Abstract: A water-insoluble colorant dispersion, having: fine particles of a water-insoluble colorant, each of the fine particles containing at least two kinds of colorant; and a polymer compound having at least one repeating unit selected from the group consisting of repeating units represented by the following Formula (1) and (2); wherein, R6 to R8 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent; X? is an anion group balancing with the cation electric charge on the nitrogen atom; R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; J represents a specific divalent linking, an alkyl group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group; W represents a single bond or a divalent linking group; R9 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; Q2 represents a group of atoms which is necessary for forming an unsaturated ring together with a carbon atom and a nitrogen atom.

Abstract: A water-insoluble colorant dispersion, containing water; a polymer having at least one repeating unit selected from the group of repeating units represented by the following formula (1) or (2); and water-insoluble colorant particles, each of the particles containing at least two kinds of pigments; wherein, R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; any one of R2 to R5 represents a single bond to bind to W, and the others each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent; J represents —CO—, —COO—, —CONR10, —OCO—, or a methylene group, a phenylene group, or —C6H4CO—; R10 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group; W represents a single bond or a divalent linking group; A1 represents a heterocyclic group; Q1 represents a group of atoms which is necessary for forming a ring together with a carbon atom.

Abstract: Provided herein are compositions useful as ink or coatings which contain novel dispersants that are capable of dispersing pigments which are traditionally difficult to disperse while maintaining acceptable levels of viscosity. Use of dispersants as taught herein enables the preparation of a wide variety of inks and coatings having high pigment loading and existing within a conventionally-useful viscosity range.

Abstract: To provide a chloroprene rubber composition with which a vulcanized rubber having further improved heat resistance without impairing mechanical properties, the compression set and the tension fatigue can be obtained, and a rubber member for an automobile, a hose, a rubber molded article and a rubber vibration insulator comprising the vulcanized rubber. A chloroprene rubber composition, which comprises 100 parts by mass of at least one chloroprene rubber selected from the group consisting of a xanthogen-modified chloroprene rubber and a mercaptan-modified chloroprene rubber, and from 15 to 200 parts by mass of carbon black having a number average particle size of from 70 nm to 600 nm and having a DBP oil absorption of from 15 ml/100 g to 60 ml/100 g by oil absorption method A of JIS K6221.

Abstract: The inventive oil base ink composition for ink jet recording has a binder resin, a dispersant and at least C.I. Pigment Yellow 213 as an organic pigment contained in an organic solvent comprising a specific polyalkylene glycol dialkyl ether and a specific cyclic ester, and having a boiling point of 150° C. to 280° C. This ink composition is highly safe for the human body, ensures that print quality is maintained over extended periods of time, and is improved in weather resistance.

Abstract: Provided by the invention is a non-halogen flame-retardant thermoplastic resin composition not requiring crosslinking with a peroxide, having excellent in moldability, and moreover, having high flame-retardancy to pass the test for V-0 grade of the UL-94. standards The non-halogen flame-retardant thermoplastic resin composition comprises, as a uniform blend: (A) 100 parts by mass of a thermoplastic resin other than polycarbonate and polyphenylene ether resins, (B) 10 to 300 parts by mass of an inorganic powder, (C) 1 to 50 parts by mass of an organopolysiloxane having a specified structure, and (D) 0.01 to 10 parts by mass of an organic compound having a specified structure.

Abstract: Curable polyurethane, polyurea and polyurethane/polyurea compositions that are particularly useful as the outer layer and/or at least one inner layer of golf balls, cured compositions, golf balls comprising the cured composition, and methods of increasing the initial velocity of a golf ball using the curable polyurethane, polyurea and polyurethane/polyurea compositions are disclosed.

Abstract: A method of stabilizing a normally solid polyalkylene carbonate resin against thermal and hydrolytic decomposition, including the step of adding a cyclic amine selected from the group consisting of imidazole and 2-ethyl 4-methylimidazole at a wt. % of 5 to 45% of the normally solid polycarbonate resin. And, a method of producing tough coatings with excellent adhesion to both ferrous and non-ferrous metals, including the steps of: a) dissolving polyalkylene carbonate resin and a cyclic amine selected from the group of consisting of imidazole and 2-ethyl 4-methylimidazole at a wt.

Abstract: A nanoscale pigment particle composition includes an organic benzimidazolone pigment, and a sterically bulky stabilizer compound, wherein the benzimidazolone pigment associates non-covalently with the sterically bulky stabilizer compound that is a substituted pyridine derivative; and the presence of the associated stabilizer limits the extent of particle growth and aggregation, to afford nanoscale pigment particles.

