Red organic pigments with silica gel as core were prepared by deriving the surface silanols of the silica gel to structure similar to azo dyestuff, such as Sudan I (1-phenylazo-2-naphthol). The preparation method was as follows : The surface silanols of silica gel were esterified with aromatic alcohols or phenol (_??_-(CH
2)
n-OH;n=0, 1, 2, 3). The phenyl group introduced onto silica gel in this manner was nitrated, reduced, diazotized and coupled with 2-naphthol (as shown in Fig. 4).
As a result, the produced samples had approximately the same color as Sudan I. The color became paler, when the methylene chain of the alcohol used for esterification was shorter. The sample with phenol had the most pale color. We presumed that the color was corresponding to the quantity of the surface group, which was synthesized on silica gel. The sample prepared with alcohol of longer methylene chain did not hydrolyze comparatively.
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