Mitsubishi Chemical Industries Limited

Tomio Yomeyama

Toshio Hihara

Seiichi Imahori

Takao Hirota

An anthraquinone dye for direct printing and pad dyeing of cellulose-containing fibers and of the formula: ##STR1## wherein A represents a phenylene group, Y represents a group --NH-- or --C.sub.2 H.sub.4 O--, X represents a carbamoyl group which may be substituted with a lower alkyl group or a lower alkoxy-lower alkyl group, a sulfamoyl group which may be substituted with a lower alkyl group or a lower alkoxy-lower alkyl group, a halogen atom or a cyano group, and Z represents an amino group, a mono- or di-alkylamino group having 1-6 carbon atoms in total, an anilino group, a lower alkoxy group or a group --O(R.sup.1 O).sub.n -R.sup.2 in which R.sup.1 represents an ethylene group or a propylene group, R.sup.2 represents a methyl group or an ethyl group and n is an integer of 1-5.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Tomio Yomeyama