Mass-dyeing of polyester with anthraquinone and benzanthrone dyes

Abstract

Disclosed is mass-dyed linear, saturated, aromatic polyester comprising, as dyestuff, a compound or mixture of compounds selected from those of formulae I and II, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a radical of formula ##STR2## R.sub.2 is hydrogen or a radical of formula ##STR3## of R.sub.3 and R.sub.3 ', both are hydrogen, or one is hydrogen and the other chlorine or bromine, or both are chlorine or bromine, R.sub.5 is hydrogen, chlorine, bromine or methyl, R.sub.5 ' is hydrogen, chlorine, bromine, nitro or a 4-phenyl, 4-chlorophenyl, 4-bromophenyl or 4-para-nitrophenyl group, R.sub.6 is hydrogen, chlorine or bromine R.sub.6 ' is hydrogen, chlorine, bromine or methyl, and R.sub.7 and R.sub.9 are the same and are chlorine or bromine, With the provisos (i) R.sub.2 is hydrogen when R.sub.1 is a radical (1) or (2) or when R.sub.1 is a radical (3), in which R.sub.5 is phenyl or chloro-, bromo- or nitro-phenyl, (ii) R.sub.3 and R.sub.3 ' are both hydrogen when R.sub.1 is a radical (1), (3) or (4), (iii) R.sub.5 is hydrogen when R.sub.5 ' is phenyl or chloro- , bromo- or nitro-phenyl, and (iv) R.sub.5 and R.sub.5 ' are both hydrogen only when R.sub.2 is other than hydrogen.

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