Abstract: The invention relates to a new ? crystal modification of the pigment of formula (I) characterized by a CuK? X-ray powder diagram having maxima at 8.5, 14.7, 17.2, 26.0 and 28.4 2?, as well as to a process for its preparation and compositions comprising it.

Abstract: The invention provides a curable fluoroelastomeric composition comprising: (i) a fluoropolymer comprising at least one cure site monomer that comprises at least one cyano group; (ii) a cure system comprising a functionalized biphenyl-based compound and at least one of: a dioxime compound represented by the formula (I): HON?R1?NOH wherein R1 is chosen from an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms and an aryl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms; a monoamidine-based compound represented by formula (IV): wherein Y is chosen from a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, aryl, or aralkyl group or an unsubstituted or substituted fully or partially halogenated alkyl, aryl, or aralkyl group having to 22 carbon atoms; R4 is chosen from a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or an amino group; R5 is independently chosen from hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an amino group or an hydroxyl group; and/or a p

Abstract: A nanoscale pigment particle composition includes an organic benzimidazolone pigment, and a sterically bulky stabilizer compound, wherein the benzimidazolone pigment associates non-covalently with the sterically bulky stabilizer compound that is an alkylated derivative of an aromatic acid; and the presence of the associated stabilizer limits the extent of particle growth and aggregation, to afford nanoscale pigment particles.

Abstract: A non-aqueous inkjet ink includes a benzimidazolone pigment and a polymeric dispersant according to Formula (I): wherein, T represents hydrogen or a polymerization terminating group; Z represents the residue of polyethyleneimine having a number-average molecular weight of at least 100; A represents an oxyalkylene carbonyl group; T-C(O)An- represents a TPOAC-chain which is bound to Z through an amide bond; and n and m are integers wherein m is at least 2 and n is from 2 to 100; the polymeric dispersant fulfills the conditions of: WTPOAC>57 and NAmide?65 mol % wherein WTPOAC represents the ratio of the weight percentage of TPOAC-chains over the weight percentage of amide bonds in the polymeric dispersant; NAmide represents the mol % of amide bonds based on the total nitrogen content of the polymeric dispersant; and the values of WTPOAC and NAmide are calculated from the total nitrogen content determined by dry combustion of the polymeric dispersant and from the amine content determined thro

Abstract: Nanoscale particles of benzimidazolone pigments are made by providing one or more organic pigment precursor(s) to a benzimidazolone pigment, providing a solution or suspension of a sterically bulky stabilizer compound that associates non-covalently with a benzimidazolone moiety on one of the pigment precursors, wherein the sterically bulky stabilizer compound is selected from the group consisting of substituted pyridine derivatives, alkylated benzimidazolone compounds, alkylated derivatives of aromatic acids, and mixtures thereof, and carrying out a coupling reaction to form a benzimidazolone pigment composition, whereby one or more functional moieties on the benzimidazolone pigment is non-covalently associated with the sterically bulky stabilizer, so as to limit an extent of particle growth and aggregation and results in nanoscale pigment particles.

Abstract: A dispersion of a water-insoluble colorant containing: a medium containing water; fine particles of the water-insoluble colorant; and a polymer compound or a surfactant that includes at least one kind of electron-withdrawing group or group of atoms represented by any one of formulae (I) to (IV) as its hydrophilic part: wherein at least one of X1 and X2 represents an electron-withdrawing linking group on the condition that when at least one of X1 and X2 is not the linking group, the at least one of X1 and X2 represents an electron-withdrawing substituent; R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; and M represents a hydrogen atom or a metal atom.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a vibration-proof rubber composition provided by replacing conventional vulcanization system with a new hybrid crosslinking system and using 2-mercaptobenzimidazole as a component of an aging inhibitor. With optimized proportions of constituents, the present composition provides improved heat resistance, fatigue resistance, and dynamic characteristics.

Abstract: Extrudable white-filled polyolefin compositions which exhibit reduced die drool are provided. More particularly, the compositions are white or opaque compositions comprising a polyolefin, whitening or opacifying inorganic filler and a mercaptobenzimidazole compound.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a latent thermosetting ink formulation for ink jet applications comprising a phenolic resin, an amino resin and a polyol. The formulation is characterized as having a viscosity of lower than 50 Cps at a shear rate of 10 to 100,000 sec-1 at a temperature lower than 100 C and a surface tension lower than 40 dynes/cm.

