Patent GB-904800-A (GB)
Title: Azo triazole dyestuffs
IPC: C09B43/12
Filed: 1960-01-14
Abstract: The invention comprises dyes which, in the free acid form, are of formula <FORM:0904800/IV (b)/1> where R is the residue of an aromatic or heterocyclic diazo compound, R1 stands for two aromatic nuclei linked by an azo bridge or for an aromatic nucleus bearing the azo bridge and Y in p-position to each other, Y is -N=N-, -NHCONH-, -HNOCCH= CHCONH-, 2,4-triazinyl-(1,3,5)-amino, a triazole ring or a terephthaloylamino radical R2 is the residue of an aromatic or heterocyclic compound and X is H or SO3H; and their metal complexes. The dyes may be made by coupling 2,5-diaminonaphthalene-4,8-di- or -8-monosulphonic acid with an aromatic or heterocyclic diazo compound in o-position to the 5-positioned amino group, triazolising the dye obtained, diazotising and coupling with an amino aromatic compound in p-position to the amino group, converting the end positioned amino group into one of the above bridge members by either further diazotising, in the dyestuff obtained, the end-positioned amino group and coupling with an azo component in o-position to a hydroxyl group or with an aromatic amine p to the amino group, further diazotising and coupling with an aromatic amine o to the amino group and triazolising, or with an azo component in o-position to an amino group and then triazolising or by acylating the amino group, in the presence of a second amino compound, with phosgene, cyanuric chloride, fumaric acid dichloride or terephthalic acid dichloride. The dyes may also be made by alternative processes in which 2-acylamino-5-naphthylamine sulphonic acids are used as starting materials, a subsequent saponification being required, or by a change in the order of the steps of the processes, e.g. triazole formation at R may be delayed until a later stage.  Metallisation may also be effected at any convenient stage and on the fibre.  Representative of indicated diazo components for the first coupling are aniline, aniline carboxylic acids, naphthylamine sulphonic acids, 4-aminoazobenzene-41-sulphonic acid and dehydrothiotoluidine disulphonic acid and examples of indicated second coupling components are 3-methyl-aniline, methoxyanilines, 2-aminobenzoic acid and 2-bromo-1-naphthylamine-6-sulphonic acid.  R2 may be a coloured or colourless radical.  Indicated components which couple with a hydroxy group o to the azo group are, for example, 4-methylphenol, p-hydroxybenzene methane sulphonic acid, 2-naphthol-3,6-disulphonic acid, 1-phenyl-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone and 1-chloro-2-amino-5-benzenesulphonylnaphthol-7-sulphonic acid --> 2-naphthol-3,6-disulphonic acid (saponified).  Metallising groups, when present in R1, are indicated as OH, COOH, lower alkoxy, Cl or SO3H.  Nickel, iron, manganese chromium, cobalt, and copper are specified metals.  o-Hydroxyazo dyes may be metallised by an oxidising process.  The metallising processes of Specifications 660,447, 721,495 and 790,386 may be used. Representative of coupling components used to provide Y as a triazole group are 2-naphthylamine-3-carboxylic and -5,7-disulphonic acids.  The metal-containing dyes may be demetallised.  When R and R2 contain groups which may be further reacted, e.g. nitro groups which may be combined with nitro groups of a second component to yield azo or azoxy groups on reduction, or amino groups, which may be acylated, such reactions may occur as an intermediate or final step.  The dyes colour vegetable fibres, especially cotton and viscose.  Examples are provided of the preparation of mono-, dis-and tetrazo dyes, and their metal complexes, and of the use of the dyes and their complexes to colour cotton in yellow, green, grey and brown shades.