The invention relates to a process for the catalytic synthesis of
bisphenol fluorene by using concentrated sulphuric acid. Concentrated sulphuric acid is taken as catalyst, beta-mercapto propionic acid is taken as cocatalyst,
phenol is taken as reactant and
solvent, reaction with
fluorenone is fully carried out under mild condition, one organic polar
solvent and water are added, so as to cause unreacted
phenol and product are layered with concentrated sulphuric acid; water phase is removed, the obtained organic phase is washed by alkaline solution and
softened water step by step, condition is controlled and reduced pressure
distillation is carried out to obtain the organic polar
solvent and
phenol respectively, temperature reduction is carried out, then recrystallization solvent is added for recrystallization, thus obtaining
bisphenol fluorine white
solid the purity of which is more than 99.0%. The process has low
reaction temperature, short time,
high productivity more than 90% and high purity more than 99.0%; besides, the used catalyst concentrated sulphuric acid and cocatalyst beta-mercapto propionic acid are low in cost, concentrated sulphuric acid consumption is low, phenol is easy to recycled,
recovery rate reaches 80%, and environmental
pollution is less, thus the method is applicable to industrialized production.