Abstract: The invention provides a colored curable composition including: (A) a pigment dispersion containing (a-1) a pigment, (a-2) a compound having a pigment skeletal structure and an amino group in its molecule, and (a-3) a dispersion resin; (B) an oxime-based initiator; and (C) a polymerizable compound. The invention provides a colored curable composition that is useful for forming a colored region of a color filter, which even with a high content of a pigment, is capable of curing with high sensitivity, is excellent in developability and is capable of highly finely forming a thin-layer colored region excellent in hue. Further, the invention provides a color filter provided with a high fine thin-layer colored region excellent in color properties formed by the colored curable composition of the invention, and a solid image pickup device provided with the color filter, which is excellent in color properties.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pigment formulation comprising a pigment (A) treated with an oligomeric or polymeric amine or encapsulated in a polymer, to processes for the preparation thereof and also to the use thereof in producing coloured plastics or coloured polymer particles.

Abstract: A non-aqueous pigment dispersion includes a color pigment, a polymeric dispersant, and a dispersion synergist wherein the molecular weight of the anionic part of the dispersion synergist containing at least one carboxylate anion is smaller than 98% of the molecular weight of the color pigment and that the anionic part of the dispersion synergist has a similarity coefficient SIM of at least 0.5 with the similarity coefficient defined by: SIM = t · C S + P - C wherein, S represents the number of atoms in the anionic part of the dispersion synergist; P represents the number of atoms in the color pigment; C represents the largest number of atoms in common between the anionic part of the dispersion synergist and the color pigment as one continuous structure; and t is an integer representing the number of times that the largest number of atoms in common C fits into the organic color pigment, without using atoms of the color pigment twice.

Abstract: There is provided a pigment dispersion comprising at least one resin-coated pigment comprising a resin and a pigment, and having an average particle diameter of 250 nm or less, and a dispersion medium containing as a major component a cation polymeric compound having a viscosity of 30 mPa·s or less at a temperature of 25° C. and a boiling point of 150° C. or more at 1 atm. The pigment is incorporated in the pigment dispersion at a ratio ranging from 3 to 41% by weight based on a total weight of the dispersion medium, and the resin is incorporated in the resin-coated pigment at a ratio ranging from 5 to 37% by weight based on the weight of the pigment.

Abstract: A pigment dispersion comprising a colour pigment and a polymeric dispersant having at least one pending chromophore group covalently bound to the polymeric backbone of the polymeric dispersant through a linking group wherein the at least one pending chromophore group is a derivative from a colour pigment selected from the group consisting of monoazo pigments, disazo pigments, ?-naphtol pigments, naphtol AS pigments, azo pigment lakes, benzimidazolone pigments, disazo condensation pigments, metal complex pigments, isoindolinone pigments, isoindolinine pigments, phthalocyanine pigments, quinacridone pigments, diketopyrrolo-pyrrole pigments, thioindigo pigments, anthraquinone pigments, anthrapyrimidine pigments, indanthrone pigments, flavanthrone pigments, pyranthrone pigments, anthanthrone pigments, isoviolanthrone pigments, aluminium pigment lakes, dioxazine pigments, triarylcarbonium pigments and quinophthalone pigments; the at least one pending chromophore group is a chromophore group occurring as a side gr

Abstract: The present invention relates to azo dyes of formula (1) which are soluble in organic solvents, wherein R1 is —CN, —COOR5, —CONR6R7 or a heterocyclic ring, R2 is unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, unsubstituted or substituted aryl, —CF3, —COOR5, —CONR6R7 or —COR5, R3 is hydrogen, —SO3M, alkyl, alkoxy, alkylcarbonyl, —NO2 or halogen, R4 is substituted aryl, substituted heteroaryl or an aryl-N?N-aryl radical, wherein one or both of the aryl radicals in aryl-N?N-aryl is/are unsubstituted or substituted, or a radical heteroaryl-N?N-heteroaryl, wherein one or both of the heteroaryl radicals in heteroaryl-N?N-heteroaryl is/are unsubstituted or substituted, R5 is hydrogen, alkyl or unsubstituted or substituted aryl, R6 is hydrogen, alkyl or unsubstituted or substituted aryl, R7 is hydrogen, alkyl or unsubstituted or substituted aryl, M+ is a cation, n is a number 1, 2 or 3 and m is a number 1, 2 or 3, to a process for the preparation thereof and to the use thereof in the production of colored plastics or polymeric

Abstract: Dispersion of filler(s) in polymeric compositions are improved by the use of a polymer-filler coupling compound, Q—A—B, wherein Q comprises a dipolar nitrogen-containing moiety that can form a 1,3 dipolar addition to an unsaturated carbon-carbon bond; B is an oxazoline, thiazoline, alkoxysilane or allyltin moiety, and A is a linking atom or group that forms a bridge between Q and B.

