The invention discloses a method for synthesizing 3-hydroxy
biphenyl, which is characterized by comprising the following steps of: under the protection of
inert gas or N2 gas, using THF as a
solvent,reacting
bromoanisole with
magnesium scraps to obtain a
Grignard reagent; reacting
Grignard reagent with
bromobenzene in the presence of a catalyst dpppNiCl2, adding an acid solution for
quenching reaction, layering, extracting water phase, separating liquid, combining the obtained organic phases, washing,
drying, concentrating, and distilling to obtain an intermediate 3-methoxybiphenyl; adding the 3-methoxybiphenyl into glacial
acetic acid, adding a 48% HBr solution, heating, refluxing, aging, cooling, extracting and separating, mixing the obtained organic phases, washing,
drying, concentrating, and recrystallizing
toluene to obtain the 3-hydroxy
biphenyl. The method has the advantages of convenient operation, easy control of reaction and simple requirement on reaction equipment, the whole process is suitable for industrial production, and the GC purity of the prepared 3-hydroxy
biphenyl can reach more than 99%, and the total yield is more than 60%.