Toyo Ink Manufacturing Company

Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Masami Shirao

Michichika Hikosaka

Junichi Tsuchida

Yoshiyuki Nonaka

Kenji Kitamura

Akimitsu Mochizuki

Hideto Noguchi

Hitoshi Maki

Shuuichi Kimura

Toshiro Notoji

Disclosed is a method of producing a disazo pigment, which a coupling reaction is carried out while feeding, into an acidic aqueous solution, a tetrazo aqueous solution containing a tetrazo component of benzidines and a coupler aqueous solution containing a coupling component, wherein the coupling component is a mixture comprising a main component represented by the formula (1): CH,COCH,CONH&mdash;X, wherein X represents a phenyl group optionally having one or the same or different plural substituents selected from the group consisting of a methyl group, methoxy group and chlorine atom; a first additional component represented by the formula (2): CH,COCH,CONH&mdash;Y, wherein Y represents a phenyl group having a substituent selected from the group consisting of &mdash;CONR,group, &mdash;SO,NR,group and &mdash;NHCOR group, and the phenyl group may further have a substituent selected from the group consisting of a methyl group, methoxy group, chlorine atom, &mdash;CONR,group, &mdash;SO,NR,group and &mdash;NHCOR group, and wherein Rs may be the same or different mutually, and represent a hydrogen atom, C1 to C4 alkyl group (the alkyl groups may be mutually connected to form a ring) or C1 to C4 alkylene NR&prime;,, further wherein R's represent a hydrogen atom or C1 to C4 alkyl groups which may be mutually different (the alkyl groups may be mutually connected to form a ring); and, a second additional component represented by the formula (3): CH,COCH,CONH&mdash;Z, wherein Z represents a phenyl group substituted by any one of a carboxyl group or alkali metal salts thereof, hydroxyl group or sulfonic acid group or alkali metal salts thereof, and said phenyl group may further has a substituent selected from the group consisting of a methyl group, methoxy group, chlorine atom, carboxyl group or alkali metal salts thereof, hydroxyl group or sulfonic acid group or alkali metal salts thereof. According to the method, disazo pigments can be obtained which manifest excellent transparency and flowability of the inks produced therefrom, and excellent flushing property and flushing drain coloration resistance in the pigment production process, or excellent dispersibility when ink is formed under dry condition.

Method of producing disazo pigment

A process for the production of an aluminum phthalocyanine composition or a halogenated aluminum phthalocyanine composition in high yield and purity is provided which entails bringing a molten salt of aluminum chloride and/or aluminum bromide and a phthalocyanine compound having a central element other than aluminum into contact with each other in a predetermined temperature range thereby to substitute aluminum for the central element. Alternatively, the process involves conducting the aforementioned step, and introducing a halogen into the resultant reaction mixture.

Process for the production of aluminum phthalocyanine composition

A process for producing a polyhalogenated phthalocyanine containing not more than 0.02 part by weight of water-insoluble inorganic impurities derived from aluminum chloride per 100 parts by weight of phthalocyanine before halogenation, which comprises the following steps A, B and C;

Process for producing polyhalogenated phthalocyanine

A process for producing a pigment composition containing a highly halogenated copper phthalocyanine, produced by halogenation of copper phthalocyanine in the presence of chlorosulfonic acid, titanium tetrachloride or a mixture of titanium tetrachloride with aluminum chloride, a highly halogenated copper phthalocyanine produced by halogenation of a copper phthalocyanine in a solid powder state, or a highly halogenated copper phthalocyanine produced by cyclization. The composition further contains at least one highly halogenated different-metalo-phthalocyanine selected from highly halogenated metalo-phthalocyanines each of which has Al, Mg, Si, Ti, V, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn, Ge or Sn as a central metal.

Process for producing phthalocyanine pigment composition containing

A polyhalogenated phthalocyanine obtained by halogenation of phthalocyanine in the presence of aluminum chloride and contains not more than 0.02 part by weight, per 100 parts by weight of the phthalocyanine before the halogenation, of water-insoluble inorganic impurities derived from the aluminum chloride contributes to improvement of a printing ink in form plate abrasion properties.

Polyhalogenated phthalocyanine, process for the production thereof, and

Provided according to this invention is a process for the halogenation of copper phthalocyanine in titanium tetrachloride in the presence of aluminum chloride, which comprises preliminarily stirring both a part or all of the aluminum chloride and the copper phthalocyanine in titanium tetrachloride at not less than 50.degree. C. and carrying out the halogenation reaction, provided that when the part of the aluminum chloride is added for the preliminary stirring, the remaining portion of the aluminum chloride is added during the halogenation reaction.

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Masami Shirao