Abstract: Diketopyrrolopyrroles of the formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 independently of one another are a C1–C4 alkyl radical or a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl radical, wherein the phenyl radical can be substituted by 1, 2, 3 or 4 substituents from the group C1–C4 alkyl, C1–C4 alkoxy, CN, F, Cl, Br, NO2, CF3, S—C1–C4 alkyl, phenyl or (C1–C2)alkylenephenyl, with the proviso that at least one of the radicals, R1, R2, R3, or R4, is one of the stated substituted or unsubstituted phenyl radicals.

Abstract: Crosslinkable, flame retardant insulation compositions having improved resistance to scorch are provided. The compositions are comprised of a base resin, hydrated inorganic filler, coupling agent and stabilizer and formulated with a peroxide/scorch retardant combination, specifically, a combination of ?,??-bis(t-butylperoxy)diisopropyl benzene and 2,4-diphenyl-4-methyl-1-pentene.

Abstract: The invention discloses a stabilized resin composition comprising a thermoplastic resin and a stabilizing benzimidazole based additive compound. In a second embodiment, the invention discloses a method to make a stabilized composition comprising a benzimidazole based stabilizing compound and a resin, said method comprising mixing said benzimidazole based stabilizing compound with said resin.

Abstract: The invention discloses a stabilised resin composition comprising a thermoplastic resin and a stabilizing benzimidazole based additive compound. In a second embodiment, the invention discloses a method to make a stabilized composition comprising a benzimidazole based stabilising compound and a resin, said method comprising mixing said benzimidazole based stabilising compound with said resin.

Abstract: A pigment having weak dispersion force to be readily dispersed in a medium to be colored from which an excellent yellow image having superior transparency can be produced. The pigment includes a compound having the same chemical formula as C.I. Pigment Yellow 180. The BET specific surface area based on the nitrogen absorption process of the pigment is 20-100 m2/g, and the ratio of the absolute strength of X-ray diffraction at Bragg angle 2&thgr;=17.5°±0.2° to the absolute strength of X-ray diffraction at Bragg angle 2&thgr;=18.2°±0.2° of the pigment in a powder X-ray diffraction diagram using a CuK&agr; characteristic X-ray is less than 1.8/1.0. The present invention also provides a dispersion including the pigment and a thermoplastic resin having excellent transparency and color strength.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel soluble pigment precursors possessing not only higher thermal stability but also improved solubility characteristics and to a process for mass colouration of high temperature polymers that utilizes these novel soluble pigment precursors.

Abstract: Process for the hydrogenation of a polymer composed of conjugated diene monomer units and a nitrile group-containing monomer units, in which hydrogenation is carried out in the presence of hydrazine, and an oxidizing compound, with the hydrogenation being carried out in the presence of a antioxidant. It is preferred for NBR to be used as polymer.

Abstract: To provide a fluorine-containing resin powder coating composition giving a fluorine containing resin coating film having a high whiteness, and various articles having on an outer surface thereof a coating of which has a high whiteness and can be produced by applying the fluorine-containing resin powder coating composition. The fluorine-containing resin powder coating composition is subjected To baking at 300° C. or more, and the fluorine-containing resin composition for forming the coating film comprises surface-treated rutile titanium oxide particles as a whitening agent.

Abstract: The present invention provides Pigment Yellow 180 having an excellent transparency produced by using a fine slurry of 5-acetoacetylamino-benzimidazolone as a coupling component when Pigment Yellow 180 is produced by coupling reaction of 5-acetoacetylamino-benzimidazolone and diazo component obtained by diazotization of 1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethane.

Abstract: This invention relates to a conjugated diene-based rubber composition reinforced with silica-based reinforcement together with a non-silane coupling agent as N-3-(1,2-dihydroxypropyl)-N-oleylammonium bromide and/or N-3-(1,2-dihydroxypropyl)-N-methyl-2-mercaptoimidazolium bromide for endeavoring to both couple synthetic aggregates of precipitated silica to elastomers and enhancing electrical conductivity of such rubber compositions which contain less than 25 parts by weight carbon black per 100 parts by weight elastomer. Said coupling agent materials may be provided for mixing with said diene-based rubber(s), for example, as individual materials, as at least one of said materials being supported on a carbon black carrier or as being pre-reacted, or otherwise pre-treated, with synthetic silica aggregates. The invention includes an article of manufacture, including a tire, having at least one component comprised of such rubber composition.

