The invention discloses a
copper-catalyzed
aryl aldehyde ortho-position direct C-H etherification method, which comprises the following steps: by taking
aryl aldehyde as a
raw material, adding
alcohol or
phenol as shown in a formula (II), a
copper catalyst, a guiding group, alkali and a
solvent into a reactor, and reacting in an
argon gas
atmosphere to prepare an
aryl ether compound as shown in a formula (III), a
substituent group R1 is
hydrogen, methyl,
trifluoromethyl, methoxyl, phenyl, iodo,
isopropyl,
trimethylsilyl, dimethylamino, fluoro,
chlorine, ester,
tourmaline, naphthyl, isoquinolyl, benzothienyl or phenanthryl; a
substituent group R2 is
hydrogen, methyl,
trifluoromethyl, methoxyl, phenyl, iodo,
isopropyl,
trimethylsilyl, dimethylamino, fluoro,
chlorine, ester,
tourmaline, naphthyl, isoquinolyl, benzothienyl or phenanthryl; and a
substituent group R2 is methyl, 4-fluorophenyl,
cyclobutane methyl, 4-tert-butyl phenyl, pentafluorophenyl, 4-cyanophenyl, 4-methyl ester phenyl, 3-nitrophenyl,
adamantane methyl, cyclohexyl or an oestrone analogue. The
copper catalyst and
amino acid which are low in cost and easy to obtain are used as guiding groups, the operation process is simple and efficient, and the corresponding aryl
ether compound can be obtained with the good yield.