Anthraquinone Direct Dyes

Compared to direct azo dyes, the direct anthraquinone dyes have lower tinctorial strengths and are therefore far less economical to use. They have lost most of their importance. Only a few special green dyes have retained their importance. Direct green cotton dyes can be produced by coupling a blue bromamine acid dye and a yellow azo dye via ureido or diaminotriazine bridges. 

---

The application range designated by this generic name in the Colour Index incorporates those acid, direct and mordant dyes with substantivity for leather and satisfactory fastness on that substrate [55]. It is a commercially important sector, the number of products listed being exceeded only by the complete acid or direct dye ranges. As expected from the sources of this selection, about 85% of leather dyes are azo compounds (35% disazo, 30% monoazo, 20% metal-complex monoazo) and the remainder are mainly yellow to orange stilbene dyes and anthraquinone or triarylmethane types in the violet to green sectors. 

Acid, basic, and direct dyes are all ionic in nature. Acid dyes contain free acid groups which are ionized in the aqueous application medium (dyebath). They generally used to dye polyamine, wool, or silk and are primarily azo, anthraquinone, or triarylmethane structures. 

Reactive Dyes. These dyes form a covalent bond with the fiber, usually cotton, although they are used to a small extent on wool and nylon. This class of dyes, first introduced commercially in 1956 by ICI, made it possible to achieve extremely high washfastness properties by relatively simple dyeing methods. A marked advantage of reactive dyes over direct dyes is that their chemical structures are much simpler, their absorption spectra show narrower absorption bands, and the dyeings are brighter. The principal chemical classes of reactive dyes are azo (including metallized azo), triphendioxazine, phthalocyanine, formazan, and anthraquinone (see Section 3.1). 

In 1901, Rend Bohn, head of the BASF alizarin laboratory, applied the indigo reaction conditions to 2-aminoanthraquinone (46) and discovered a blue colorant that he named indanthrone, from indigo and anthraquinone . He then obtained the same product more directly from 46. Later known as indanthrene blue RS (47), it was the first of the anthraquinone vat dyes, more correctly anthraquinonoid vat dyes, also known as indanthrene dyes (Scheme 18). With this innovation, three types of anthraquinone dyes became available mordant (such as alizarin), acid (Robert E. Schmidt, at Bayer, 1894) and vat. 

It would be natural to expect that conditions governing the relationship between structure and affinity found in the direct dyes would also apply to vat dyes. The picture is, however, more confused because not only are many of the molecules non-linear but they are also deficient in groups capable of forming hydrogen bonds. Thomson J.S.D.C., 1936, 52, 247) suggested that the substantivity of the anthraquinone vat dyes depended... 

The term semipermanent defines hair color products that give a coloration lasting through 5-6 shampoos. This system uses so-called direct dyes which penetrate into the cortex but slowly diffuse out again when the hair is washed. The depth of coverage is limited and no lightening of color can take place. Nitro and anthraquinone dyes are used mainly, and azobenzenes less frequently. The color produced by a particular commercial product may result from the combination of many individual dyes, e.g., three yellows, two reds, two... 

Anaerobic bio-reduction of azo dye is a nonspecific and presumably extracellular process and comprises of three different mechanisms by researchers (Fig. 1), including the direct enzymatic reduction, indirect/mediated reduction, and chemical reduction. A direct enzymatic reaction or a mediated/indirect reaction is catalyzed by biologically regenerated enzyme cofactors or other electron carriers. Moreover, azo dye chemical reduction can result from purely chemical reactions with biogenic bulk reductants like sulfide. These azo dye reduction mechanisms have been shown to be greatly accelerated by the addition of many redox-mediating compounds, such as anthraquinone-sulfonate (AQS) and anthraquinone-disulfonate (AQDS) [13-15],... 

A striking feature of disperse dye development in recent decades has been the steady growth in bathochromic azo blue dyes to replace the tinctorially weaker and more costly anthraquinone blues. One approach is represented by heavily nuclei-substituted derivatives of N,N-disubstituted 4-aminoazobenzenes, in which electron donor groups (e.g. 2-acylamino-5-alkoxy) are introduced into the aniline coupler residue and acceptor groups (acetyl, cyano or nitro) into the 2,4,6-positions of the diazo component. A PPP-MO study of the mobility of substituent configurations in such systems demonstrated that coplanarity of the two aryl rings could only be maintained if at least one of the 2,6-substituents was cyano. Thus much commercial research effort was directed towards these more bathochromic o-cyano-substituted dyes. 

