The invention relates to the technical field of
organic compound synthesis, in particular relates to an industrial production method of
benzaldehyde, and aims to improve the product yield, reduce theproduction cost and reduce environmental damage. The preparation method is characterized by comprising the following steps: S1, adding
copper nitrate, water,
silver nitrate and catalyst
potassium chlorate into a reaction device, heating, dropwise adding
benzaldehyde, continuously heating, and carrying out heat preservation to react, so as to obtain a reaction
mixed solution; and S2, filtering thereaction
mixed solution to remove
copper hydroxide precipitates to obtain a mother solution, cooling the mother solution, and filtering to obtain a
solid m-nitrobenzaldehyde crude product with the content of o-nitrobenzaldehyde less than 0.5%; and S3, putting the m-nitrobenzaldehyde crude product into a reaction device, adding 3.0-3.5 volume times of a water-soluble
solvent of the m-nitrobenzaldehyde crude product, heating, filtering to remove insoluble impurities, adding water of the same volume of that of the water-soluble
solvent, filtering, taking out a precipitated
solid, and
drying to obtain the high-purity m-nitrobenzaldehyde.