The application belongs to the technical field of organic
chemical synthesis and
heterogeneous catalysis, and particularly relates to a catalyst for preparing 2,4-dimethyl-3-
pentanone from
isobutyric acid or isobutyric anhydride and a preparation method thereof. The application overcomes key technical bottlenecks in the existing gas-phase ketonization reaction, such as serious
cracking side reactions, quick deactivation of the catalyst due to
carbon deposition, and low selectivity of the target product. The application provides a method for efficiently preparing 2,4-dimethyl-3-
pentanone from
isobutyric acid or isobutyric anhydride. The method innovatively constructs a modified HZSM-5
molecular sieve catalyst with a micropore-mesopore multi-level pore structure, and introduces specific
metal oxide active components to construct acid-base synergistic active centers, thereby realizing directional regulation of the
reaction path. The method not only significantly inhibits the competitive monomolecular
cracking reaction, greatly improves the selectivity of the bimolecular
coupling ketonization reaction for generating 2,4-dimethyl-3-
pentanone, but also effectively eliminates the
diffusion resistance of macromolecular products by using mesoporous channels, thereby fundamentally solving the problem of easy
carbon deposition and deactivation of the catalyst, and having excellent industrial application prospects and technical progress.