Abstract: New phosphoric ester having the following formula (I) and a method for the analysis of an alkaline phosphatase, using the phosphoric ester as a substrate: ##STR1## wherein M is a hydrogen atom or an alkali metal atom; A is phenyl, naphthyl, 2- or 4-pyridyl, 2- or 4-pyrimidyl, pyrazinyl, sym-triazinyl, 2-imidazolyl, 2-oxazolyl, 2-thiazolyl, or sym-thiadiazolyl group which may or may not be substituted with other substituent(s) or may form a condensed ring together with a benzene ring, if possible; B is paraphenylene group or may form naphthylene group by condensation together with a benzene ring, said groups may or may not be substituted with other substituent(s).

Abstract: Azo disperse dyestuffs are prepared by diazotization and coupling in an aqueous phase, the coupling being carried out in the presence of an ester of a lower aliphatic carboxylic acid.

Abstract: An azo compound with the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen atom, lower alkyl group, lower alkoxy group, halogen atom and cyano group;Y is phenylene or naphthylene group;Z.sub.1 and Z.sub.2 are independently the divalent group represented by the following formula: ##STR2## wherein A is a divalent group derived from the aromatic hydrocarbon or heterocyclic compound including one or more nitrogen atoms in the ring; andn is 1 or 2,is disclosed. Such compounds are useful in forming a photosensitive layer of an electrophotographic photoreceptor.

Abstract: Mixtures comprising at least two dyes of formula I ##STR1## where R is unsubstituted linear C.sub.3-7 alkyl, with the proviso that at least two different dyes of formula I are each present to the extent of at least 10 mole %, based on the total molar quantity of dyes present, which are useful for dyeing and printing synthetic and semi-synthetic high molecular weight, hydrophobic organic substrates, particularly for rapid dyeing.

Abstract: According to the invention, addition of one or more surfactants having a cloud point in aqueous solution to an aqueous suspension of an azo disperse dye gives after the isolation of the dye at a temperature above the cloud point aqueous press cakes containing a large amount of this dye.The direct processing of press cakes as obtained for example after the synthesis and isolation of azo disperse dyes to practical dispersions for use requires a minimum dye content in the press cakes. The minimum content is frequently not obtained when conventional methods of isolation are used, so that it is necessary to proceed via the indirect route of drying to obtain powders and redispersing the powders. By using the process according to the invention it is possible to cut out the costly indirect route or, if desired, to reduce the expense of drying to obtain powders by an appreciable margin.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel useful reactive dyes of the formula I ##STR1## in which: F is a radical selected from the group consisting of metal-free or metal-containing monoazo or disazo dyes containing at least one --SO.sub.3 H group, anthraquinone dyes, sulfophthalocyanine dyes, formazan dyes, phenazine dyes, oxanine dyes and nitroaryl dyes,R is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl which is unsubstituted or substituted with --COOH or --SO.sub.3 H, cyanoethyl, or hydroxyethyl, X is fluorine, chlorine, bromine, --SO.sub.3 H, phenylsulfonyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkylsulfonyl,P is 1 or 2 andA is a radical of the formula ##STR2## in which: the groups designated "alk" are independently of each other straight or branched polymethylene radicals having 2 to 6 carbon atoms, andZ is .beta.-halogenoethyl, vinyl, .beta.-sulfatoethyl, .beta.-thiosulfatoethyl or .beta.acetoxyethyl.

Abstract: A disazo pigment is prepared by coupling the tetrazo compound of 3,3'-dichlorobenzidine with an acetoacetanilide compound which is other than those represented by the below-described general formula (I) and is free of water-soluble groups. In the present invention, about 0.5-50 mole % of the acetoacetanilide compound is replaced by a compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R means a methyl, ethyl, propyl or butyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group.

