Ppg Industries, Inc.

Won S Kwak

Rodney J Hurditch

Chin-Wen Chen

Patricia L Kwiatkowski

Described are spiro (benzidoline) pyrido benzoxazine and spiro (benzindoline) naphthoxazine photochromic compounds and their use in plastic hosts to impact a photochromic response thereto.

Photochromic compound and articles containing the same

Described are photochromic spiro(indoline)benzoxazine compounds having substituents on the benzoxazine portion of the compound, and their use in plastic hosts to impart a photochromic response thereto.

Photochromic article

Photochromic spiro-oxizine compounds are prepared by mixing in a substantially non-reactive organic solvent medium an alkylidene heterocyclic compound or halide salt thereof, e.g., an indoline, with a metal chelate of an ortho-hydroxynitrosoaromatic compound.

Spiro indoline-pyranobenzoxazinones

Photochromic spiro(indoline)benzoxazines

Method for synthesizing spiro-oxazines

Described are photochromic spiro[indoline-2,3'[3H] pyrido [3,2-f][1,4]-benzoxazine compounds having a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 monohaloalkyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 polyhaloalkyl substituent on the indoline ring, and their use in plastic hosts to impart a photochromic response thereto.

Photochromic compounds represented by the graphic formula: ##STR1## wherein: (a) R.sub.1 is selected from the group consisting of C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl, phenyl, phen(C.sub.1 -C.sub.4) alkyl, allyl and mono- and di-substituted phenyl, said substituents being selected from C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl and C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 alkoxy;

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