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Method for preparing benzyl bromide
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Paragraph 0073-0075, (2017/10/05)
The invention provides a method for preparing benzyl bromide. The method comprises the following steps: by taking bromine released from a redox reaction between bromates and negative bromide ions in the presence of an acid as a bromine source in an organic solvent, carrying out a benzyl radical substitution reaction with a methylbenzene compound shown as a formula I under initiation of an initiator, thereby obtaining a corresponding benzyl bromide compound shown a formula II, wherein in the formula II, m represents the number of Br and is equal to 1 or 2; when m is equal to 1, the formula II shows a benzyl monobromo compound; and when m is equal to 2, the formula II shows a benzyl dibromo compound. The reaction is carried out in an organic solvent, the initiator is combined and used, the radical substitution reaction is high in selectivity and wide in substrate application range, the substituent group replacing methylbenzene may be an electron-withdrawing group or an electron-donating group and can give extremely high yield on strong electron-donating groups (such as methoxy group). Moreover, the method disclosed by the invention is also applicable to preparation of benzyl dibromo compounds, and the product yield is high.