Abstract: Transition metal complexes of the compounds of the formulae I and II ##STR1## in which A is an isocylic or heterocyclic aromatic radical, R is --H, halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy, R.sub.1 is --H, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl or phenyl which is unsubstituted or substituted by halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy, --NO.sub.2, --CONH.sub.2, --CONHR.sub.2 or C.sub.2 -C.sub.5 -N-alkylcarbamoyl, X is --CH.dbd. or --N.dbd. andB is --H, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, --NHCONH.sub.2, --NHCONH-C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, --NHCONR.sub.2, --NHCSNH.sub.2, --NHCSR.sub.3, --NHC(NH)NH.sub.2, --NHR.sub.2, --NHCOR.sub.3, --NHSO.sub.2 R.sub.3 or a heterocyclic aromatic radical, and R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are phenyl or substituted phenyl, are suitable for pigmenting high-molecular organic material.

Abstract: A water-soluble fiber-reactive red dyestuff is disclosed which, in its free acid form, has the formula ##STR1## wherein X is --CH.dbd.CH.sub.2 or --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --Z wherein Z is --OH, --Cl, --Br, --OSO.sub.3 H, --SSO.sub.3 H, --OPO.sub.3 H.sub.2, --O.sub.2 CCH.sub.3, --O.sub.2 CCH.sub.2 CH.sub.3 or --N(lower alkyl).sub.2. Liquid compositions of said dyestuff are also disclosed. This dyestuff yields brilliant red shades on cellulosic materials having excellent fastness properties and superior color yield and build up.

Abstract: The present invention provides gamma-glutamyl-4-azoanilides, processes for their preparation and their use as substrates for gamma-glutamyl transferase determination, of the formula ##STR1## wherein X is alkyl, --(CH.sub.2).sub.m --COOH or --O--(CH.sub.2).sub.n --COOH wherein m is 0-4 and n is 1-4; R is optionally substituted p-nitrophenyl; an optionally substituted thiophene residue; an optionally substituted thiazole residue; an optionally substituted benzothiazole residue; an optionally substituted benzoisothiazole residue; an N-alkylthiazole residue; or an optionally substituted 1,3,5-thiodiazole residue; as well as the alkali metal, alkaline earth metal and ammonium salts thereof.

Abstract: Azo dyes of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is alkyl having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; R.sup.2 is alkyl having 1 to 3 carbon atoms; R.sup.3 is alkylcarbonyloxyethyl having 1 to 3 carbon atoms in the alkyl moiety, alkoxycarbonyloxyethyl having 1 to 4 carbon atoms in the alkoxy moiety, methoxyethoxycarbonyloxyethyl or ethoxyethoxycarbonyloxyethyl; and R.sup.4 is one of the definitions of R.sup.3 or cyanoethyl; or mixtures of at least two species of said formula are used for dyeing and printing hydrophobic fiber materials.

Abstract: An isothiazolylazo dye of the formula I ##STR1## wherein R is an alkyl group or unsubstituted aryl or substituted aryl group selected from the group consisting of ##STR2## and K is a radical of the formula ##STR3## where B is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl or a substituted amino radical selected from the group consisting of ##STR4## R.sup.1 is hydrogen, methyl, methoxy or ethoxy, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 independently of one another are each unsubstituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl or substituted alkyl groups selected from the group of C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyls which are substituted by chlorine, bromine, cyano, hydroxyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy, benzyloxy, phenoxy, phenyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkylcarbonyloxy which is unsubstituted or substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy, phenoxy or phenyl, phenycarbonyloxy which is unsubstituted or substituted by chlorine, bromine, methoxy, ethoxy, methyl or ethyl, oxycarbonyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxycarbonyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.

Abstract: A process for preparing a disazo dye represented by the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a nitro group, a trifluoromethyl group, a lower alkoxycarbonyl group or a lower alkylsulfonyl group, R.sup.3 represents a lower alkyl or allyl group which may optionally have a substituent or substituents, and R.sup.4 represents a lower alkyl or allyl group having a substituent or substituents, which comprises diazotizing an amine represented by the following formula: ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are the same as defined above, and coupling the diazotized product with a bis(N,N-di-substituted anilino)methane represented by the following formula: ##STR3## wherein R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are the same as defined above.

