Method for continuously synthesizing citral through tubular reactor
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of organic synthesis, relates to the synthesis of spices, and particularly relates to a method for continuously synthesizing citral through a tubular reactor.
Background
Citral is one of the most important representatives of open-chain monoterpenes, and is a colorless or yellowish liquid with a strong lemon flavor. Citral can be used for preparing citrus-flavored food flavor, and also for synthesizing isopulegol, hydroxycitronellal and ionone, which is a raw material for synthesizing vitamin A.
At present, the synthesis methods of citral mainly comprise:
(1) CN112642489A reports that linalool is used as a raw material to prepare citral under the condition of bimetallic catalytic oxidation, but the method uses precious metals such as ruthenium, rhodium, iridium, gold, platinum, palladium and the like, and is expensive;
(2) CN104292087 reports that dehydrolinalool is used as a raw material, and a catalyst 1, 2-bis (diphenylphosphino) ethane-bis (2-methylpropenyl) ruthenium is added to perform a catalytic rearrangement reaction in the presence of a solvent ethylbenzene and a cocatalyst carboxylic acid to prepare citral, wherein ethylbenzene is used as the solvent in the method, the volatility of the ethylbenzene is strong, the environment is damaged, and the method also uses a noble metal ruthenium and has poor economical efficiency;
(3) US3912656 reports the synthesis of citral with a catalyst consisting of triphenylsiloxanium oxide and triphenylsilanol, and US3994936 reports the introduction of an electron-withdrawing group into triphenylsiloxanium oxide or trialkylsilyl alcohol to further improve the catalyst activity. However, the triphenyl siloxy vanadium oxide is easy to hydrolyze and has poor stability, the reaction is required to be carried out under anhydrous condition, and the reaction condition is harsh, and meanwhile, the method uses a large amount of expensive trialkyl silanol, so that the method is not suitable for industrial production;
(4) CN104292087A reports that a catalyst prepared from dehydrolinalool as a raw material, molybdenum dioxide bisacetylacetonate and weakly acidic cation exchange resin, petroleum ether as a solvent and dimethyl sulfoxide as a cosolvent react for 9 hours at 120 ℃ to prepare citral.
Therefore, the method for synthesizing citral, which has the advantages of high safety, low cost, high efficiency, environmental protection and no pollution, is developed, and has important practical significance for promoting the industrial production of citral.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention aims to provide the method for continuously synthesizing the citral through the tubular reactor, the method is high in safety, can avoid potential safety hazards caused by severe heat release in the ton-level production process, and is low in cost, high in efficiency, environment-friendly, pollution-free and easy to industrially produce.
The invention is realized by the following technical scheme:
a method for continuously synthesizing citral through a tubular reactor, comprising the following steps:
the method comprises the steps of pre-complexing dehydrolinalool and a copper catalyst to form a homogeneous system, then adding a titanium catalyst and an acid catalyst into the homogeneous system to form a homogeneous solution, finally continuously pumping the homogeneous solution into a tubular reactor from a feed inlet at a certain flow rate through a plug-injection pump, standing in the tubular reactor for reaction, continuously flowing out a crude product after standing reaction from the other port, and performing reduced pressure rectification on the crude product after reaction to obtain a citral product.
The invention further improves the scheme as follows:
the temperature of the retention reaction is 140-180 ℃, and the time is 2-5 min.
Further, the copper catalyst is one or a mixture of cuprous bromide and cuprous chloride.
Further, the temperature of the pre-complexing is 50-100 ℃.
Further, the titanium catalyst is titanium acetylacetonate oxide.
Further, the acid catalyst is one or a mixture of more than two of cinnamic acid, sorbic acid and tiglic acid.
Further, the mass ratio of the dehydrolinalool to the copper catalyst to the titanium catalyst to the acid catalyst is 500: (0.5-4): (2-8): (20-60).
The chemical reaction equation is as follows:
the invention has the following beneficial effects:
the reaction efficiency is greatly improved by mixing the type of the catalyst, the proportion of the catalyst and the reaction temperature, the continuous reaction is facilitated, the continuous production of the citral is realized through a simple tubular reactor, and the problem of violent heat release in large-scale production is solved because the tubular reactor has the characteristics of small volume, large specific surface area and quick heat dissipation;
compared with the traditional method, the invention realizes the continuous production of the citral and saves the time cost and the labor cost of the production; reacting in a tubular reactor for 2-5min to obtain a crude product with the citral content of 92%, wherein the tonnage capacity can be achieved within several minutes, and the industrial production is facilitated; secondly, the required equipment is simple, the occupied space of the equipment is small, and the investment cost of industrial equipment is reduced; compared with the traditional intermittent reaction, the continuous reaction has the characteristics of high safety and avoidance of safety accidents caused by violent exothermic reaction in large-scale production; and the catalyst has the characteristics of recycling, environmental protection, no pollution and the like.
