The invention discloses a method for synthesizing N-Boc-3-
pyrrolidine formaldehyde, which comprises the following steps of: (1) adding 1mol of
glycine and 0.5 to 1.5mol of
acrylonitrile into a methylbenzene
solvent, refluxing the solution under the action of 1.5 to 2.5mol of
paraformaldehyde, cooling and then performing suction filtering on the solution, concentrating the mother solution, distilling the mother solution under reduced pressure, and collecting the fraction of 102 to 105 degrees to obtain 3-cyanopyrrolidine; (2) adding 0.5mol of 3-cyanopyrrolidine obtained in the step (1) into
dichloromethane, dripping 0.4 to 0.6mol of Boc
acid anhydride into the solution at
room temperature under the action of 0.5 to 0.75mol of
triethylamine, performing
room temperature reaction, washing the reaction solution by using
hydrochloric acid solution, and separating,
drying and concentrating the solution to obtain N-Boc-3-cyanopyrrolidine; and (3) dissolving 0.4mol of N-Boc-3-cyanopyrrolidine obtained in the step (2) into
dichloromethane, cooling the solution, dripping 0.4 to 0.6mol of di-isobutyl
aluminum hydride into the solution, dripping
hydrochloric acid solution into the reaction solution after reaction to quench the reaction, separating the solution, concentrating the organic phase, distilling the concentrate under reduced pressure, and collecting the fraction of 110 to 114 degrees to obtain the N-Boc-3-
pyrrolidine formaldehyde. The synthesizing method has a few steps, high yield and low cost, and is suitable for industrial large-scale production.