The invention discloses a method for synthesizing 1-chloro-2-bromobenzo[9,10]
phenanthrene, which comprises the following steps: putting
chlorobenzene and butanedioic anhydride into a reaction
bulb, sufficiently stirring, adding HB(OH)2, heating to 40-50 DEG C, stirring uniformly, and standing to
room temperature; adding 7.26g of 2-bromobenzaldehyde and 45mL of
ethanol into the reaction
bulb twice, stirring uniformly, adding 86.0g of 20%
sodium carbonate water solution, quickly adding
tetra(
triphenylphosphine)
palladium, heating from
room temperature to 70-80 DEG C (under
reflux), keeping stirring at such temperature to react for 6 hours, sampling, and carrying out HPLC (
high performance liquid chromatography) central control; after the 2-bromobenzaldehyde is reacted completely, cooling the reaction solution to 25-30 DEG C, and dropwisely adding
methanesulfonic acid at
room temperature; and after the reaction finishes, adding
potassium carbonate into the reaction
bulb, carrying out
phase splitting, filtering and precipitating the
solid powder, wherein the yield is 60.12%, and the HPLC is 99.12%. The method avoids the problems of complex synthesis, incapability of
mass production, environmental
pollution, side reactions and the like in the traditional method.