Abstract: A hexakisazo dye suitable for dyeing cellulose, natural or synthetic polyamide meterials, leather, represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein X is --CH.dbd.CH--, --CONH--, --CRH-- (wherein R is phenyl which is unsubstituted or substituted by H or a sulfonic acid group), -SO.sub.2 -- or --O--; Y is H, CH.sub.3 OCH.sub.3, Cl or SO.sub.3 M; A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 are each ##STR2## (wherein Z.sub.1 is H, Cl, CH.sub.3, OH, OCH.sub.3, OC.sub.2 H.sub.5 or SO.sub.3 M, and Z.sub.2 is H, CH.sub.3, NO.sub.2 or COOM); B.sub.1 and B.sub.2 are each ##STR3## (wherein Z.sub.3 is H, OH, NH.sub.2 Cl or COOM, Z.sub.4 is H, Cl, CH.sub.3, OH OCH.sub.3, NH.sub.2, COOM or SO.sub.3 M, and Z.sub.5 is H, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl or OH); M is H, Na, K, Li or NH.sub.4 ; f is 0 or 1; m is 0, 1 or 2; and n is 0, 1 or 2.

Abstract: Water-soluble azo compounds having fiber-reactive dye properties conforming to the formula ##STR1## in which D denotes a benzene or naphthalene ring;R.sup.1 denotes hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxy, sulfo or carboxy;R.sup.

Abstract: A new method of diazotization consists in using as the diazotizing agent in an aqueous, aqueous organic or organic medium the system comprising salt of nitrous acid+acid insoluble in the reaction medium, in particular organic or inorganic cation exchangers having acid groups. The diazonium salt solutions thus prepared are immediately reacted with coupling components to give azo dyestuffs, the insoluble acid and/or its salt being separated off before or after the coupling.

Abstract: A reactive dye of the formula ##STR1## in which: F is a radical selected from the group consisting of metal-free or metal-containing monoazo or disazo dyes containing at least one --SO.sub.3 H group, anthraquinone dyes, sulfophthalocyanine dyes, formazan dyes, phenazine dyes, oxazine dyes and nitroaryl dyes,R is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl which is unsubstituted or substituted with --COOH or --SO.sub.3 H, cyanoethyl, or hydroxyethyl,X is fluorine, chlorine, bromine, --SO.sub.3 H, phenylsulfonyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkylsulfonyl,p is 1 or 2 andA is a radical of the formula ##STR2## in which: Y is chlorine, bromine, fluorine, --OH, --OSO.sub.3 H, --O-acyl, --CN, --COOH, --COO--C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, --CONH.sub.2 or --SO.sub.2 --Z,the group designated "alk" is a straight or branched polymethylene radical having 2 to 6 carbon atoms,V is ##STR3## hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl which is unsubstituted or substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.2 -alkoxy, carboxyl, sulfo, halogen or hydroxy,Z is .beta.

Abstract: The compounds of the formula I ##STR1## where R is unsubstituted or substituted phenyl or naphthyl, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, alkenyl or cycloalkyl, and one of the radicals may furthermore be hydrogen, R.sup.3 is hydrogen, methyl, methoxy, ethoxy or chlorine, and R.sup.4 is acylamino, are particularly useful for dyeing polyesters.

Abstract: The specification describes a new group of alkanol substituted disazo compounds that are useful in dyeing polyamide textile fibers in orange hues. The new compounds are compatible with several acid blue dyes and several acid red dyes that are commercially important as dyes for nylon. The new compounds are particularly well suited for use as the "yellow" component in trichromatic systems for dying polyamide carpeting and other textiles. The new compounds are relatively inexpensive to make and have outstanding application and fastness properties. Other aspects of the specification are concerned with a method of making the new compounds and with a method of dyeing polyamides with said compounds and to the novel dyed polyamides resulting from the use of the new group of compounds as dyes.

