Abstract: Compositions and methods useful for imparting coloration to various substrates including plastics, paper, wood, fabrics, fibers and textiles. Materials comprising water-soluble colorants including an amidine group and a chromophore moiety are contacted with a substrate, and the substrate permitted to dry to provide substantially water-proof coloration on the substrate. In one embodiment an ink, coating, or dye is an aqueous composition comprising one or more amidines as provided herein, which is contained within a vessel that includes a gas at an effective level of pressure to enable the gas to react with an amidine as herein provided, to provide and maintain the amidine substantially in its protonated form prior to application of the aqueous composition to a desired substrate.

Abstract: Processes for coloring a fiber or textile by adding a carbon black product having an organic group attached to the carbon black. In one process at least one diazonium salt reacts with a carbon black in the absence of an externally applied electric current sufficient to reduce the diazonium salt. In another process at least one diazonium salt reacts with a carbon black in a protic reaction medium. Carbon black products which may be prepared according to process of the invention are described as well as uses of such carbon black products in plastic compositions, rubber compositions, paper compositions, and textile compositions.

Abstract: Aromatic allylaminonitro compounds corresponding to formula (I): ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 is hydrogen or an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sup.2 is hydrogen, an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms or an allyl group CH.sub.2 C(R.sup.5)=CH.sub.2, where R.sup.5 is hydrogen or an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sup.3 is carboxyl, hydroxy, nitro, halogen or a group NR.sup.6 R.sup.7, where R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 independently of one another represent hydrogen, an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a hydroxyalkyl or dihydroxyalkyl group containing 2 to 4 carbon atoms or an allyl group CH.sub.2 C(R.sup.8)=CH.sub.2, where R.sup.8 is hydrogen or an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and R.sup.4 is hydrogen or nitro, with the proviso that R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are not both nitro. The compounds are useful for dyeing fibers, particularly human hair.

Abstract: Method of marking a surface of an object by means of a laser light beam.A description is given of a method of decorating or marking, for example, synthetic resin objects by means of an UV-laser or IR-laser by coating the object with a layer of a dye precursor and a coupler in a binder. For the precursor use is made of a heterocyclic mono- or bis-arylsulphonylhydrazone and for the coupler use is made of, for example, an indole, aniline, pyrazoline or malonitrile, so that after irradiation with UV-laser light or IR-laser light an azo-dye (XXX) is formed.

Abstract: Systems are provided for the detection of hydrogen peroxide for determination of analytes, where a N-alkylated 3-oxyaniline derivative is covalently bonded to a bibulous support and the other component for forming an indamine dye may be non-covalently bound to the support. Upon passage of a transport medium across the support in the presence of hydrogen peroxide and a peroxidase, an indamine dye is formed. Where a limited amount of hydrogen peroxide is introduced at a site proximal to one end of the support, and the hydrogen peroxide migrates toward the other end, the distance of color development will be related to the amount of hydrogen peroxide, which can be correlated to the amount of analyte in a sample.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for dyeing cellulosic fibre materials with reactive dyes by the pad dyeing process in the process of an assistant, which process comprises the use of a mixture containing(a) at least one reactive dye of formula ##STR1## wherein Pc, W, k, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, B and R are as defined in claim 1, and(b) at least one colorless compound which contains at least one --SO.sub.2 --Z group, wherein Z is as defined in claim 1.

Abstract: Textile materials made of polyester, triacetate, acetate or polyamide or mixtures thereof are printed by the discharge printing or discharge resist printing technique by using as discharging agent for disperse dyes a 3-aminoreductone of the formula ##STR1## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are identical or different and each is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl and R.sup.4 is linear or branched alkyl or alkenyl of from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, which may be monosubstituted or polysubstituted by hydroxyl, alkoxy of from 1 to 3 carbon atoms in the alkyl or acetoxy, or is a radical --(CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --O).sub.n H where n is from 1 to 10 and which may be etherified with alkyl of from 1 to 3 carbon atoms or esterified with acetyl, or R.sup.4 together with the N-atom is the radical of an aliphatic .alpha.- or .beta.-amino acid of from 2 to 15 carbon atoms, in which case the carboxyl group may be present in neutralized form as an alkali metal, alkaline earth metal or ammonium salt or in esterified form as a C.sub.1 -c.

Abstract: A process for dyeing cellulose fibres or cellulose-containing blend fibres with vat dyes, sulfur dyes, leuco vat ester dyes or azoic dyes by the pad dyeing process without incurring ending, in which an aqueous dyeing liquor is used which, aside from the dye, contains a colorless compound of the formula ##STR1## or of the formula ##STR2## where Q is ##STR3## or .dbd.N--, Y is hydrogen, halogen, cyano, C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 alkyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 alkylsulfonyl,V and W, independently of each other, are each R.sub.2 --X.sub.2 --, R.sub.3 --X.sub.3 --, hydroxyl C.sub.1 --C.sub.5 alkoxy or an unsubstituted or C.sub.1 --C.sub.5 alkyl-- or C.sub.5 --C.sub.6 cycloalkyl-monosubstituted or --disubstituted amino group, the alkyl radical being unsubstituted or substituted by hydroxyl, cyano, sulfo or sulfato,R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, independently of one another, are each an aromatic or heteroaromatic radical,X.sub.1, X.sub.2 and X.sub.

Abstract: A process for the photochemical stabilization of undyed and dyed polyamide or polyurethane fibre material that is characterized in that the fibre material is treated with a water soluble, organic copper, manganese or nickel complex that displays an affinity for the fibres. The polyamide or polyurethane fibre material, e.g., textile, that has been so treated retains its stretch characteristics and elasticity even after prolonged periods of illumination. In addition, in the case of dyed material, treatment with the metal complex results in a marked improvement in light-fastness.