Chromogenic dye molecules

Stimuli-Driven Assembly of Chromogenic Dye Molecules a Versatile Approach for the Design of Responsive Polymers... 

The presence of residual unbound transition-metal ions on a dyed substrate is a potential health hazard. Various eco standards quote maximum permissible residual metal levels. These values are a measure of the amount of free metal ions extracted by a perspiration solution [53]. Histidine (5.67) is an essential amino acid that is naturally present as a component of perspiration. It is recognised to play a part in the desorption of metal-complex dyes in perspiration fastness problems and in the fading of such chromogens by the combined effects of perspiration and sunlight. The absorption of histidine by cellophane film from aqueous solution was measured as a function of time of immersion at various pH values. On addition of histidine to an aqueous solution of a copper-complex azo reactive dye, copper-histidine coordination bonds were formed and the stability constants of the species present were determined [54]. Variations of absorption spectra with pH that accompanied coordination of histidine with copper-complex azo dyes in solution were attributable to replacement of the dihydroxyazo dye molecule by the histidine ligand [55]. 

Selecting a sulphonated dye molecule containing an amino group as the nucleophile leads directly to a dichlorotriazine dye. In certain cases a suitable intermediate may be condensed with cyanuric chloride and then the chromogenic grouping is synthesised from this reaction product. Both of these routes are illustrated in a simple way for Cl Reactive Red 1 (7.1) in Scheme 7.7. In these dyes the electronic effects responsible for the lability of the chloro substituents are muted by feedback of electrons from the electron-donating imino bridging... 

Amphiphilic dye molecules such as sulfonated chromogens can be used in place of PVA iodine for the preparation of thin polarizing films [60]. These molecules are usually water soluble and at a wide range of concentrations, temperatures, and pH values they self-assemble and stack up to form hexagonal complexes. This is usually referred to as the lyotropic LC phase [1]. It can be orientated, by mechanical shear stress, so that the lyotropic liquid crystal (LLC) is orientated parallel to the shear flow direction (Figure 4.21). 

Reactive dyes are synthesized by (/) condensation of an amine function in the chromogen molecule with a reactive group, eg. 

The apphcation of a high electric field across a thin conjugated polymer film has shown the materials to be electroluminescent (216—218). Until recentiy the development of electroluminescent displays has been confined to the use of inorganic semiconductors and a limited number of small molecule dyes as the emitter materials. Expansion to the broad array of conjugated polymers available gives advantages in control of emission frequency (color) and facihty in device fabrication as a result of the ease of processibiUty of soluble polymers (see Chromogenic materials,electrochromic). 

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