Hans Schwarzkopf Gmbh

501 Hans Schwarzkopf Gmbh

Winfried Seidel

Mustafa Akram

Wolfgang Schlenther

Thomas Oelschlager

New substituted 2,6-diaminotoluenes of the general formula I ##STR1## wherein R is a hydrogen atom and R.sup.1 is a radical of the formula Ia

Substituted 2,6-diaminotoluenes, processes for their preparation and

Compounds of the formula I are described: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently of one another each represent a hydrogen atom, a (C.sub.1 -C.sub.2) alkyl group, a hydroxy (C.sub.2 -C.sub.3) alkyl group or a 2,3-dihydroxypropyl group and X is a fluorine atom, with the proviso that when R.sup.1 or R.sup.2 is hydrogen then the other is not a hydroxy (C.sub.2) alkyl group; processes for their preparation and aqueous hair coloring agents containing these compounds.

Nitro-p-phenylenediamine derivatives, processes for their preparation

The invention relates to a process for the selective preparation of N.sup.4 -substituted 1,4-diamino-2-nitrobenzenes of the general formula I ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 denotes hydrogen, halogen, (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4) alkyl or (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4) alkoxy, it being possible for the carbon atoms to be arranged in straight-chain or branched form, and R.sub.2 represents a radical --COO--CH(A)--CH(B)--D with the meanings A=H, B=H, D=Cl, A=H, B=CH.sub.3, D=Cl, A=H, B=H, D=CH.sub.2 Cl or A=CH.sub.3, B=H and D=Cl (compounds of the general formula Ia) or a radical--CH(X)--CH(Y)--Z with the meanings X=H, Y=H, Z=OH, X=CH.sub.3, Y=H, Z=OH, X=H, Y=H, Z=CH.sub.2 OH or X=H, Y=CH.sub.3 and Z=OH (compounds of the general formula Ib) ##STR2## which is characterized in that 1,4-diamino-2-nitrobenzenes of the general formula II ##STR3## wherein R.sub.1 has the abovementioned meaning, are reacted in a first stage with an approximately equimolar amount of a chloroalkyl chloroformate of the general formula Cl--COO--CH(A)--CH(B)--D, wherein A, B and D have the above-mentioned meanings, in a predominantly aqueous medium which contains--based on the water present--not more than 20 percent by weight of an organic solvent, and preferably in a purely aqueous medium to give carbamates of the general formula Ia and if appropriate these carbamates are converted into compounds of the general formula Ib in a second stage by means of treatment with a base.

Process for the selective preparation of N-substituted

The invention relates to compounds of the general formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently of one another each represent a hydrogen atom, a (C.sub.1 -C.sub.2) alkyl group, a hydroxy (C.sub.2 -C.sub.3) alkyl group or a 2,3-dihydroxypropyl group and X is a florine atom or a trifluoromethyl group, processes for their preparation and aqueous hair coloring agents containing these compounds.

The invention relates to new 3-nitro-4-aminophenols of the formula (I) ##STR1## in which R denotes hydrogen or halogen, preferably chlorine or bromine, and R' denotes hydrogen or alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, dihydroxyalkyl or halogenohydroxyalkyl which has 1 to 6 carbon atoms and is straight-chain or branched, with the proviso that, if R is hydrogen, R' does not denote hydrogen, methyl or .beta.-hydroxyethyl. Processes for their preparation: (a) by reacting corresponding 3-nitro-4-aminophenols with certain halogenoalkyl chloroformates and subsequent basic treatment of the process products, or (b) by reacting corresponding 4-halogeno-3-nitrophenols with certain amines, and the intermediate products obtained and coloring agents for keratinic fibres, preferably for human hair, which contain at least one compound of the formula (I).

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