Abstract: Flame retardant compositions useful as insulation for 150° C.-rated wire and cable applications are provided. The compositions of the invention utilize an ethylene-alkyl acrylate copolymer base resin with a two-component stabilizer package consisting of a zinc salt of a mercaptobenzimidazole and an aromatic secondary amine compound. Also, included to achieve the requisite flame retardance, crosslinkability and physical properties are a brominated flame retardant, antimony trioxide, a hydrated inorganic filler and a chemical crosslinking agent.

Abstract: Flame retardant compositions useful as insulation for 150° C.-rated wire and cable applications are provided. The compositions of the invention utilize an ethylene-alkyl acrylate copolymer base resin with a two-component stabilizer package consisting of a zinc salt of a mercaptobenzimidazole and an aromatic secondary amine compound. Also, included to achieve the requisite flame retardance, crosslinkability and physical properties are a brominated flame retardant, antimony trioxide, a hydrated inorganic filler and a chemical crosslinking agent.

Abstract: Compositions useful for coating wire and cable to provide a radiation curable insulation layer are provided. The improved compositions of the invention, when cured, have a balance of properties making them suitable for automotive and appliance wire applications. The compositions are comprised of an ethylene copolymer, a hydrated inorganic filler, an alkoxysilane and a zinc salt of a mercaptobenzimidazole compound.

Abstract: The present application relates to a white, biaxially oriented, flame-retardant, UV-resistant polyester film with at least one base layer which comprises, based on the weight of the base layer, from 2 to 60% by weight of a cycloolefin copolymer (COC), where the glass transition temperature of the COC is within the range from 70 to 270° C. The film also comprises from 0.01 to 5.0% by weight of a UV stabilizer as light stabilizer and also comprises from 0.5 to 30% by weight of flame retardant, based in each case on the weight of the layer comprising the UV stabilizer and/or comprising the flame retardant. The film of the invention is suitable for packing foods or other consumable items which are sensitive to light and/or to air, or for use in industry, e.g. in the production of hot-stamping foils or as a label film, or for image-recording papers, printed sheets or magnetic recording cards.

Abstract: A hydrophilic coating having excellent hydrophilicity, which can prevent offensive odor generation, and which has a good antibacterial performance and formability, is formed on an aluminum-containing metal material by coating an aqueous hydrophilization treating liquid containing (A) a glycidyl group-containing, water-soluble organic compound; (B) a water-soluble polymeric or polymerizable compound having a tert-amino group and at least one hydrophilic functional group selected from sulfonic, phosphonic, carboxyl, polyalkyleneglycol, hydroxyl and amide groups; and (C) an antibacterial agent not decomposing at 100° C. or lower, on an aluminum-containing metal material; and heat-drying the coated liquid.

Abstract: Use of solid, rubber-soluble or rubber-dispersible monothiols as stabilizers in melted pressure-sensitive adhesive compositions based on natural rubber or synthetic rubbers, suitable tackifying resins and promoters for increasing the radiation crosslinking yield.

Abstract: Color images with high fixation comparable to that of silver salt photographic images are formed on printing papers, using aqueous ink compositions by ink jet recording. Color images thus formed have high saturation and high resolution. An intercalated compound capable of fixing water-soluble dyes to a printing paper due to the intercalation based on ion-exchanging between them is incorporated into the dye-receiving layer 2 of the paper, on which color images are formed by ink jet recording using an aqueous ink composition containing a water-soluble dye. The content of the intercalated compound in the layer 2 is from 10 to 90% by weight. As the intercalated compound, montmorillonoids are preferred when water-soluble cationic dyes are used while hydrotalcite-group minerals are preferred when water-soluble anionic dyes are used. FIG. 1 is selected.

Abstract: A colored silicone rubber adhesive film and methods of adhesion by means of the silicone rubber adhesive film are disclosed. The silicone rubber adhesive film comprises (A) an organopolysiloxane; (B) a wet method hydrophobized reinforcing silica; (C) an organohydridopolysiloxane; (D) an azo or anthroquinone pigment, and (E) a curing accelerator. The colored silicone rubber adhesive film is easily handled, possesses excellent workability, and most important, makes it possible to verify the degree and the point of completion of the curing due to the presence of the pigment.

