Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft

Gunther Prossel

Hans-Tobias Macholdt

Frank Wehowsky

Jorg Gitzel

Alexander Sieber

The use of intensely fluorinated ammonium compounds of the general formula (I) ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 to R.sub.4 denote hydrogen atoms or organic radicals, at least one of the radicals R.sub.1 to R.sub.4 denoting a straight-chain or branched fluorine-containing alkyl radical or fluorine-containing alkenyl radical which contains 1 to 69 carbon atoms and 3 to 66 fluorine atoms and which may be substituted, and at most three of the radicals R.sub.1 to R.sub.4 are, independently of one another, hydrogen atoms, straight-chain or branched alkyl radicals or alkenyl radicals containing 1 to 30 carbon atoms, aryl radicals or aralkyl radicals, and X.sup.- denotes an organic or inorganic anion, and of intensely fluorinated iminium compounds of the general formula (II) ##STR2## in which R.sub.9 to R.sub.12 denote hydrogen atoms or organic radicals, at least one of the radicals R.sub.9 to R.sub.12 denoting a straight-chain or branched fluorine-containing alkyl radical or fluorine-containing alkenyl radical which contains 1 to 69 carbon atoms and 3 to 66 fluorine atoms and which may be substituted, and at most three of the radicals R.sub.9 to R.sub.12 denote, independently of one another, hydrogen, straight-chain or branched alkyl radicals or alkenyl radicals containing 1 to 30 carbon atoms, aryl or aralkyl radicals and Y.sup.- is an organic or inorganic anion, as colorless charge control agents having positive or negative control effect in toners and developers for electrophotographic recording processes.

Use of colorless, intensely fluorinated ammonium and iminium compounds

Ammonium compounds of the formula (I) ##STR1## in which at least one of the radicals R.sub.1 to R.sub.4 denotes a fluorine-containing alkyl radical having 4 to 30 carbon atoms and not more than three of the radicals R.sub.1 to R.sub.4 independently of one another denote hydrogen atoms or alkyl or hydroxyalkyl radicals having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, and R.sub.5 to R.sub.8 denote aryl, alkylaryl or halogenoaryl radicals or fluorine atoms, and iminium compounds of the formula (II) ##STR2## in which Q, together with the constituent ##STR3## forms a ring system having 4 to 17 carbon atoms, which can be interrupted by 1 to 4 hetero atoms and contain 2 to 9 double bonds, and which can be substituted by fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine atoms or alkyl (C.sub.1 -C.sub.6), alkoxy (C.sub.1 -C.sub.6), nitro or amino groups, R.sub.9 denotes a fluorine-containing alkyl (C.sub.1 -C.sub.30) radical, R.sub.10 denotes a hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine atom or an alkyl(C.sub.1 -C.sub.6), alkoxy (C.sub.1 -C.sub.6), nitro or amino group and the radicals R.sub.11 to R.sub.14 denote aryl radicals, alkylaryl radicals, halogenoaryl radicals or fluorine atoms, and mixtures of these compounds and processes for their preparation.

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Gunther Prossel