Abstract: A laundry treatment composition which comprises a surfactant and from 0.0001 to 0.1 wt % of a combination of dyes which together have a visual effect on the human eye as a single dye having a peak absorption wavelength on cotton of from 540 nm to 650 nm, preferably from 570 mn to 630 mn, the combination comprising a photostable dye which is substantive to cotton.

Abstract: Compounds of the general formula (I) a process for their preparation and their use for dyeing and/or printing organic substrates.

Abstract: The present invention provides 6-azo-5,5?-dihydroxy-7,7?-disulfo-2,2?-dinaphthylamine derivatives, their use as dyes, dyed paper and formulations comprising them.

Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for mono-, di- or trichromatic dyeing or printing of natural or synthetic polyamide fiber materials, these processes utilizing a) blue-dyeing dye mixture, b) a red-dyeing dye mixture and/or c) a yellow-dyeing dye mixture, and also blue-dyeing, red-dyeing and yellow-dyeing dye mixtures and processes for their preparation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to dyes of the general formula (1) where R1 to R12 and r are each as defined in claim 1, dye mixtures comprising more than one dye of the general formula (1), their preparation and their use for coloring polymers, particularly polyurethane and polyurethane foam.

Abstract: According to the present invention there is provided a liquid composition, preferably aqueous composition, comprising a deposition aid and a hueing dye and preferably a fabric care benefit agent.

Abstract: The present invention claims dyestuffs of formula (I), wherein D, R1 to R7 and n are defined as given in claim 1, a process for their preparation and their use

Abstract: The present invention relates to aqueous liquid formulations comprising 5-25% by weight of a dye composition comprising 70-95% by weight of a dye obtainable by reduction or thermal treatment of Direct Yellow 11 1-30% by weight of a blue direct dye and 0-20% by weight of a red direct dye (all based on the dye composition) 1-15% by weight of a saturated, cyclic or acyclic water-soluble amine comprising a primary, secondary or tertiary amino group and at least one further functional group selected from primary, secondary and tertiary amino groups, OH groups and ether groups, and 1-30% by weight of urea based on the total weight of the aqueous liquid formulation, wherein the total amount of water-soluble amine and urea does not exceed 40% by weight, and also their use for dyeing cellulose material especially paper.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel dyestuffs of formula (I) wherein the substituents have the meanings defined in the claims, the production of such dyestuffs, the use of these dyestuffs and material dyed or printed by such dyestuffs.

Abstract: A composition of certain dyes with a category-2 hair bleach can simultaneously lighten hair up to seven levels and deposit various shades of color in a single step. The dyes are bleach-stable derivatives of azo, triarylmethane, thiazine, or nitro dyes. When linked at the ortho- and/or para-positions relative to the chromophoric centers and auxochrome groups located on or attached to the aromatic rings of these dyes, deactivating or weakly activating chemical groups enhance the dye stability in the alkaline bleach. The absence of ortho and/or para positioned deactivating or weakly-activating substituents, or the presence of strongly activating groups in these positions render the dye molecule susceptible to attack by the bleach and the eventual destruction of these dyes. These deactivating and protective chemical groups may be nitro, halogen, cyano, carboxyl, sulfonic, alkyl or aromatic groups, but not amino, hydroxy, alkoxy or alkylamide groups.

Abstract: The invention relates to basic mono- and bisazo compounds according to formula (I) wherein all substituents are defined as in Claim 1, their production, their use as dyestuffs as well as material dyed with these dyestuffs.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel dyestuffs of formula (I) wherein the substituents have the meanings defined in the claims, the production of such dyestuffs, the use of these dyestuffs and material dyed or printed by such dyestuffs

