Imperial Chemical Industries Limited

Duncan Adrian Phillips

David F Newton

Colin William Greenhalgh

Gerald Williams

Dennis Eckersley

Kenneth Dunkerley

Ian Cheetham

Vibhas Chokshi

John Anthony Taylor

Cecil V Stead

Alan T Costello

Brian Anderson

Chu K Yung

Gerard Ellis

Neville Jackson

A water-soluble reactive dye of the formula:

Reactive dyes

A dyestuff of the formula ##STR1## where D is a chromophoric residue

Reactive dyestuffs containing chlorine or fluorine substituents and one

Dyeing nylon by applying sulphonated or unsulphonated dyestuffs containing cyclic anhydride groups, anhydride forming dicarboxylic acid groups or half-esters or half-amides thereof, as free acids or as salts with ammonia or volatile amines, and heating the fibre until dyestuff fixation takes place.

Dyeing process

Dyeing cellulose or cellulose/polyester blends by applying unsulphonated dyestuffs containing cyclic anhydride groups, anhydride-forming dicarboxylic acid groups or half-esters or half-amides thereof, as free acids or as salts with ammonia or volatile amines, and heating the fibre until dyestuff fixation takes place.

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