Abstract: A photographic recording material which contains at least one dye of the formula ##STR1## wherein D is the group of atoms necessary to complete a 5-membered ring that contains at least one nitrogen atom, A is hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxy, phenyl, alkylthio, cyano, nitro or halogen, n is 0 to 3, R.sub.1 is hydrogen, alkyl, hydroxyl, acylamino, R.sub.6 is hydrogen or unsubstituted or substituted amino, and R.sub.4 is hydrogen or alkoxy. The material is distinguished by good color reproduction, brilliant colors and excellent lightfastness.

Abstract: Azo compounds of the formula I ##STR1## wherein X is --H, --CH.sub.3, --CF.sub.3, --NO.sub.2, --COOR.sub.1, --NHCOR.sub.2 or --COHN.sub.2, and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are as defined in claim 1, are suitable for pigmenting high-molecular organic material.

Abstract: Black trisazo dyes for cellulosic textiles, leather and especially paper having the structure ##STR1## where A is ##STR2## one of B.sub.1 and B.sub.2 is hydrogen and the other is --SO.sub.3 M or a mixture thereof, and M is hydrogen, sodium, potassium, lithium or --HNR.sub.1 R.sub.2 R.sub.3 wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 represent the same or different substituents selected from hydrogen, lower alkyl and lower hydroxyalkyl, and stable liquid concentrates of these dyes are described.

Abstract: Compounds of the general formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are identical or different and denote hydrogen, chlorine or bromine, methyl, ethyl, methoxy, ethoxy or nitro and K denotes identical or different radicals of enolizable ketomethylene compounds which do not contain groups imparting solubility in water, are obtained by coupling one equivalent of the bisdiazonium compound obtained by bisdiazotizing the diamine of the formula ##STR2## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 have the meaning mentioned above, with 2 equivalents of one or more compounds of the formula KH in which K has the meaning mentioned above. These disazo compounds are pigments which have a high tinctorial strength and good fastness to migration, light, heat and chemicals.

Abstract: Water-soluble monoazo and disazo compounds having fiber-reactive dye properties which are suitable for dyeing carbamoyl- and hydroxyl-containing materials, in particular cellulose fiber materials, and containing as diazo components an optionally substituted phenyl radical or naphthyl radical or a phenylazophenyl, phenylazonaphthyl, naphthylazophenyl or naphthylazonaphthyl radical, one of these radicals containing bonded in the diazo component a vinylsulfonyl, .beta.-thiosulfatoethylsulfonyl, .beta.-phosphatoethylsulfonyl, .beta.-chloroethylsulfonyl or .beta.-sulfatoethylsulfonyl group, and as coupling component that of a naphthol, aminonaphthaline or aminobenzene having a fiber-reactive grouping of the general formula ##STR1## in which the two R.sup.1 s, identical to or different from each other, denote a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R is a hydrogen atom or a sulfo group and Y represents the vinyl group, a .beta.-thiosulfatoethyl, .beta.-phosphatoethyl, .beta.

Abstract: Water-soluble azo compounds of the formula (1) ##STR1## in which R is hydrogen or alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, X is alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms substituted by carboxy or sulfo, or is phenyl substituted by 1 or 2 sulfo or carboxy or both, and Z is vinyl, .beta.-thiosulfatoethyl or .beta.-sulfatoethyl and M is hydrogen or the equivalent of a metal, and in which the second sulfo group in the naphthalene is bonded in the m-position or p-position relative to the acylated amino group. The new azo compounds are very valuable dyestuffs having fiber-reactive properties, and give color-fast and deep dyeings and prints on fiber materials made of cellulose or synthetic or natural polyamide fibers.

Abstract: Compounds of the general formula I ##STR1## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently of one another are each C.sub.6 -C.sub.24 -alkyl or are each benzyl which is unsubstituted or substituted by alkyl or by cycloalkyl, and one of the radicals may furthermore be hydrogen, and the rings A, B, C and D can be further substituted by chlorine, methyl or methoxy, with the exception of the compound of the formula ##STR2## are useful as dyes in electrooptical liquid crystal displays or for the production of polarization films.