Abstract: A composition of matter (e.g., a molded article) is described. More particularly, the composition of matter includes: (a) a resinous component selected from at least one member of the group consisting of (co)polyester, (co)polycarbonates, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene, polyamide, polyurethane, polyalkyl(meth)acrylate and styrene copolymers; (b) at least one water-insoluble dye; (c) a carrier represented by the following formula, R1[—O—(CH2)n]mOR2 wherein R2is butyl, R1 is H, n is 2 or 3, and m is 2–35; (d) an emulsifier that is poly(oxy-1,2-ethanediyl), alpha-phenyl-omega-hydroxy, styrenated; and (e) a particulate or plate-like material, such as metal flakes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to dyes of formula wherein R1 is hydrogen, methyl or —BHCO—C1–C4alkyl, R2 is C1–C4alkyl, it being possible for the alkyl chain, from C2 upwards, optionally to be interrupted by an oxygen atom, and R3 has, independent of R2, any of the meanings of R2, and to the process for the preparation thereof and to the use thereof in dyeing or printing semi-synthetic and especially synthetic hydmophobic fiber materials, especially textile materials.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an azo dye of formula wherein D is the radical of a diazo component of the benzene, naphthalene, diphenyl, thiophene, benzothiazole, benzisothiazole, thiadiazole, indazole, benzotriazole, pyrazole, anthraquinone, naphthalic acid imide, chromone, phthalimide or diphenylene oxide series, R1 is an unsubstituted or substituted aryl radical and R2 is an unsubstituted or substituted aryl radical, with the exception of the compounds of formulae (1a) and (1b) to a process for its preparation and to its use in a process for the production of mass-colored plastics or polymeric color particles, and in the dyeing or printing of semi-synthetic or synthetic hydrophobic fiber materials.

Abstract: The present invention relates to dyes of formula (I) wherein R is hydrogen or bromine, R1 is hydrogen, methyl or —NHCO—C1–C4alkyl, R2 is C1–C4alkyl substituted by C1–C4alkoxy and R3 has, independently of R2, any of the meanings of R2, and to the process for the preparation thereof and to the use thereof in dyeing or printing semi-synthetic and especially synthetic hydrophobic fiber materials, especially textile materials.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an azo dye of formula (1), wherein R1 is the radical of a diazo component of the benzene, naphthalene, diphenyl, azobenzene, thiophene, benzothiazole, thiadiazole, indazole, benzatriazole, pyrazole, anthraquinone, naphtholic acid imide, chromone, phthalimide or diphenylene oxide series, R2 is an unsubstitued or substitued aryl radical or an unsubstituted or substituted aralkyl radical and R3 is an unsubstituted or substituted aryl radical or an unsubstituted or substituted aralkyl radical, with the proviso that one of the substituents R2 and R3 is an unsubstituted or substituted aryl radical and the other is an unsubstituted or substituted aralkyl radical, 2-hydroxy-2-phenylethyl being expected as a substituted aralkyl radical, to mixtures comprising at least two structually different azo dyes of formula (1) and to the use of those azo dyes and dye mixtures in the dyeing or printing of semi-synthetic or synthetic hydrophobic fibre materials.

Abstract: Provided is a hair dye composition containing a dissociative direct dye represented by the following formula (1): wherein, R1 to R4 each represents H or substituent, X represents OH or —NHSO2R5, R5 represents an alkyl, aryl or heterocyclic group, and A represents a divalent group capable of forming a methine dye as a whole compound, together with the portion other than A. The hair dye composition of the present invention is capable of strongly dyeing the hair with a vivid color tone without causing decomposition of the dye during the dyeing process, exhibits an excellent resistance against sunlight, hair washing, perspiration, friction and heat, has a high stability against an alkali agent and an oxidizing agent, has a high dyeing property, and has less color fade after the passage of time.

Abstract: Method for the trichromatic dyeing or printing of synthetic polyamide fiber material, wherein at least one red reactive dye of formula 1

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a hair coloring method by using a composition comprising a specified ring-fused heterocycle direct dyestuff having the general formula (1) or a salt thereof wherein the formulas are as defined in the patent claims. Furthermore, the present invention is also directed to the composition. This composition has a surprisingly good hair coloring performance and compatibility with peroxides. The use of this composition leads to long lasting brilliant colors wherein the color is stable against washing of the hair and environmental influences.

Abstract: The invention provides heteroanellated aminophenols of the general formula (I) 1

Abstract: The present invention relates to an azo dye of formula wherein D is the radical of a diazo component of the benzene, naphthalene, diphenyl, thiophene, benzothiazole, benzisothiazole, thiadiazole, indazole, benzotriazole, pyrazole, anthraquinone, naphthalic acid imide, chromone, phthalimide or diphenylene oxide series, R1 is an unsubstituted or substituted aryl radical and R2 is an unsubstituted or substituted aryl radical, with the exception of the compounds of formulae (1a) and (1b) to a process for its preparation and to its use in a process for the production of mass-coloured plastics or polymeric colour particles, and in the dyeing or printing of semi-synthetic or synthetic hydrophobic fibre materials.

