The invention belongs to the technical field of
organic synthesis, and particularly relates to 1, 1, 1, 3-tetrachloropropane and a synthesis method thereof. The synthesis method comprises the following steps: adding a carbon-coated
elemental iron catalyst, a cocatalyst and
carbon tetrachloride into a reaction kettle, heating to a
reaction temperature, introducing
ethylene to a reaction pressure, carrying out a reaction while keeping the temperature and the pressure to obtain a crude tetrachloropropane product, and filtering and rectifying the crude tetrachloropropane product to obtain 1, 1, 1, 3-tetrachloropropane, the preparation method of the coated
elemental iron catalyst comprises the following steps: dissolving
ferric citrate in
ethanol, uniformly stirring to obtain a precursor solution,
drying in a
vacuum drying oven at 50 DEG C to obtain precursor
powder, and performing high-temperature
pyrolysis on the precursor
powder in an
inert atmosphere to obtain the
carbon coated elemental iron catalyst. The synthesis reaction of 1, 1, 1, 3-tetrachloropropane disclosed by the invention has the advantages of
high carbon tetrachloride conversion rate, high tetrachloropropane selectivity, short reaction time and small by-product generation amount.