Abstract: Trisazo compounds of the formula ##STR1## where Z is ##STR2## X and Y independently of one another are each C.sub.1 -C.sub.24 -alkoxy, benzyloxy, phenylethoxy, mono-C.sub.1 -C.sub.24 -alkylamino, monobenzylamino, monophenylethylamino, monophenylamino, bis-C.sub.1 -C.sub.24 -alkylamino, N-C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 -alkyl-N-benzylamino, N-C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 -alkyl-N-phenylethylamino or N-C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 -alkyl-N-phenylamino, where the benzene rings are unsubstituted or substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 -alkyl, cyclohexyl, 4-C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 -alkylcyclohexyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.24 -alkoxy, phenoxy or C.sub.1 -C.sub.24 -alkanoyloxy, R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 independently of one another are each hydrogen, methyl, methoxy, or chlorine and R.sup.7 is hydrogen or methyl, and the ring A or B may furthermore carry a fused benzene ring, are very useful as dyes in liquid crystal media, for example for electrooptical displays.

Abstract: Process for improving the application properties of disazo pigments obtained by coupling bis-diazotized chlorine-substituted 4,4'-diaminobiphenyls with acetoacetylaminobenzenes, which includes adding sulfite ions to the pigment suspension obtained in the coupling and then heating for one half to two hours at 50.degree. to 100.degree. C. The process produces, above all in large scale industrial batches, a product of uniform quality and having acceptable fastness to solvents, overlacquering, migration and bleeding.

Abstract: The invention relates to disazo pigments of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is an ethyl, propyl or isopropyl radical. These pigments colour plastics, especially rigid PVC, in brown shades of excellent fastness properties.

Abstract: Anthraquinone-azo pyridone-containing compounds which in one of their tautomeric structures, correspond to the formula ##STR1## in which A denotes an .alpha.-anthraquinone radical which is free from sulphonic acid groups and is unsubstituted or substituted and preferably consists of at most 5 fused rings;R.sub.1 denotes hydrogen; alkyl, preferably C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl; aryl, preferably phenyl or naphthyl; carboxyl; carboxylic acid ester, preferably carboxylic acid C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl ester; or hydroxyl andR.sub.2 denotes hydrogen; halogen; nitro; cyano; unsubstituted or substituted carbamoyl or sulphamoyl; alkylcarbonyl, in particular (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl)-carbonyl; alkoxycarbonyl, in particular (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy)-carbonyl; alkyl- or unsubstituted or substituted aryl-sulphone, preferably C.sub.1 -C.sub.

Abstract: Lithium salts of anionic dyes are prepared by first converting another salt of this anionic dye in aqueous solution or suspension by means of a compound which releases calcium ions into the water-insoluble or sparingly water-soluble calcium salt of the dye, which is separated from the aqueous medium and is then converted to an aqueous suspension by treatment with lithium sulfate or lithium hydrogensulfate or a mixture thereof in an equivalent amount of each or in an excess of up to 10% into its lithium salt.

Abstract: Water-soluble azo compounds, having fiber-reactive properties and yielding (for instance, on cellulose fiber materials) deep and fast dyeings and prints, of the formula ##STR1## in which D is phenylene which can be substituted by one or two subtituents from the group consisting of lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, hydroxy, lower alkanoylamino, benzoylamino, benzoylamino substituted by lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, chlorine and/or sulfo, chlorine, bromine, fluorine and carboxy and/or by a nitro group and/or by a further group of the formula Y--SO.sub.2 --(CH.sub.2).sub.

Abstract: A water-soluble dye, free from cellulose reactive groups, of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is --(C.sub.a H.sub.2a O).sub.m (C.sub.b H.sub.2b O).sub.n H,R.sup.2 is H or --(C.sub.a H.sub.2a O).sub.m (C.sub.b H.sub.2b O).sub.n H, orR.sup.1 & R.sup.2 together with the nitrogen atom form a morpholine ringa & b are different and from 1 to 8m is from 1 to 10;n is from 0 to 9;M is H, ammonium, or a monovalent metal;X (i) NR.sup.1 R.sup.2, (ii) NR.sup.3 R.sup.4, in which R.sup.3 and R.sup.

