The invention discloses a supported bimetallic complex catalyst for synthesizing
isovanillin and a preparation method and application thereof.The catalyst is composed of an inorganic porous carrier and an
active component supported on the inorganic porous carrier, and the
active component is a bimetallic complex formed by Cu, Co and 1, 10-
phenanthroline; the inorganic porous carrier is an SBA-15
molecular sieve or amino-modified Fe3O4 (at) SiO2
magnetic nanoparticles with a core-shell structure. The catalyst is prepared from a
metal salt, a ligand and a carrier in a
solvent through a coordination-loading one-
step method. The catalyst disclosed by the invention is applied to one-step synthesis reaction of
isovanillin by taking heliotropin and
sodium methoxide or
potassium methoxide as raw materials, and shows extremely high catalytic activity and product selectivity (yield gt; and by virtue of the load-type characteristic, especially the application of the magnetic carrier, rapid
magnetic separation and
recovery and repeated recycling can be realized, so that the catalyst is obviously superior to a traditional homogeneous
copper chloride catalytic
system, and has the potential of simple steps, environment friendliness and suitability for industrial production.