Abstract: Disclosed are bisazo compounds of the formula Ia or Ib 1

Abstract: Dye preparations comprising, based in each case on the weight of the preparation, from 0.1 to 30% by weight of one or more dyes from the class of the mono- or polyazo dyes containing no acidic groups, from 0.1 to 20% by weight of a dispersant based on an arylsulfonic acid-formaldehyde condensate or from 0.1 to 20% by weight of a water-soluble dispersant based on alkoxylated phenols with or without water, and their use as inks in the inkjet process and for textile sublimation transfer printing.

Abstract: A compound which can be used as a dye and is represented by the following general formulae (I), (II) and (III). In the general formulae, A and B each independently represents a monovalent heterocyclic group bonded to an azo group by a carbon atom of the monovalent heterocyclic group; m and n each independently represents one of 0 and 1; and M represents one of a hydrogen atom and a monovalent positive ion.

Abstract: A fluidizing agent which is a diamine and/or diquaternary ammonium salt of a coloured acid of the phthalocyanine or disazo series of dyestuffs wherein the diamine or diquaternary ammonium cation is of formula (1) wherein R is optionally substituted C6-30-alkyl or optionally substituted C6-30-alkenyl; R1 is hydrogen, optionally substituted C1-30-alkyl or C2-30-alkenyl, optionally substituted cycloalkyl, optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted aralkyl; R2, R3 and R5 are each, individually, optionally substituted C1-6-alkyl, optionally substituted cycloalkyl, optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted aralkyl; R4 is hydrogen, optionally substituted C1-6-alkyl, optionally substituted cycloalkyl, optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted aralkyl; X is C1-12-alkylene or C2-14-alkenylene; or R1 and R3 together with the two nitrogen atoms to which they are attached and X form a ring; and/or R4 and R5 together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a ring.

Abstract: Hydroxypyridonemethide azo dyes conforming to the formula (I) or its tautomeric forms where X1 to X4, R1 and R2 are each as defined in the description part, are very useful for dyeing and printing hydrophobic synthetic fiber materials and their blends with natural fiber materials.

Abstract: Compositions comprising as components A) at least one bisazo compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of the general formula Ia  and of the general formula Ib  where R1 is C1-C8-alkyl, R2 is C2-C8-alkyl, R3 and R3′ are each C2-C21-alkyl in which up to four CH2 groups of the carbon chain may be replaced by oxygen in ether function, R4 is hydrogen or is R3 (independently of R3), R4′ is hydrogen or is R3′ (independently of R3′), B) at least one solvent in which said component A) is soluble, and optionally C) at least one surface-active substance, are useful as dye penetrants for detecting surface cracks or other defects in workpieces to be tested in this respect.

Abstract: The present invention relates to dyes of formula wherein R1 is hydrogen, bromine, chlorine, cyano, R2 is hydrogen, methyl, acetylamino, R3 is ethyl unsubstituted or substituted by cyano or by acyloxy, R4 is ethyl unsubstituted or substituted by cyano or by acyloxy, to a process for their preparation and to their use in the dyeing or printing of hydrophobic fiber materials.

Abstract: Dye preparations comprising, based in each case on the weight of the preparation, from 0.1 to 30% by weight of one or more dyes from the class of the mono- or polyazo dyes containing no acidic groups, from 0.1 to 20% by weight of a dispersant based on an arylsulfonic acid-formaldehyde condensate or from 0.1 to 20% by weight of a water-soluble dispersant based on alkoxylated phenols with or without water, and their use as inks in the inkjet process and for textile sublimation transfer printing.

Abstract: Colorless markers for petroleum products and methods and composition for detecting them.

Abstract: A compound which can be used as a dye and is represented by the following general formulae (I), (II) and (III). In the general formulae, A and B each independently represents a monovalent heterocyclic group bonded to an azo group by a carbon atom of the monovalent heterocyclic group; m and n each independently represents one of 0 and 1; and M represents one of a hydrogen atom and a monovalent positive ion.