Abstract: Water-soluble monoazo and disazo compounds having fiber-reactive dye properties which are suitable for dyeing carboxamido and/or hydroxy-containing materials, in particular cellulose fiber materials, and contain as coupling component that of a naphthol, aminonaphthalene or aminobenzene and as diazo component an optionally chlorine-, alkyl-, alkoxy- and/or sulfo-substituted phenyl radical or an optionally substituted phenylazophenyl or phenylazonaphthyl radical having the fiber-reactive group of the general formula ##STR1## in which the two R.sup.1, identical to or different from each other, denote a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R is a hydrogen atom or a sulfo group and Y represents the vinyl group or a .beta.-thiosulfatoethyl, .beta.-phosphatoethyl, .beta.-chloroethyl or .beta.-sulfatoethyl group, as substituent, and a further such fiber-reactive grouping can be bonded to the radical of the coupling component.

Abstract: Water-soluble disazo compounds which have fiber-reactive dye properties, which are suitable for dyeing carboxamido- and/or hydroxy- containing materials, in particular cellulose fiber materials, and which contain as bivalent coupling component 1-amino-8-naphthol-3,6- or -4,6-disulfonic acid and as diazo components an optionally substituted phenyl radical or naphthyl radical, one or both of the diazo components possessing a fiber-reactive group of the general formula ##STR1## in which the two R.sup.1, identical to or different from each other, denote a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R is a hydrogen atom of a sulfo group and Y represents the vinyl group or a .beta.-thiosulfatoethyl, .beta.-phosphatoethyl, .beta.-chloroethyl or .beta.-sulfatoethyl group, and it being possible for one of these diazo components also to contain, as substituent in place of this fiber-reactive grouping, a fiber-reactive group of the formula --SO.sub.

Abstract: A compound, or a salt thereof, represented by the following formula, ##STR1## wherein A is a substituted or unsubstituted phenylene or naphthylene group, B is ##STR2## in which R.sub.3 is a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, acylamino or ureido group, and R.sub.4 is a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl or lower alkoxy group, R.sub.1 and R.sub.3 are independently a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl group, X is a substituted or unsubstituted amino, lower alkoxy, substituted phenoxy or sulfo group, Y is --SO.sub.2 CH.dbd.CH.sub.2 or --SO.sub.2 CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 Z, in which Z is a group capable of being split by the action of an alkali, and m is 2 or 3, which is useful for dyeing hydroxyl group- or amide group-containing fiber materials to give dyed products of a brown color having excellent fastness properties with good build-up property.

Abstract: The present invention concerns the disazo pigment of the formula ##STR1## The new pigment is useful for coloring plastic material in pure red shades of high tinctorial strength and outstanding fastness to light and migration.

