Fiber-reactive unsymmetrical 1:2 chromium complex azo dyes

Abstract

Chromium complex dyes which, in the form of the free acid, have the formula ##STR1## wherein Z is hydrogen, nitro, chlorine, or an arylazo group, Q is a nitrogen atom or the CH-- group, A is the radical of a coupling component which couples in the ortho-position to the oxygen atom if Q is a nitrogen atom, or is the radical of an o-hydroaldehyde if Q is the CH-- group, D is a sulfophenyl radical which can be substituted by nitro or chlorine, or a sulfonaphthyl radical which can be substituted by nitro and is bonded to the azo group in the orthoposition to the oxygen atom, and R is a reactive group. These dyes are obtained by chroming the corresponding o,o'-dihydroxyazo compounds or o,o'-dihydroxyazomethine compounds, the reactive radical R being introduced by acylation before or after the chroming. They are suitable for dyeing natural or synthetic polyamide material.

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