Ilford Imaging Switzerland Gmbh

Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation

Basf Se Corporation

Vincent Ruffieux

Rolf Steiger

Robert Beer

Urs Fürholz

Florence Modoux

Meinrad Schär

Pierre-Alain Brugger

Martin Staiger

Colin Morton

David Macdonald Smith

Gerhard Furrer

Daniel Rentsch

Björn Studer

Dipanjan Banerjee

The present invention relates to a process for the direct preparation of pyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrroles (DPPs) of the formula pigment compositions containing them and their use for coloring high molecular weight organic materials, such as plastics and paints. The obtained DPPs of the formula I possess a higher color strength, a higher chroma, a purer shade and a higher opacity versus corresponding commercially available DPPs.

Pigment compositions comprising pyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrroles

A method for the preparation of silicium dioxide dispersions is provided, wherein the surface of the silicium dioxide is modified by a treatment with the reaction products, formed in a separate reaction step, of at least one compound of trivalent aluminum or of tetravalent zirconium or a mixture thereof with at least one aminoorganosilane; and the invention also relates to recording sheets for ink jet printing having such a dispersion incorporated in an ink-receiving layer.

Recording sheet for ink jet printing

A method for the preparation of silicon dioxide dispersions is described, wherein the surface of the silicon dioxide is modified by a treatment with the reaction products of a compound of trivalent aluminum with least one aminoorganosilane. These reaction products are formed in a separate reaction step. The present invention also relates to recording sheets for ink jet printing having such a dispersion incorporated in an ink-receiving layer.

A recording sheet for ink jet printing is described, which consists of a support having coated onto said support at least two ink-receiving layers, wherein the ink-receiving layer situated next to the support contains nanoporous silicon dioxide with a positively charged surface and at least one binder and the ink-receiving layer situated further away from the support contains nanocrystalline, nanoporous aluminium oxide or aluminium oxide/hydroxide and at least one binder and, optionally, nanoporous silicon dioxide with a positively charged surface.

A recording sheet for ink jet printing is provided, which consists of a support having coated thereon at least one ink-receiving layer consisting of binders and at least one nanoporous inorganic compound, wherein the recording sheet contains a polynuclear aluminum hydroxo complex with 30 aluminum atoms. In a preferred embodiment, the surface of the nanoporous inorganic compound is modified by a treatment with the aluminum hydroxo complex with 30 aluminum atoms.

Recording sheets for ink jet printing

The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of diketopyrrolopyrroles of the formula (I), wherein A1, A2, A3 and A4 are as defined in the description of the present invention, to new diketopyrrolopyrroles of the general formula I obtainable by the process, and the use of the new diketopyrrolopyrroles of the general formula I for the preparation of inks, colorants, pigmented plastics for coatings, non-impact-printing material, color filters, cosmetics, polymeric ink particles, toners, dye lasers and electroluminescent devices, or as fluorescent markers for immunoassays and fluorescent tracers for leak detection of fluids. Furthermore the present invention relates to diketopyrrolopyrrole analogues of the general formula (II), wherein A1, A2 and A3 are defined in the description of the present invention, which are intermediates in the process for the preparation of diketopyrrolopyrroles of the formula I and can be used as crystal growth regulators 

Process for the preparation of diketopyrrolopyrroles

The present invention relates to a process for the direct preparation of pyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrroles (DPPs) of the formula (1), pigment compositions containing them and their use for coloring high molecluar weight organic materials, such as plastics and paints. The obtained DPPs of the formula I posses a higher color strength, a higher chroma, a purer shade and a higher opacity versus corresponding commerically available DPPs.

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