The invention discloses a preparation method of a symmetric
urea compound, which comprises the following steps: by using a
hydroxamic acid compound as a
raw material, sequentially adding an alkali anda
solvent, reacting at 25-50 DEG C for 1-7 hours in an SO2F2
atmosphere, and carrying out aftertreatment on the reaction solution to obtain the symmetric
urea compound. According to the invention, cheap, easily available and environment-friendly SO2F2 is used as an
accelerant to efficiently promote the generation of an
isocyanate intermediate to form a C-N bond. The generation of
isocyanate avoids the use of a large amount of
halogen or
azide dangerous reagents, so that the compound can be used as a green substitute for
standard treatment conditions in
Curtius rearrangement and
Hofmann rearrangement reactions. The amine source in the final product only comes from
hydroxylamine, and no additional amine needs to be added, so that the substrate is wide in applicability, and the correspondingsymmetric
urea compound can be obtained at a relatively good yield. The operation process is simple, the aftertreatment only needs filtering, and the method is suitable for large-scale preparation.