Eastman-kodak Company

Victor LaVonne Mylroie

Lal C Vishwakarma

Louis F Valente

Barry Francis Briffa

Sulfur-contaminated aromatic nitro compounds are hydrogenated in the presence of a chrominum-containing Raney cobalt catalyst to corresponding primary amino compounds which are useful as intermediates for photographic dye-forming couplers and for other purposes.

Manufacture of aromatic amines

Tertiary aminoaryl compounds, such as N,N'dialkylaminoaryl compounds, are prepared using successive reductive steps without isolation therebetween, at high temperature and pressure. A nitroaryl compound is reduced using a ketone as both solvent and reactant in a reductive environment, and the resulting intermediate is further reacted with an aldehyde in the same reaction mixture without isolation to provide the second substituent on the amino group.

Reductive alkylation process to prepare tertiary aminoaryl compounds

A method for preparing a compound of formula (III): ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7, R.sub.8, L, Z and p are as defined in the specification; said process preferably comprising either a noble metal catalyzed hydrogenation or a non-catalytic reductive ring closure of an azo dye compound of formula (IV): ##STR2## where R11 is as defined in the specification, thereby performing a reductive ring closure and selective O-deacylation in a single process step.

Method of synthesizing tert-amido-substituted 2-(2'-hydroxyphenyl)

2-(2'-Hydroxyphenyl)-2H-benzotriazoles of formula (I): ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7, R.sub.8 and Z are defined in the specification, are prepared by catalytic hydrogenation of a suitable o-nitroazo dye compound in the presence of a PtS, Pt, Pd, Pt/Pd or other noble metal hydrogenation catalyst, in the presence of a base, an acid and a hydroxylic solvent.

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Victor LaVonne Mylroie