The invention discloses a synthetic method for preparing 1-isobutyryl-2-pyrrolidone through green
catalysis, and belongs to the technical field of
chemical synthesis. The synthesis method comprises the following synthesis steps: replacing a reactor with
nitrogen for three times, filling
nitrogen and sealing; the preparation method comprises the following steps: under the protection of
nitrogen, dissolving 5.0 mmol of pyrrolidone, 2.75 mmol of isobutyric anhydride and a functional catalyst in 10mL of
tetrahydrofuran; cooling to 0 DEG C in an ice bath, slowly dropwise adding
triethylamine, and maintaining the
system temperature lt; raising the temperature to 25 DEG C from 5 DEG C, reacting for 6 hours, and monitoring the reaction process through TLC; adding 5mL of 1M HCl for
quenching, extracting with
ethyl acetate for three times (20mL each time), combining an organic phase S5, washing the organic phase with NaHCO, and
drying with MgSO; adjusting a water phase with quick
lime, standing for layering, and discharging lower-layer water to obtain water-containing
triethylamine; and S7, carrying out suction
filtration on the organic phase, carrying out rotary
evaporation to remove the
solvent, and carrying out
silica gel column chromatography separation on the residue. According to the method, a DMAP + CuI dual-catalyst
system is adopted, so that the diacylation by-products are remarkably reduced, and the yield is increased by 10% or above and is not lower than 97%.