Abstract: A compound capable of forming a color on contact with an electron accepting compound and useful as a chromogenic material for recording members represented by the general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein A represents an oxygen atom or a group capable of forming a lactam ring with benzen ring D; Y represents a hydrogen atom or a functional group (such as a halogen atom or a nitro group); and when A is an oxygen atom, R represents an amino, i.e., unsubstituted, group or a substituted amino group; R.sub.1 and R.sub.3, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a nitro group, an amino group, or a substituted amino group; and R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group; wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 or R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 may combine with benzene ring C to form a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring condensed therewith; and when A is a group capable of forming a lactam ring with benzene ring D, R represents ##STR2## R.sub.2 represents ##STR3## R.sub.4 ', R.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of 4-amino-3-methyl-N-substituted or unsubstituted alkylanilines comprising acylating and/or sulfonylating 4-amino-3-methyl-nitro-benzene having the formula (I) ##STR1## with an acylation or sulfonylation agent to obtain a compound having the general formula (II) ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or an acyl group, R.sub.2 represents an acyl group or a sulfonyl group, or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 can combine as a difunctional acyl group; reducing the nitro group of the compound having the general formula (II) with hydrogen in the presence of a metal hydrogenation catalyst to obtain a compound having the general formula (III) ##STR3## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are as above defined; alkylating the amino group of the compound having the general formula (III) with an alkylation agent selected from the group consisting of an alkyl halide, a substituted alkyl halide and an alkylene oxide to obtain a compound having the general formula (IV) ##STR4## wherein R.sub.1 and R.