The Quinoline Yellow SS prepared by condensation of phthalic anhydride with quinaldine is bright greenish yellow in hue, and used as the spirit soluble dye, but poor in the resistance to the light.
Recently, it was reported that the quinophthalones obtained from substituted and unsubstituted quinaldines and tetrahalogenophthalic anhydrides were bright yellow in shade, excellent in the resistance to the light, but not good enough in the resistance to the aromatic solvents.
Therefore, the authors tried to improve the resistance to the organic solvents by dimerization of quinophthalone, namely the authors synthesized several new bisquinophthalones by condensation of phthalic anhydride or tetrahalogenophthalic anhydrides with 6, 6'-biquinaldines which were obtained from benzidines and crotonaldehyde in the Doebner-Miller synthesis. The new twelve bisquinophthalone pigments thus prepared are shown by the following formula;
Z-Z-Z-Z-OC-OC-HC-N-X-Y-X-Y-N-CH-OC-OC-Z-Z-Z-Z
wherein X represents hydrogen atom or chlorine atom, Y represents hydrogen atom, chlorine atom or methylgroup, and Z represents hydrogen atom, chlorine atom or bromine atom.
The authors tested the properties of those pigments, and obtained such a result that the pigments prepared from 6, 6'-biquinaldines and phthalic anbydride were bright yellow in hue, but poor in the resistance to the light and the organic solvents of high boiling point.
The polyhalogenobisquinophthalones obtained from 6, 6'-biquinaldines and tetrahalogenophthalic anhydrides gave bright yellow shade, excellent resistance to light and organic solvents, except for the pigment prepared from 5, 5', 8, 8'-tetrachlor6, 6'-biquinaldine and tetrahalogenophthalic anhydride.
The authors found that the effect of dimerization of quinophthalone was remarkable to improve the resistance to the organic solvents.
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