The invention belongs to the field of green
chemical industry, and particularly relates to a preparation method of p-isopropylbenzaldehyde. The method comprises the following steps: putting
benzene, a
solid acid catalyst, a liquid acid catalyst and a cocatalyst
transition metal chloride into a reactor, introducing CO gas, slowly injecting
isopropyl chloride under a stirring condition, reacting for 0.5-12 hours, after the reaction is finished, cooling a reaction mixture,
quenching with
ice water, separating, extracting, and carrying out reduced pressure
distillation to obtain p-isopropylbenzaldehyde, the
solid acid catalyst is AlCl3. The method disclosed by the invention has relatively
high selectivity on the p-isopropylbenzaldehyde, the
benzene conversion rate can be more than or equal to 90%, and the selectivity on the p-isopropylbenzaldehyde is more than or equal to 70%. The method has the advantages of easily available raw materials, few process steps, high conversion rate, high product yield and few byproducts, and has remarkable economic and environmental benefits.