Ciba-Geigy Corporation

Albert Wurmli

Hans U Berendt

Jean C Petitpierre

Hermann Nachbur

Alain Lauton

Christel Tempel

Hubert Wachsmann

A pressure- or heat-sensitive recording material which, in its color reactant system, contains as a color developer for the color former, at least one substituted resorcinol compound of the formula ##STR1## or a corresponding zinc or aluminium salt, in which R is a carboxyl- or aroyl-free substituent which has a positive Hammett para-sigma value and which is capable of forming, together with the adjacent hydroxyl group, an intramolecular hydrogen bond in the form of a six-membered ring.

Pressure-sensitive or heat-sensitive recording material

A pressure-sensitive or heat-sensitive recording material which contains in its color reactant system, as developer for the color former, at least one metal-free compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is alkyl of 1 to 12 carbon atoms, cycloalkyl, phenyl, benzyl, or phenyl which is substituted by halogen, nitro, methyl, methoxy, ethoxy or methylenedioxy, and X is hydrogen, halogen, carboxyl, lower alkyl or lower alkoxy.

The invention relates to oligomers containing structural units of the formulae ##STR1## wherein X.sub.1 is --CN, --COOR.sub.1, --OOCR.sub.2 or --CONHR.sub.3, Y.sub.1 is --COOH or --COOM.sub.2, Y.sub.2 is --CONH.sub.2, --CH.sub.2 OH, --OCH.sub.3 or --OC.sub.2 H.sub.5, each of Z.sub.1, Z.sub.2 and Z.sub.3 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, each of M.sub.1 and M.sub.2 is an amine cation, an ammonium cation or an alkali metal cation, and each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -hydroxyalkyl or alkoxyalkyl containing altogether at most 8 carbon atoms, fatliquoring the treated leather and drying it, and, if appropriate, additionally dyeing said treated leather before or after it has been fatliquored. These oligomers are suitable for use as tanning agents in a process for retanning chrome-tanned leather. The oligomers are prepared by copolymerizing comonomers of the acrylic acid series corresponding to the structural units of the indicated formulae, in the presence of sulfite or hydrogen sulfites of the formulae SO.sub.3 (M).sub.2 or HSO.sub.3 M, and have an average molecular weight of at most 14,000.

Process for retanning leather with acrylic-based oligomers

New condensation products of the formula ##STR1## wherein R represents alkyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl, aryl, or halogen, M represents hydrogen, an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal or an ammonium group, and n is a number from 1 to 3; these products are particularly useful as dyeing assistants for dyeing synthetic polyamide fibres with anionic dyes.

Condensation products containing sulphonic acid groups: additives for

New condensation products of the formula ##STR1## wherein R represents alkyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl, aryl, or halogen. M represents hydrogen, an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal or an ammonium group, and n is a number from 1 to 3; these products are particularly useful as dyeing assistants for dyeing synthetic polyamide fibres with anionic dyes.

Condensation products containing sulphonic acid groups

The invention relates to sulphonated, aromatic reaction products as agents for tanning hides and leather. They are obtained by reacting a sulphonation product, which is previously formed from a diphenyl ether, a phenol and a sulphonating agent, with formaldehyde, with a reaction mixture of an aminoplast-forming agent and formaldehyde or with an aminoplast precondensate.

Sulphonated, aromatic reaction products, processes for their manufacture

The invention relates to reaction products of phenolsulphonic acid-urea-formaldehyde as agents for tanning of skins or leather. They are manufactured from a hydroxyphenylsulphone-hydroxyphenyl-monosulphonic acid which is condensed with an alkoxybenzene, this condensation product being reacted at elevated temperature in an aqueous-acid medium with an urea formaldehyde mixture or with a methylolated urea.

Reaction products of phenolsulphonic acid-urea-formaldehyde as tanning

A process for the filling of leather tanned with mineral, vegetable and/or synthetic tanning agents by treating the leather, in the acid pH-range , with an aqueous solution of a filling agent consisting of unsubstituted or substituted homo- or copolymeric acrylic acids and protein glue, alone or in admixture with further additives, as well as dry or liquid compositions thereof, are disclosed; thereby an even fullness of the leather is obtained without impairing the handle, the buffing properties, the tightness of the grain, the fine grain or the dyeability of said leathers.

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Albert Wurmli