The invention discloses a method for synthesis of
ferulic acid ester by
solid acid catalysis, and relates to a method for synthesis of the
ferulic acid ester, and the method is as follows: a, preparation of silica
powder, to be more specific, taking
sodium metasilicate nonahydrate to prepare into
aqueous solution, starting to stir, heating, adding dropwise
ethyl acetate, after gel is formed, performing low temperature
vacuum drying to obtain white silica
powder; b, catalyst preparation, to be more specific, putting the silica
powder prepared by the step a into a
muffle furnace for activation, mixing into
aqueous solution of
sodium bisulfate, soaking, filtering by suction, washing with
distilled water until the filtrate is colorless,
processing by low-temperature
vacuum drying for standby use; c, catalyzed synthesis of the
ferulic acid ester, to be more specific, adding ferulic acid,
alcohol and a catalyst into a three necked flask equipped with a stirrer, a
thermometer, a
reflux condenser and a water separator, stirring, heating for
reflux until no water is separated out in the water separator; and d,
drying and
recovery. The process is simple, cheap, non-toxic, non-corrosive and
environmentally friendly, catalytic activity is high, catalytic reaction products are easy to separate and can be repeatedly used.