Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Daiei Chemical Co., Ltd.

Kiyoyasu Hashimoto

Takashi Omura

Yasuyoshi Ueda

Hirohito Kenmochi

Hideo Hattori

Kenji Yoshinaga

Yoshiaki Hayashi

Jun Yamamoto

Yasuyuki Suzuki

Yuzo Maegawa

Masao Nishikuri

Tetsuo Okaniwa

Yoshio Mori

Junzaburo Seino

Masanobu Terao

Katsunobu Sato

2,4-Dichloro-3-alkyl-6-nitrophenol, which is a precursor of 2,4-dichloro-3-alkyl-6-aminophenol useful for the production of a cyan coupler to be used with a sensitive material in the field of a photography in color, is industrially advantageously produced by (a) nitration of 2,4,5-trichloro-3-alkylbenzene, followed by hydrolysis of the resulting 2,4,5-trichloro-3-alkyl-6-nitrobenzene, or (b) hydrolysis of 2,4,5-trichloro-3-alkylbenzene-6-sulfonic acid or a salt thereof, followed by nitration of the resulting 2,4-dichloro-3-alkylphenol-6-sulfonic acid or a salt thereof, the starting material usable for these processes being 4-alkylbenzenesulfonic acid or a salt thereof, which is easily available.

Process for producing 2,4-dichloro-3-alkyl-6-nitrophenol

A monoazo compound of the following formula, ##STR1## wherein X is a hydrogen or halogen atom, or a C.sub.1-4 alkyl, C.sub.1-4 alkoxy, C.sub.1-4 alkylsulfonyl, C.sub.1-4 alkylcarbonyl, C.sub.1-4 alkoxycarbonyl, nitro, cyano or trifluoromethyl group, Y is a hydrogen or chlorine atom or a methyl or acylamino group, and Z is a hydrogen or chlorine atom or a methyl, methoxy or ethoxy group, which is useful for dyeing or printing hydrophobic fibers with superior level dyeing and build-up properties to give dyed products of a brilliant color superior in fastness properties.

2,6-dicyano-4'-morpholinoazobenzene compounds useful for dyeing

A yellow dye-donor element for thermal dye transfer and having good characteristics for ink formation, and a thermal transfer sheet made using the yellow dye-element, having adequate sublimatability or vaporizability, good coloring, with a high printing density on receiving papers, and high storage stability and light stability of printing image, and employable as a yellow color among the three primary colors are provided. The above yellow color-element comprises a yellow dye dispersed or dissolved in a polymeric binder, which is represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is an alkyl group of C.sub.1 -C.sub.12, an allyl group or a crotyl group; X is hydrogen, halogen or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 lower alkyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 lower alkoxy group; Y is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl, C.sub.5 -C.sub.7 cycloalkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, phenyl, tolyl, or phenoxy group; and A is --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --, --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O--, or --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --.

Yellow dye-donor element used in thermal transfer and thermal transfer

A monoazo pyridone compound of the following formula, ##STR1## wherein X is a member selected from hydrogen, halogeno, alkyl, alkoxy, alkylcarbonyl, alkoxycarbonyl, aralkoxycarbonyl, alkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl, carbamoyl, sulfamoyl or cyano, and R is alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, phenyl or anilino, with the provisos that X is a member selected from those defined above except for hydrogen, chloro, methyl and methoxy when R is ethyl, and X is a member selected from those defined above except for alkyl when R is iso-butyl, which is stable under dyeing conditions, and useful for dyeing hydrophobic fiber materials to give dyed products of a deep, fast and brilliant color of greenish yellow to orange.

Monoazo pyridone compounds and application thereof for dyeing of

A compound of the formula, ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is methyl or ethyl, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are each C.sub.5 -- or C.sub.6 --alkyl, and Z is chlorine for use as a blue disperse dye of hydrophobic fibers, either alone or as a mixed dye in combination with anthraquinone; the compound combines low cost relative to anthraquinone with superior stability in the dye bath and excellent dyeability; mixed dyes retain anthraquinone-imparted brilliance of color, have good color fastness, dyeability and reproducibility characteristics, and maintain low cost.

2-Cyano-4-nitro-6-chlorophenylazo 3-acetyl-or

A disperse dye of the formula, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is an alkyl group having 5 to 6 carbon atoms, R.sub.2 is an alkyl group having 5 to 6 carbon atoms, a cyano-ethyl group, R.sub.3 is a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl, amino or phenyl group, and Y.sub.1 and Y.sub.2 represent independently a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a halogen atom, a nitro group, a cyano group, a thiocyanate group or an alkylsulfonyl group, provided that both Y.sub.1 and Y.sub.2 are not hydrogen at the same time and Y.sub.1 is located at the 4- or 5-position, which is useful for dyeing hydrophobic fibers in brilliant red to violet shade with good fastnesses.

Monoazo dyestuffs derived from benzothiazole

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