The invention relates to a
malononitrile synthesis method and belongs to the technical field of
malononitrile synthesis. The
malononitrile synthesis method comprises the following steps of 1, adding
methanol or
ethanol into a reactor, feeding
ammonia gas into the reactor at a temperature of -20 to 50 DEG C, dropwisely adding methyl cyanoacetate or
ethyl cyanoacetate into the reactor at a temperature of -20 to 50 DEG C, after dropwise addition, carrying out heat-preservation stirring, carrying out reduced pressure
degasification until a temperature is reduced to below -10 DEG C and carrying out
filtration and
drying to obtain
cyanoacetamide, and 2, mixing a dehydrant, a catalyst,
cyanoacetamide and a
solvent, heating the mixture for a
reflux reaction lasting for 6h, carrying out cooling and
filtration, removing the
solvent to obtain a crude product, and carrying out reduced pressure rectification to obtain a malononitrile product. The preparation method has less reaction processes, can be operated simply, has a high yield and good product purity, utilizes cheap and easily available raw materials, greatly reduces a production cost, is free of an adsorbent, has a less phosphorous oxychloride use amount, greatly reduces three wastes, realizes easy
recovery and recycle of the
solvent, is suitable for industrial production and solves the problems of the existing a malononitrile synthesis method.