Disperse dyes from the monoazo and anthraquinone classes have been implicated in cases of contact dermatitis. Circumstances common to such cases appear to be heavy depths of these dyes on nylon rather than polyester and occurring in articles of clothing that are in direct contact with the skin, often in areas that are likely to become moistened by perspiration. Hosiery, socks, blouses and close-fitting athletic or fashion wear, such as velvet leggings, are representative of the types of garment where this problem has arisen [1]. 

Heavy metals are widely used as catalysts in the manufacture of anthraquinonoid dyes. Mercury is used when sulphonating anthraquinones and copper when reacting arylamines with bromoanthraquinones. Much effort has been devoted to minimising the trace metal content of such colorants and in effluents from dyemaking plants. Metal salts are used as reactants in dye synthesis, particularly in the ranges of premetallised acid, direct or reactive dyes, which usually contain copper, chromium, nickel or cobalt. These structures are described in detail in Chapter 5, where the implications in terms of environmental problems are also discussed. Certain basic dyes and stabilised azoic diazo components (Fast Salts) are marketed in the form of tetrachlorozincate complex salts. The environmental impact of the heavy metal salts used in dye application processes is dealt with in Volume 2. 

Most pigments derived from vat dyes are structurally based on anthraquinone derivatives such as indanthrone, flavanthrone, pyranthrone, or dibromoan-thanthrone. There are other polycyclic pigments which may be used directly in the form in which they are manufactured. This includes derivatives of naphthalene and perylene tetracarboxylic acid, dioxazine (Carbazole Violet), and tetrachloro-thioindigo. Quinacridone pigments, which were first introduced in 1958, and recently DPP pigments have been added to the series. 

Thus, RP-HPLC-MS has been employed for the analysis of sulphonated dyes and intermediates. Dyes included in the investigation were Acid yellow 36, Acid blue 40, Acid violet 7, Direct yellow 28, Direct blue 106, Acid yellow 23, Direct green 28, Direct red 79, Direct blue 78 and some metal complex dyes such as Acid orange 142, Acid red 357, Acid Violet 90, Acid yellow 194 and Acid brown 355. RP-HPLC was realized in an ODS column (150 X 3 mm i.d. particle size 7 /.an). The composition of the mobile phase varied according to the chemical structure of the analytes to be separated. For the majority of cases the mobile phase consisted of methanol-5 mM aqueous ammonium acetate (10 90, v/v). Subsituted anthraquinones were separated in similar mobile phases containing 40 per cent methanol. The flow rate was 1 ml/min for UV and 0.6 ml/min for MS detection, respectively. The chemical structure of dye intermediates investigated in this study and their retention times are compiled in Table 3.28. It was found that the method is suitable for the separation of decomposition products and intermediates of dyes but the separation of the original dye molecules was not adequate in this RP-HPLC system [162],... 

These chromophores have declined significantly in importance as textile dyes bnt have remained of interest becanse of their fluorescent behaviour, as discussed in Chapter 3, section 3.5.1.5. One exception is the triphenodioxazine ring system, which is used to produce valuable blue dyes in the Direct (2.19) and Reactive dye classes (2.20) as well as pigments (see section 2.4.1.7). The dyes from this chromogen have a very high molar absorption coefficient (ca. 80 000) versus typical anthraquinone dyes (ca. 15 000) and have therefore replaced some of the dyes from this latter chromogen in the reactive dyeing of cotton. ... 

Colouring matters which are neither acid nor basic are reduced and oxidised on the cotton itself. The resistance to reduction exhibited by certain azo-colouring matters, especially those formed directly on the fibre, is overcome by addition of very small quantities of suitable colouring matters or other reducing bodies, such as indulin scarlet, alizarin or anthia-quinone, which increase the activity of the hydrosulphite. The use of anthraquinone is preferred because it does not dye cotton, while addition of it in minimal quantity to the hydrosulphite solution and slight acidification with acetic acid yields a reagent (hydrosulphite B X) which causes reduction in every case. 

Dyes for Cotton-Polyester Fabrics. Anthraquinone dyes of medium molecular mass are suitable for direct printing and dyeing of cellulose fibers, especially cot-... 

---