The completely revised and expanded third edition of this classic text provides a thorough treatment of the synthesis, properties, and industrial applications of organic dyes and pigments. It addresses new areas of investigation, including calculation of spectra, computer modeling of colorants, advances in synthetic polyenes, functional colorants, and more. Also included in Color Chemistry is the first review of the limited number of published investigations of black colorants, as well as discussions of the production and application of dyes, including their ecological impact.

From the Preface: “...Although dyeing techniques are much older than chemistry itself, the factors that govern such processes could not be explained for centuries. Even today, only a few chemists have realized that dyeing of textiles and other materials represents by far the largest technical application of supramolecular chemistry, a term coined by J.M. Lehn in 1988. Supramolecular chemistry means the chemistry beyond beyond covalent bonds involving weak intermolecular interactions (such as van der Waals, dipole/induced dipole, dipole/dipole, or P/P interactions, as well as H-bonds and Coulomb forces, etc.)...”

Target Audience: Dye chemists, organic chemists, industrial chemists, physicochemists, paints and coatings formulators and product managers, and other professionals and upper level students concerned with the chemistry of colorants.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Color of Organic Compounds

Polyene and Polymethine Dyes

Di- and Triarylmethine Dyes and their Aza Analogs

Aza[18]annulenes

Nitro and Nitroso Dyes

Azo Dyes and Pigments

Carbonyl Dyes and Pigments

Sulfur Dyes

Fluorescent Brighteners

Application of Dyes

Application of Organic Pigments

Photo-, Thermo-, and Electrochemical Reactions of Colorants

Colorants for Imaging and Data-Recording Systems

Dyes in Biochemistry, Biology, Medicine, and Analysical Chemistry

Analysis, Ecology, and Toxicology of Colorants

Index