Process for preparing 5-chloromethyl furfural from fructose
Technical Field
The invention relates to a process for preparing 5-chloromethyl furfural from fructose.
Background
The English name of 5-chloromethyl furfural is 5-chloromethyl furan, which is called 5-CMF for short. The molecular weight of 5-chloromethyl furfural is 144, and the molecular formula is C6H5O2And (4) Cl. 5-chloromethyl furfural is a very potential platform compound and a chemical intermediate product, contains a chlorine atom and an aldehyde group in molecules, has good chemical reaction activity, has considerable application prospects in medicine synthesis, chemical synthesis and industrial production, and realizes the preparation of important medicines, such as 5-aminolevulinic acid, ranitidine and the like, by taking 5-CMF as a raw material by the prior art. Therefore, the preparation of 5-chloromethyl furfural by using biomass-based sugars with wide natural sources as raw materials has an important promotion effect on the research and development of novel platform compounds, and has a certain positive significance on the promotion of the recycling of renewable biomass. At present, researches on direct preparation of 5-CMF by using biomass as a raw material are few, and concentrated hydrochloric acid is used as a catalyst and a reaction solvent for 5-CMF reaction and dichloroethane is used as a reaction extractant in a catalytic system for preparing 5-CMF by dehydrating carbohydrate reported in the literature. The current preparation process of 5-CMF still existsThe method has many inevitable defects, such as environmental pollution and equipment corrosion easily caused by excessive concentrated hydrochloric acid serving as a reaction solvent, high toxicity of dichloroethane serving as a reaction extractant, easy harm to human health and environment, difficult product separation and difficulty in realizing large-scale production.
The Eutectic solvent (Deep Eutectic Solvents), DES for short, refers to a two-component or three-component Eutectic mixture composed of hydrogen bond acceptors (such as quaternary ammonium salt) and hydrogen bond donors (such as amide, carboxylic acid and polyalcohol compounds) in a certain stoichiometric ratio, and the freezing point of the Eutectic mixture is significantly lower than the melting point of pure substances of each component. The physical and chemical properties of the eutectic solvent are very similar to those of the ionic liquid, so that the eutectic solvent is also classified as a novel ionic liquid or an ionic liquid analogue.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to overcome the defects of the prior art, provides a process for preparing 5-chloromethyl furfural from fructose, and solves the problems in the background technology.
The technical scheme adopted by the invention for solving the technical problems is as follows: a process for preparing 5-chloromethyl furfural from fructose comprises the steps of mixing fructose and choline chloride, adding hydrochloric acid into the mixture of the fructose and the choline chloride, and stirring and reacting at 70-110 ℃ for 60-180 minutes to obtain a eutectic solvent system; dissolving the reaction mixture by deionized water, extracting the aqueous solution of the reaction mixture by an organic solvent, and carrying out organic phase separation to obtain a target product 5-chloromethyl furfural;
wherein the mass ratio of the fructose to the choline chloride to the hydrochloric acid is 1: 2-4: 0.5-2. Hydrochloric acid is used as an acid catalyst and a chlorinated raw material, and the mass fraction of the hydrochloric acid is 38%. Choline chloride, also known as 2-hydroxyethyl trimethylammonium chloride, can form a eutectic solvent with fructose well at a certain temperature, and the substance is green, environment-friendly and low in price.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the organic solvent includes ethyl acetate, dichloromethane, and dichloroethane.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the amount of the organic solvent is 20 to 40mL per gram of the fructose raw material.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the mass ratio of the fructose, the choline chloride and the hydrochloric acid is 1:4: 1.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the maximum yield of 5-chloromethylfurfural is 90.0%.
