformly to obtain the mixed ionic liquid catalyst.
The mixed ionic liquid catalyst obtained above was transferred to a 10L reactor, and 1500g of tert-butyl benzene and 297g of paraformaldehyde were added. Starting stirring and heating to 60-80 ℃. Hydrogen chloride gas was initially introduced into the kettle. And gas escapes from the reflux evacuation port and needs to be connected into the absorption tower. The product content was monitored by GC and the reaction was stopped when the product content reached more than 50% (area normalization). Cooling and layering, separating out a lower catalyst layer, adding a saturated sodium bicarbonate solution into an upper material layer, washing, standing and layering. And adding water into the organic layer for washing, and standing for layering. The organic layer was desolventized to obtain 1094g of p-tert-butylbenzyl chloride. The starting material tert-butylbenzene 681g was recovered. Product analysis shows that the content of the product is 95.4 percent by an area normalization method, 4.2 percent by m-tert-butyl benzyl chloride and 0.3 percent by dimeric impurity.
The catalyst has good effect on the synthesis of various substituted benzyl chlorides containing para-electron-donating groups, but the occupation ratio of ortho-position isomers can be increased along with the reduction of the number of carbon atoms of electron-donating substituents. And the effect of the tertiary carbon substituent is better than that of the secondary carbon substituent, and the effect of the secondary carbon substituent is better than that of the primary carbon substituent. Specific data are shown in table 1 below:
TABLE 1 reaction conditions for different substituted substrates
Example 4:
500g of 1-methylimidazole and 540g of n-butyl chloride were charged into a 5-liter vessel, and heating was started with stirring. Reflux reaction at 80-90 deg.c for 24 hr, GC or HPLC monitoring the reaction of the material and cooling to 50 deg.c. 1500g of water were added. Stirring evenly, adding 2000g of zinc chloride. And stirring uniformly to obtain the mixed ionic liquid catalyst.
The mixed ionic liquid catalyst is transferred into a 10L reaction kettle, and 1500g of tert-butyl benzene and 297g of paraformaldehyde are added. Starting stirring and heating to 60-80 ℃. Hydrogen chloride gas was initially introduced into the kettle. And gas escapes from the reflux evacuation port and needs to be connected into the absorption tower. The product content was monitored by GC and the reaction was stopped when the product content reached more than 50% (area normalization). Cooling and layering, separating out a lower catalyst layer, adding a saturated sodium bicarbonate solution into an upper material layer, washing, standing and layering. And adding water into the organic layer for washing, and standing for layering. The organic layer was desolventized to obtain 1101g of p-tert-butyl benzyl chloride. 672g of tert-butyl benzene as a raw material are recovered. Product analysis shows that the content of the product is 94.5 percent by an area normalization method, 4.9 percent of m-tert-butyl benzyl chloride and 0.5 percent of dimeric impurity. The number of times of the mixed ionic liquid catalyst is used repeatedly reaches more than 30 times. The product quality is not obviously reduced. The data are not listed. The same applies to the present embodiment for the case described in table 1 above.
The catalyst has good chloromethylation effect on pure benzene and single product. But is less effective for benzene rings having electron-withdrawing groups, and substantially no or little chloromethylation reaction occurs.
The above examples are only intended to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, but not to limit it; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made in the embodiments described in the foregoing embodiments, or equivalent changes and modifications may be made to some of the technical features of the embodiments without departing from the scope of the embodiments of the present invention.