Abstract: This invention relates to colorants comprising a chromophore having two azo acetoacetanilide moieties, wherein said moieties each have at least one poly(oxyalkylene) chain, preferably at least two such chains. Such colorants exhibit extremely good base stability and lightfastness, particularly when incorporated within certain media and/or on the surface of certain substrates. These poly(oxyalkylene) chains provide solubility in different solvents or resins thereby permitting the introduction of such excellent coloring chromophores within diverse media and/or or diverse substrates. Compositions and articles comprising such colorants are provided as are methods for producing such inventive colorants.

Abstract: The invention relates to dyeing compositions containing phenyl-azo-benzene compounds comprising at least one cationic group Z, Z being chosen from quaternized aliphatic chains, aliphatic chains comprising at least one quaternized saturated ring and aliphatic chains comprising at least one quaternized unsaturated ring, to the use of such compositions as direct dyes in dyeing applications for keratin substances, in particular human keratin fibers and especially the hair, and to the direct dyeing processes employing these compositions.

Abstract: This invention relates to colorants comprising organic chromophores, in particular reactive dyes, which comprise electrophilic reactive groups, and which are also covalently bonded to fatty amine moieties through amino linking groups. Such colorants provide excellent colorability and long-term stability, both within (or on) colored substrates and upon long-term storage. Such colorants exhibit particularly good coloring and stability within hydrocarbon compositions, such as fuels, mineral oil, and the like, and wax compositions, including candles, crayons, and the like. Methods of making such colorants as well as methods of coloring hydrocarbon and wax compositions are also contemplated within this invention.

Abstract: Anionic coloring agents comprising at least one spacer arm bounded to their chemical structure. These anionic coloring agents have the following general formula: CA-BE, wherein, CA is an anionic coloring agent comprising at least a cromophore group; and BE is the spacer arm, which has the following chemical structure: —(X—R—Z)r, wherein X is a direct link or a group having the formula —S(O)s, wherein s is 0, 1 or 2; or —NR1—, wherein, R1 is hydrogen or a C1-C10 alkyl group; R is a C1-C10 straight or branched alkylene group: Z is a polar group; and r is an integer equal or higher than 1.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of dyeing a material which involve contacting the material with a dyeing system which comprises: (a) a mixture of (i) an aromatic diamine and (ii) one or more of a naphthol and an aminonaphthalene and (b) an oxidation system comprising (i) a hydrogen peroxide source and an enzyme exhibiting peroxidase activity or (ii) an enzyme exibiting oxidase activity on one or more of the compounds of mixture (a). The material may be a fabric, yarn, fiber, garment or film made of fur, hide, leather, silk or wool, or made of cationic polysaccharide, cotton, diacetate, flax, linen, lyocel, polyacrylic, synthetic polyamide, polyester, ramie, rayon, triacetate, or viscose.

Abstract: Compound of the formula (I) wherein R is hydrogen or optionally substituted C1-C6-alkyl, R1 is hydrogen or C1-C6-alkyl, R2 is hydrogen, optionally substituted C1-C6-alkyl or optionally substituted phenyl, the ring D is optionally substituted by one or more identical or different substituents selected from the group consisting of C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-alkoxy, halogen, especially F, Cl and Br, and SO3H, m is 0 or 1, n is 1, 2 or 3 and as a function of n X is a mono-, di- or trivalent acyl radical, pyrimidine or 1,3,5-triazine radical which is not fiber-reactive.

Abstract: This invention relates to colorants comprising organic chromophores, in particular reactive dyes, which comprise electrophilic reactive groups, and which are also covalently bonded to fatty amine moieties through amino linking groups. Such colorants provide excellent colorability and long-term stability, both within (or on) colored substrates and upon long-term storage. Such colorants exhibit particularly good coloring and stability within hydrocarbon compositions, such as fuels, mineral oil, and the like, and wax compositions, including candles, crayons, and the like. Methods of making such colorants as well as methods of coloring hydrocarbon and wax compositions are also contemplated within this invention.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for printing textile fibre materials by the ink-jet printing process, wherein the fibre materials are printed with an aqueous ink comprising at least one disperse dye, an anionic copolymer and/or a nonionic block polymer and/or a dispersant, and to the inks comprising these components.

Abstract: An aromatic polyester filament yarn dyed in a chromatic color and exhibiting a bright and clear shade, wherein the filaments of the yarn are composed of an aromatic polyester polymer copolymerized with an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid component and/or an aliphatic diol component and having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of not higher than 65° C., the yarn appears as a whole to have been dyed visually uniformly despite that uneven build-up of dye exists in the individual filaments in the longitudinal direction, and the yarn has a chromaticness C* of at least 36 expressed in the L*a*b* color specification system when dyed with an aqueous dispersion of 1% o.w.f. of a disperse dye based on C.I. Disperse Blue 56.

