Patent ID: 8735626

Claim:
A method of producing an aromatic amino compound by using, as starting materials, an amine compound selected from a compound represented by the following general formula (1): R—NH—Ar (1) wherein R is a hydrogen atom or an aromatic ring group, and Ar is an aromatic ring group, and a halogenated aromatic compound; and reacting said amine compound with said halogenated aromatic compound in the presence of a copper catalyst and a base so as to produce the aromatic amino compound having a structure in which an aromatic ring group derived from said halogenated aromatic compound is coupled to the amino group of said amine compound; wherein said amine compound and said halogenated aromatic compound are reacted together under a condition where an aromatic oxycarboxylic acid having a hydroxyl group and a hydroxycarbonyl group that are bonded to the neighboring carbon atoms thereof, is made present together with said copper catalyst and said base, and wherein (a) the aromatic oxycarboxylic acid is represented by the following general formula (2), and wherein (b) in general formula (2), at least any one of the groups R 1 to R 4 is an alkyl group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms, an alkyloxy group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 5 to 8 carbon atoms, an aromatic hydrocarbon group, an aromatic heterocyclic group or a fluorine atom; and (c) the aromatic oxycarboxylic acid is used in an amount of 0.8 to 3 moles per mol of the copper catalyst.