Abstract: Disazo compounds of the formula I ##STR1## in which X and Y are identical or different and denote hydrogen, bromine, chlorine, methyl, methoxy, ethoxy, nitro, trifluoromethyl, carbomethoxy or carboethoxy, A.sup.1 and A.sup.2, independently of each other, represent hydrogen, methyl or ethyl and Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 in the 6- or 7-position of the heteroaromatic ring system, independently of each other, represent hydrogen, bromine, chlorine, methyl, methoxy, ethoxy, carbomethoxy, carboethoxy or nitro, are obtained by coupling a monodiazotized p-diaminobenzene substituted by X and Y analogously to the formula I with a 5-acetoacetylaminobenzimidazolone which carries the radicals A.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 analogously to the formula I, and reacting the resulting aminoazo compound after another diazotization with a 5-acetoacetylaminobenzimidazolone which carries the radicals A.sup.2 and Z.sup.2 analogously to the formula I, to give the disazo compound of the formula I.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a diazocyano acid, which comprises reacting a keto-acid or its sodium salt with a cyanogen compound such as sodium cyanide or hydrogen cyanide and a hydrazine in water to form a concentrated aqueous solution of a hydrazo compound, adding acetone and/water to the concentrated aqueous solution to form a solution of the hydrazo compounds, adding chlorine gas to the solution to oxidize the hydrazo compound and form a diazocyano acid, adding acetone to the obtained reaction mixture during or after the oxidation if necessary, and separating and recovering the supernatant layer of the acetone-water solution containing the diazocyano acid from the mixture.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a diazocyano acid, which comprises reacting a keto-acid or its sodium salt with a cyanogen compound such as sodium cyanide or hydrogen cyanide and a hydrazine in water to form a concentrated aqueous solution of a hydrazo compound, adding acetone or acetone and water to the concentrated aqueous solution to form an acetone-water solution of the hydrazo compound, adding an oxidant such as chlorine gas to the solution to oxidize the hydrazo compound and form a diazocyano acid, forming at least two transparent liquid layers by adding acetone and/or water to the obtained reaction mixture during or after oxidation if necessary, and further adding sodium chloride to the reaction mixture if necessary, and separating and recovering the upper layer of the acetone-water solution containing the diazocyano acid from the mixture.

Abstract: Physiologically acceptable cation salts of (2-alkoxy-4-sulfonyl-5-alkylphenyl)azo-1-hydroxynaphthalene sulfonic acids useful as blue-red colorants for textile fabrics, cellulosic fibers and edible compositions are prepared by diazotizing 2-alkoxy-4-sulfonyl-5-alkylanilines and coupling the resulting diazo compounds to a 1-hydroxynaphthalene mono- or disulfonic acid.

Abstract: A red reactive dye represented by a free acid of the formula, ##STR1## wherein X is a hydrogen atom, a methyl, methoxy or sulfonic acid group, Y is --CH.dbd.CH.sub.2, --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 Y.sub.1 or --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OY.sub.2 (in which Y.sub.1 is a halogen atom, and Y.sub.2 is the residue of polybasic acids), R is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each a hydrogen atom, a methyl or ethyl group, and the azo group is located on a meta-or para-position of the benzene ring A with respect to the --NR.sub.2 -- group and the sulfonic acid group on the benzene ring A is adjacent to the azo group. This dye is suitable for dyeingcellulose fibers red to afford dyeings superior in fastnesses, acid stability, build-up property, level dyeing property and white dischargeability.

Abstract: Polymers from ethylenically unsaturated monomers, cross-linked by a substituted or unsubstituted divinylazobenzene are useful as carriers or capsules for medicaments, which are degraded by the enzymes of the upper gastrointestinal tract or which must be transferred intact past the upper gastrointestinal tract, to deliver the medicament to the large intestine.Polymers containing monomeric units of the formulaH.sub.2 C.dbd.CH--C.sub.6 H.sub.4 --N.dbd.N--M,wherein M is the residue of an amino-containing medicament, are useful as carriers for therapeutic agents or as therapeutic agents per se.

Abstract: A water-soluble azo compund of formula ##STR1## in which Y is vinyl or --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --Z in which Z is chlorine, bromine, fluorine, lower alkanoyloxy, benzoyloxy, sulfobenzoyloxy, benzenesulfonyloxy, toluenesulfonyloxy, lower alkylsulfonylamino, arylsulfonylamino, phenoxy, dialkylamino, each alkyl being of from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, thiosulfato, phosphato or sulfato;n is the number zero or 1;D is phenylene unsubstituted or substituted by one or two substituents selected from the group consisting of lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, hydroxy, lower alkanoylamino, chlorine, bromine, fluorine and carboxy; by one nitro substituent; by one sulfo substituent; by one substituent of the formula Y--SO.sub.2 --(CH.sub.2).sub.n -- in which n is 1; by a plurality of substituents selected from the group consisting of said one or two substituents, said one nitro substituent, said one sulfo substituent and said one substituent of the formula Y--SO.sub.2 --(CH.sub.2).sub.

