The invention provides an isobutyryl
ethyl acetate preparation process which is characterized by comprising the following specific steps: step one, adding 125 mL of
ethyl acetate and 13.6 g (80 mmol)of
potassium mono-ethyl
malonate into a three-neck flask, stirring and cooling to 0-5 DEG C, then sequentially adding 9.12 g (96 mmol) of
anhydrous magnesium chloride and 27.8 mL (0.2 mol) of
triethylamine, heating to 65 DEG C within 0.5 h, and stirring for 6 hours at the temperature of 65 DEG C; step two, cooling to 0 DEG C, dropwise adding 6 mL (57 mmol) of isobutyryl
chloride within one hour, and carrying out reactions at the
room temperature for 12 hours; step three, cooling to 0 DEG C, carefully adding 70 mL of 13%
hydrochloric acid, keeping the temperature not higher than 20 DEG C in theprocess; step four, separating out an organic phase, extracting a
water layer with
toluene (40 mL*3), merging the organic phase, washing with a saturated
sodium bicarbonate solution until the organicphase is neutral, and washing with 25 mL of saturated edible
salt water, and carrying out reduced pressure
distillation to remove the
solvent; and step five, carrying out reduced pressure
distillation on the crude product to obtain 5.5 g of colorless liquid. The method provided by the invention solves the problems of low productivity and low purity during production and manufacturing of isobutyryl
ethyl acetate at present.