Detailed Description
Example 1
Adding 500 g of dehydrolinalool and 2 g of cuprous bromide into a 1000 mL single-mouth bottle in sequence, stirring uniformly, heating to 80 ℃ until the cuprous bromide is completely dissolved in the solution, then adding 8 g of titanium acetylacetonate and 40 g of cinnamic acid into the solution, stirring uniformly, injecting the mixed solution into a tubular reactor preheated to 160 ℃ through a plug pump, controlling the flow rate at 75 mL/min, controlling the time of the solution flowing through the tubular reactor to be 2 min, detecting and analyzing through gas chromatography, wherein the conversion rate of the raw material dehydrolinalool is 100%, the content of the product citral is 92%, collecting the solution flowing out of the tubular reactor, and obtaining 450 g of citral through reduced pressure rectification, wherein the yield is 90%.
Example 2
Adding 500 g of dehydrolinalool and 2 g of cuprous chloride into a 1000 mL single-mouth bottle in sequence, stirring uniformly, heating to 80 ℃ until cuprous bromide is completely dissolved in the solution, then adding 8 g of titanyl acetylacetonate and 40 g of cinnamic acid into the solution, stirring uniformly, injecting the mixed solution into a tubular reactor preheated to 160 ℃ through a plug pump, controlling the flow rate at 75 mL/min, controlling the time of the solution flowing through the tubular reactor to be 2 min, detecting and analyzing through gas chromatography, wherein the conversion rate of the raw material dehydrolinalool is 100%, the content of the product citral is 91%, collecting the solution flowing out of the tubular reactor, and obtaining 445 g of citral through reduced pressure rectification, wherein the yield is 89%.
Example 3
Adding 500 g of dehydrolinalool and 2 g of cuprous chloride into a 1000 mL single-mouth bottle in sequence, stirring uniformly, heating to 80 ℃ until cuprous bromide is completely dissolved in the solution, then adding 5 g of titanyl acetylacetonate and 30 g of sorbic acid into the solution, stirring uniformly, injecting the mixed solution into a tubular reactor preheated to 160 ℃ through a plug pump, controlling the flow rate at 50 mL/min, controlling the time for the solution to flow through the tubular reactor to be 3 min, detecting and analyzing through gas chromatography, wherein the conversion rate of the raw material dehydrolinalool is 100%, the content of the product citral is 89%, collecting the solution flowing out of the tubular reactor, and carrying out reduced pressure rectification to obtain 440 g of citral, wherein the yield is 88%.
Example 4
Adding 500 g of dehydrolinalool and 2 g of cuprous bromide into a 1000 mL single-mouth bottle in sequence, stirring uniformly, heating to 80 ℃ until the cuprous bromide is completely dissolved in the solution, then adding 5 g of titanyl acetylacetonate and 20 g of tiglic acid into the solution, stirring uniformly, injecting the mixed solution into a tubular reactor preheated to 160 ℃ by using a plug pump, controlling the flow rate at 30 mL/min, controlling the time for the solution to flow through the tubular reactor to be 5min, detecting and analyzing by using a gas chromatography, wherein the conversion rate of the raw material dehydrolinalool is 100%, the content of the product citral is 89%, collecting the solution flowing out of the tubular reactor, and obtaining 437 g of citral by carrying out reduced pressure rectification, wherein the yield is 87.4%.
Example 5
Adding 500 g of dehydrolinalool and 4 g of cuprous chloride into a 1000 mL single-mouth bottle in sequence, stirring uniformly, heating to 80 ℃ until cuprous bromide is completely dissolved in the solution, then adding 8 g of titanyl acetylacetonate and 40 g of tiglic acid into the solution, stirring uniformly, injecting the mixed solution into a tubular reactor preheated to 180 ℃ through a plug pump, controlling the flow rate at 75 mL/min, controlling the time of the solution flowing through the tubular reactor to be 2 min, detecting and analyzing through gas chromatography, wherein the conversion rate of the raw material dehydrolinalool is 100%, the content of the product citral is 92%, collecting the solution flowing out of the tubular reactor, and rectifying under reduced pressure to obtain 448 g of citral, wherein the yield is 89.6%.