The invention discloses a synthetic method of a diaryl
methanol compound. Compared with a reported method for obtaining the diaryl
methanol compound through catalytic reduction by taking
diaryl ketone as an initial
raw material, the method is characterized by taking substituted
benzyl bromide and substituted
phenylboronic acid which are cheap and easy to obtain as initial raw materials, reacting for 4 hours in an alkaline solution, water or a mixed
solvent of the water and an
organic solvent under
room temperature in air, and carrying out simple separation and purification operation, thus obtaining a pure product. A catalyst adopted in the method is a
palladium compound / an in-situ catalytic
system prepared from
phosphorus- and
oxygen-containing carboxylic acids ligands, the catalytic
system is cheap in price, high in catalytic activity and good in selectivity and is stable in the air and a water solution, the diaryl
methanol compound is compounded through a method of catalyzing the substituted
benzyl bromide and the substituted
phenylboronic acid and a 'one-pot reaction method' of
hydrogen peroxide, the reaction steps are less, after-treatment is simple, the product is easy to separate and purify, the yield is high, and the mixed
solvent is prepared from cheap and easy-to-obtain water and the
organic solvent, so that the environment is not polluted, and environment protection is realized.