Study on Synthesis of 2-Hydroxy-6-Naphthoic Acid from 2-Naphthol and Improve the Synthetic Process

2-Hydroxy-6-naphthoic acid is an main raw material for the synthesis of polyaromatic ester, it was synthesized from 2-Naphthol by methoxylation, bromization, grignard reaction and demethylation before recrystallization (C2H5OH:H2O=2.8:1 m/m) with an overall yield of 78.5% and content of 99.1%. Furthermore, the results showed that the 6-bromo-2-methoxynaphthalene was prepared using Sn as reducing agent with 96.2% of the yield which is higher than 6-bromo-2-methoxynaphthalene was prepared using solid carbon dioxide and grignard reagent with 23.8% of the yield.