Abstract: The use of linear or cyclic silicon compounds containing at least one chromophoric group of quinone or azo type as direct dyes in dye compositions intended for dyeing human keratin fibres and in particular the hair. The invention also relates to novel silicon compounds and dye compositions containing them, as well as to the corresponding direct dyeing process.

Abstract: The use of linear or cyclic silicon compounds containing at least one chromophoric group of quinone or azo type as direct dyes in dye compositions intended for dyeing human keratin fibers and in particular the hair. The invention also relates to novel silicon compounds and dye compositions containing them, as well as to the corresponding direct dyeing process.

Abstract: The invention discloses a capillary dyeing composition comprising at least one direct dye, wherein the composition further comprises a cross-linked polymer with acrylic units and alkyl C.sub.10 -C.sub.30 acrylate units. The invention also discloses the use of cross-linked polymer with acrylic units and alkyl C.sub.10 -C.sub.30 acrylate units in or for the production of a capillary dyeing composition comprising at least one direct dye, to improve the tinctorial power of the composition, particularly after storage at below about 10.degree. C., and in particular at about 4.degree. C. The invention also discloses a method for preserving the tinctorial power of the composition, particularly after storage at below about 10.degree. C., of a dyeing composition containing at least one direct dye, wherein an effective amount of the cross-linked polymer is added to the composition.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of low-salt liquid dyestuff preparations, characterized in that they are obtained by:a) diazotization of an aromatic amine,b) 2-fold coupling of the diazo component obtained according to a) to I-acid-urea, in the presence of an inorganic base and in the absence of an organic base,c) desalination and, if appropriate, concentration by means of a pressure permeation of the reaction mixture obtained according to b), so that an inorganic salt content of less than 1% by weight is achieved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to dye mixtures comprising at least one compound of the formula (I) ##STR1## and at least one compound of the formula (II) ##STR2## where the substituents are each as defined in the description part, which are highly useful for dyeing and printing hydrophobic synthetic material.

Abstract: A stabilized, concentrated solution of a diazo dye is prepared by coupling diazotized aniline or substituted aniline with a dialkylaniline in the presence of an aromatic solvent. After removal of the aqueous phase, the solution is stabilized by the addition of a branched chain, primary or secondary, C.sub.3 -C.sub.6 alkyl phenol.

Abstract: The use of linear or cyclic silicon compounds containing at least one chromophoric group of quinone or azo type as direct dyes in dye compositions intended for dyeing human keratin fibres and in particular the hair. The invention also relates to novel silicon compounds and dye compositions containing them, as well as to the corresponding direct dyeing process.

Abstract: The present invention describes a process for dyeing or printing fiber material by the pigment dyeing or pigment printing process, which comprises applying to the fiber material, and subsequently fixing, a dyeing liquor or a print paste comprising at least one dye of the formulaD--(X).sub.n (1)in whichD is a radical of an insoluble organic dye of the phthalocyanine, perinone, indigoid, thioindigoid, dioxazine, diketopyrrolopyrrole, isoindolinone, perylene, quinacridone, metal complex, monoazo, disazo, trisazo or anthraquinone series, X is a hydrophilic polar radical, and n is 1, 2 or 3, and at least one pigment dye binder, and also, if desired, further auxiliaries.

Abstract: A monoazo dye of the formula: ##STR1## wherein: R.sup.1 represents --C.sub.3 H.sub.6 CN, --C.sub.2 H.sub.4 Cl, --C.sub.3 H.sub.6 Cl, --C.sub.2 H.sub.4 OCOCH.sub.3 or --C.sub.2 H.sub.4 OCOCH.sub.2 Cl;R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 each independently represent a C.sub.1-4 -alkyl group; andR.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 each independently represent H, F, Cl, Br, I, --SO.sub.2 F, or an organic moiety selected from the group consisting of C.sub.1-6 alkyl, C.sub.1-6 alkoxy, C.sub.1-4 alkanoylamino, --NHSO.sub.2 alkyl, --NHCOC.sub.1-4 alkyl and -Ophenyl moieties, each organic moiety being unsubstituted or substituted by at least one nonionic substituent.