Abstract: The invention provides new reaction dyestuffs of the formula ##STR1## where n and m are each 0 or 1 such that n+m=1 or 2 and whereG is a radical of the formula ##STR2## wherein B is a direct bond between D or D' and X or represents a bridge member as described in the specification,X is S, SO or SO.sub.2,Y is optionally substituted alkylene,R is H, optionally substituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl or optionally substituted C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 -alkylene or optionally substituted phenylalkylene,Z is a fibre-reactive radical, and whereD and D' are as defined in the body of the Application.On hydroxyl- or amide-containing textile materials the new reactive dyestuffs produce prints and dyeings of a high fastness level.

Abstract: The invention relates to new arylazo compounds of the general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 independently of each other represent hydrogen or C.sub.1-3 alkyl, R.sub.3 represents hydrogen, halogen, C.sub.1-3 alkyl, C.sub.1-3 alkoxy, carboxy, C.sub.1-3 alkoxycarbonyl, C.sub.1-3 alkylcarbonyl or a group X--NH--SO.sub.2 --, wherein X represents a heterocyclic ring, R.sub.4 represents hydrogen, halogen or C.sub.1-3 alkyl, and n is the integer 1 or 2, the two groups ##STR2## being the same or different when n is 2, and lactones and salts thereof. The compounds of formula I have a high inhibiting effect on prostaglandin synthetizing and inactivating enzymes and may therefore be used as a drug and anti-fertility agent. The invention also relates to preparation of the compounds of formula I as well as pharmaceutical compositions containing the same.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula I ##STR1## in which each R.sub.1, independently, is hydrogen, C.sub.1-8 alkyl, C.sub.2-3 alkyl substituted by one or two substituents selected from the group consisting of halo, hydroxy, cyano, methoxy, ethoxy and (C.sub.1-2 alkoxy)carbonyl or cyclohexyl, and each R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, independently, is hydrogen, chlorine, bromine, methyl, methoxy or ethoxy, their production and use as pigments for the mass pigmentation of, for example, viscose, surface coatings such as oil and water base paints and lacquers and inks, pigment printing, textile coating and pigmenting paper in the mass.

Abstract: New inclusion compound, intercalation compounds or solid solutions which are the nickel salts or nickel complexes of a compound which, in one of its tauteromeric structures, corresponds to the formula ##STR1## which contain at least one other included compound, except for one composition of matter which consists of 45 to 82% by weight of azobarbituric acid/nickel 1:1 complex, 3 to 15% by weight of benzene-sulphonamide, 5 to 20% by weight of nickel acetate and 10 to 20% by weight of water and the use of these materials as pigments are disclosed.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for the preparation of concentrated stable liquid dye solutions of CI Direct Yellow 11 starting with the product of the basic condensation of para-nitrotoluene-ortho-sulfonic acid in the form of its tetrasodium reaction mass or the wet filter cake separation of the solids from said mass and the reaction liquids or the dry technical grade sodium complex which is the dried filter cake. The solid starting material is suspended in a lower alkanol/water medium; the suspension is acidified to a pH below about 2.5 to acidify each sulfo moiety on the chromophore and to form the free inorganic salt; this acidified suspension is heated to assure completion of the metathetical salt-forming reaction; after sufficient heating, the mixture of the acidified chromophore and the salt is neutralized to a pH in the range 6.0 to 7.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for the preparation of concentrated stable liquid dye solutions of CI Direct Yellow 11 starting with the tetrasodium complex of the stilbeneazo(xy) based-catalyzed condensation of 4-nitro-toluene-2-sulfonic acid, the wet-cake or the dried technical grade of the condensed tetrasodium complex. The process comprises the steps of forming an aqueous suspension of the starting materials which are admixed with the extended surface silica filter aid and the resulting slurry is acidified with a strong inorganic acid to pH below about 2.