The invention is applied to the technical field of compound preparation, and discloses a synthesis method of o-aminothiophenol, which comprises the following steps: uniformly mixing 2-
chloronitrobenzene, water and strongly basic anion exchange resin, heating, dropwise adding a hydrosulfide
aqueous solution, carrying out heat preservation reaction, cooling and filtering after the reaction is finished, and
drying to obtain the o-aminothiophenol. Eluting the
filter cake with liquid alkali, acidifying and layering to obtain an o-aminothiophenol crude product, and distilling to obtain the product. The
thiophenol and the basic group of the resin are salified, the main reaction for generating 2-nitrothiophenol is promoted in the early stage, and the generation of a nitroreduction byproduct 2-aminochlorobenzene is greatly reduced, so that the product yield is greatly improved; the product stability is improved by salifying, so that disulfides are prevented from being formed by bimolecular oxidation of
thiophenol, reduction is not needed, the product can be obtained by acidification after alkali
elution, the process is shortened, and the cost is reduced; the production process is simple to operate, pressure reaction is avoided, the requirement on equipment is low, and the yield is high and can reach 95% or above; the purity of the obtained product can reach 99% or above.