Compared with the background technology, the technical scheme has the following advantages:
1. compared with the traditional method for preparing 5-CMF by dehydrating saccharides by using excessive concentrated hydrochloric acid, the method disclosed by the invention uses low-dosage hydrochloric acid as a catalyst, and the dosage concentration of the hydrochloric acid is lower relative to that of the whole reaction system, namely in the eutectic reaction system, the dosage of the hydrochloric acid solution is 1/6 of the system, so that the 5-CMF can be efficiently prepared in a fructose/choline chloride DES system, and the method is more green and environment-friendly;
2. the invention greatly reduces the consumption of hydrochloric acid required in the production process of 5-CMF, reduces the corrosion risk of reaction equipment, and the highest yield of 5-CMF can reach 90%;
3. compared with the traditional hydrochloric acid/dichloroethane reaction system, the method adopts choline chloride and fructose to form a eutectic solvent as the reaction system, then dissolves in deionized water and uses an organic solvent to extract the 5-CMF product, can flexibly select the organic extractant, avoids directly using a highly toxic reaction solvent to be directly applied to reaction preparation, and provides a novel idea for the research of the 5-chloromethyl furfural and downstream products thereof in the future.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a GC-MS spectrum of the 5-CMF product of example 1.
Detailed Description
Example 1
Putting 1g of fructose, 4g of choline chloride and 1g of hydrochloric acid (the mass fraction is 38%) in a round-bottom flask, uniformly mixing, heating to 80 ℃ in an oil bath kettle, reacting for 120min, after the reaction is finished, cooling the reaction mixture to room temperature, dissolving the reaction mixture in 20mL of deionized water, extracting the reaction product with 40mL of ethyl acetate, and measuring the yield of 5-CMF to be 90.0%. (as shown in FIG. 1)
Example 2
1g of fructose, 2g of choline chloride and 0.5g of hydrochloric acid (the mass fraction is 38%) are placed in a round-bottom flask and uniformly mixed, the mixture is heated to 110 ℃ in an oil bath kettle and reacted for 60min, after the reaction is finished, the reaction mixture is cooled to room temperature, the reaction mixture is dissolved in 20mL of deionized water, the reaction product is extracted by 30mL of dichloroethane, and the yield of 5-CMF is 35.3%.
Example 3
Putting 1g of fructose, 4g of choline chloride and 2g of hydrochloric acid (the mass fraction is 38%) in a round-bottom flask, uniformly mixing, heating to 80 ℃ in an oil bath kettle, reacting for 180min, after the reaction is finished, cooling the reaction mixture to room temperature, dissolving the reaction mixture in 20mL of deionized water, extracting the reaction product with 30mL of dichloromethane, and measuring the yield of 5-CMF to be 46.4%.
Example 4
1g of fructose, 3g of choline chloride and 1.5g of hydrochloric acid (the mass fraction is 38%) are placed in a round-bottom flask and uniformly mixed, the mixture is heated to 100 ℃ in an oil bath kettle and reacts for 120min, after the reaction is finished, the reaction mixture is cooled to room temperature, the reaction mixture is dissolved in 10mL of deionized water, the reaction product is extracted by 20mL of ethyl acetate, and the yield of 5-CMF is 70.5%.
Example 5
1g of fructose, 2g of choline chloride and 0.8g of hydrochloric acid (the mass fraction is 38%) are placed in a round-bottom flask and uniformly mixed, the mixture is heated to 70 ℃ in an oil bath kettle and reacts for 80min, after the reaction is finished, the reaction mixture is cooled to room temperature, the reaction mixture is dissolved in 20mL of deionized water, 40mL of dichloroethane is used for extracting a reaction product, and the yield of 5-CMF is 32.6%.
Example 6
Putting 1g of fructose, 4g of choline chloride and 1g of hydrochloric acid (the mass fraction is 38%) in a round-bottom flask, uniformly mixing, heating to 100 ℃ in an oil bath kettle, reacting for 160min, after the reaction is finished, cooling the reaction mixture to room temperature, dissolving the reaction mixture in 20mL of deionized water, extracting the reaction product by using 40mL of dichloroethane, and measuring the yield of 5-CMF to be 88.1%.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and therefore should not be taken as limiting the scope of the invention, which is defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.