C.I. vat blue 4, carbon paper blue, blue O, carbanthrene blue 2R, fenan blue RSN, graphtol blue RL, medium blue, monolite fast blue 3R, indanthrene, indanthrone, pigment blue 60, C.I. 69800
Indanthrone blue, also called indanthrene, is an organic compound with the formula Page Module:Chem2/styles.css has no content.(C14H6O2NH)2. It is a dark blue solid that is a common dye as well as a precursor to other dyes.[1]
Procedure for producing indanthrone from 2-aminoanthraquinone.
By dimerization of 2-aminoanthraquinone]] (1) under strongly alkaline conditions at 220-235 °C, the intermediate 3 is obtained in two steps, which cyclizes intramolecularly and is oxidized to indanthrone 5.[2]
Owing to intermolecular hydrogen bonding, indanthrone is insoluble. It can be modified by installing tert-butyloxycarbonyl groups in place of the N-H groups to give an organic-soluble "latent pigment." Processing of such derivatives has affording crystals of the parent pigment.[3]
Applications
Indanthrone is utilized as a blue pigment (C.I. Pigment Blue 60), primarily in the process of vat dyeing, often referred to as C.I. Vat Blue 4.[4] Indanthrone is a vat dye, synthesized to provide highest color fastness for the dyeing and printing of predominantly cellulose-based textile fibers. Fabrics dyed with indanthrene fulfill the highest standards and exhibit exceptional wash fastness, boil fastness, light fastness, weather fastness and chlorine fastness.
Indanthrone blue was the first example of the brand "Indanthren" (an acronym for Indigo from anthracene) introduced by BASF in 1901.[7][8][9] One result is that even now, in Japan vat dyes are commonly described as threne dyes (スレン染料), derived from the Japanese transliteration of the brand.[10][11]
Signifigance of Indigo Pure BASF in Indanthrene Blue
The color and vat dye that came before Indanthrene Blue was Indigo Pure BASF. This synthesis consisted of Phenylglycocoll acid mixed and fused with Caustic soda which transforms into an alkaline solution. When this Alkaline solution makes contact with oxygen, the color Indigo precipitates/appears. This process would be replicated in various ways to create Indanthrene blue and its derivatives. Indigo Pure BASF contributed to the research as a cornerstone of its progress as the chemists at BASF took 17 years to research and synthesize this vat dye.[12][13]
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