Abstract: Improved carbon black concentrates and extrusion compositions produced therefrom are provided. The extrusion compositions are resistant to thermo-oxidative degradation and have significantly improved carbon black dispersion rendering them useful for wire and cable and other applications. The concentrates are mixtures of a mercaptobenzimidazole compound, carbon black and polyolefin resin.

Abstract: Color images with high fixation comparable to that of silver salt photographic images are formed on printing papers, using aqueous ink compositions by ink jet recording. Color images thus formed have high saturation and high resolution. An intercalated compound capable of fixing water-soluble dyes to a printing paper due to the intercalation based on ion-exchanging between them is incorporated into the dye-receiving layer 2 of the paper, on which color images are formed by ink jet recording using an aqueous ink composition containing a water-soluble dye. The content of the intercalated compound in the layer 2 is from 10 to 90% by weight. As the intercalated compound, montmorillonoids are preferred when water-soluble cationic dyes are used while hydrotalcite-group minerals are preferred when water-soluble anionic dyes are used.

Abstract: A rubber composition comprising the following components (A) to (C) and comprising no zinc-containing compound:(A): an ethylene-.alpha.-olefin copolymer rubber, ethylene-.alpha.-olefin-nonconjugated diene copolymer rubber, or, ethylene-.alpha.-olefin copolymer rubber and ethylene-.alpha.-olefin-nonconjugated diene copolymer rubber,(B): magnesium oxide, and(C): carbon black.

Abstract: A monoazo compound synthesized using 2-hydroxynaphthalene-3,6-dicarboxylic acid (or salt thereof), an amide, an ureide or an ester thereof as a coupler is novel, and is superior in water resistance, chemical resistance and solvent resistance. The present invention provides such a novel azo compound and a process for producing the same.

Abstract: A description is given of compounds of the formula I ##STR1## where r is 0 or 1 and y is a number from the range 1-3; X is a direct bond or --NR.sub.8 --, --CO--, --CONH-- or --COO-- or a divalent aliphatic or mixed aromatic-aliphatic C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 hydrocarbon radical;Z is an aromatic, aliphatic or mixed aromatic-aliphatic C.sub.3 -C.sub.18 hydrocarbon radical which is interrupted in the aliphatic moiety by one or more divalent functional groups, in each case in a carbon-carbon single bond, and/or in the aromatic or aliphatic moiety by one or more divalent functional groups, in each case in a carbon-hydrogen bond, possible functional groups being --O--, --NR.sub.8 --, --S--, --SO--, --SO.sub.

Abstract: Compounds selected from the series consisting of the perylenecarboximide, quinacridone, isoindoline, indigoid, azo, benzodipyrrolone, benzodifuranone, furanofuran, pyrrolo?2,5-b!pyrrole and bianthraquinone chromophores containing at least one grouping of formula ##STR1## wherein each A may be N--CN or O, with the proviso that at least one A must be N--CN, X is --N(R)--, --O-- or --S--, R is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 alkyl, unsubstituted or halogen- or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl-substituted phenyl, benzyl or phenethyl, and m and n are each independently of the other 0 or 1.Depending on the nature of their substituents, these compounds can be used as polymer-soluble dyes or as pigments for coloring high molecular weight organic material. They are distinguished by a surprisingly high solid-state fluorescence.

Abstract: Compound of the general formula (I) ##STR1## in which X is an O or S atom or an imino group,Y is an O atom or an imino group,R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are a hydrogen atom, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, an unsubstituted phenyl group or a substituted phenyl group having 1 to 5 substituents from the group consisting of C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy, halogen, nitro, cyano, hydroxyl, CF.sub.3, CONH.sub.2, CONH(C.sub.5 -C.sub.6 -cycloalkyl), CON(C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl).sub.2, CONH(C.sub.1 -C.sub.4)-alkyl, COO(C.sub.1 -C.sub.4)-alkyl, COO(C.sub.5 -C.sub.6 -cycloalkyl) and CONH(phenyl), with the proviso that at least one of the radicals R.sub.1 or R.sub.2 has one of the meanings mentioned which differ from hydrogen,R.sub.3 is a hydrogen atom, a trifluoromethyl group, a halogen atom or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy, a nitro or a cyano group andR.sub.4 and R.sub.5 independently of one another are a hydrogen atom, C.sub.1 -C.sub.