The invention discloses a high-selectivity green
hydrolysis technology for preparing
benzyl alcohol. The high-selectivity green
hydrolysis technology includes the steps that
sodium formate,
benzyl chloride, water and organic
tertiary amine catalysts are put into a reactor in the
molar ratio of (1.05-1.1):1:7.0:0.02, sufficiently mixed and stirred, and subjected to normal-pressure reacting for 8 h to 9 h at the temperature of 100 DEG C to 115 DEG C, heating is stopped, the temperature is reduced to be 95 DEG C to 105 DEG C, caustic soda with the
molar weight equal to the
molar weight of the
benzyl chloride is put, and the mixture continues to be reacted for 2 h to 3 h; the reacted mixture is filtered,
solid sodium chloride is removed, the liquid-phase product is cooled, and the organic-phase product is separated; the organic-phase product is subjected to rectification separation, and the high-purity
benzyl chloride is obtained; the water-phase product is returned to the reactor again, and repeated
hydrolysis reacting is carried out after the raw materials are supplemented; According to the high-selectivity green hydrolysis technology, the benzyl
chloride is subjected to hydrolysis with the
sodium formate as an assistant and the organic
tertiary amine as a catalyst to prepare
benzyl alcohol, and the adopted organic organic
tertiary amine catalysts are low in price and high in
catalysis efficiency; the water-phase product obtained through the reaction can be recycled, high-salt
wastewater in the production process of the
benzyl alcohol is solved, and meanwhile the content of the
dibenzyl ether is greatly reduced, wherein the content of the
dibenzyl ether is lower than 3.5%.