The invention belongs to the technical field of organic synthetic
chemistry, and discloses a preparation method of an
aromatic ketone compound, which comprises the following steps: by taking an unsaturated carbonyl compound obtained by condensing
aryl acetaldehyde / acid and
aldehyde /
ketone molecules as a precursor, carrying out a reaction on the unsaturated carbonyl compound in the presence of a free radical precursor and
molecular oxygen under the conditions of illumination and / or heating to obtain the
aromatic ketone compound. And carrying out free radical mediated
decarbonylation functionalization reaction in an
organic solvent to obtain the
aromatic ketone compound. The functional group contained in the free radical precursor is introduced to the alpha position of the
ketone compound. By improving reaction participants and a
reaction mechanism, the aromatic
ketone compounds with various structures can be efficiently and highly selectively constructed in one step, the functionalization of the alpha position of the aromatic ketone compounds is synchronously realized, and the preparation method which is simple and convenient to operate, high in
atom economy, green and environment-friendly is provided for the aromatic ketone compounds; the obtained compound is especially applicable to the fields of
drug synthesis and synthesis of other materials.