Compositions: coating or plastic – Materials or ingredients – Pigment – filler – or aggregate compositions – e.g. – stone,...
Patent
1997-10-24
1999-09-28
Bell, Mark L.
Compositions: coating or plastic
Materials or ingredients
Pigment, filler, or aggregate compositions, e.g., stone,...
106493, 534575, 534747, 534887, C09B 2700
Patent
active
059581280
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a disazo pigment for widespread use as a yellow pigment. In particular, the present invention relates to a disazo pigment manufacturing method which can provide a superior coupling reaction rate during the coupling reaction process in the manufacturing process, and to a disazo pigment which can be used for printing inks such as offset ink, gravure ink and the like to impart superior transparency, brightness, color strength and gloss thereto.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Disazo pigments are yellow pigments widely used in paints, printing inks, plastic colorings and the like. These pigments are obtained by carrying out a coupling reaction using a benzidine derivative tetrazo compound (hereinafter called "tetrazo") and acetoacetanilide referred to as the "coupler". This coupling reaction is carried out by adding a tetrazo aqueous solution to a weak acidic aqueous slurry containing coupler particles distributed therein.
Tetrazo is chemically unstable and can easily undergo decomposition and condensation. This is particularly severe when conditions are alkaline, in which case reduction takes place immediately. When conditions are strongly acidic, a high stability is obtained, but under these conditions the coupling reaction hardly proceeds at all. For this reason, coupling is carried out under weak acidic conditions, wherein the added tetrazo immediately reacts with all the coupler.
On the other hand, when the conditions are alkaline the coupler readily dissolves, but when the coupling reaction is carried out under weak acidic conditions, the solubility of the coupler is prety bad, and this results in most of the coupler remaining in the solid phase.
Accordingly, the coupling reaction is carried out as a solid-liquid reaction in which a tetrazo aqueous solution is added to a weak acidic aqueous slurry containing coupler particles distributed therein. As a result, for some reason or other the coupler does not readily dissolve, thus making it impossible to obtain a high reaction rate, as well as creating conditions that will cause unreacted coupler to remain in the pigment. Further, this unreacted coupler that remains in the pigment will decompose into an aromatic amine, thus creating conditions that will lead to greater problems, which include degradation of the pigment characteristics, such as a lowering of the color strength and the like.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
By improving the coupling reaction rate, it is possible to increase yield and reduce the amount of unreacted compound. This reduction in unreacted compound, which can easily be carried out, not only improves the clearness and color strength of the pigment, but also results in easiness of its removal and a reduction of the aromatic amine produced by the decomposition of such unreacted compound. Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a disazo pigment manufacturing method having a superior coupling reaction rate during the coupling reaction process in order to provide a disazo pigment having superior transparency, brightness, color strength and gloss when used as a coloring agent.
The coupling reaction rate can be improved by well distributing fine particle of coupler into an aqueous slurry. In this connection, there are many techniques for creating a powdered coupler. For example, the coupler can be formed into a fine powder by adding an alkali aqueous solution comprising dissolved coupler to an acidic aqueous solution to reprecipitate the coupler out of solution or by mechanically milling the coupler using a sand mill or the like, with such finely powdered coupler being used to carry out a coupling reaction. Further, the improvement in the coupling reaction rate will be even higher if a surfactant is added to the reaction system when the coupler is being refined or when the coupling reaction is being carried out.
However, research conducted by the present inventors revealed that the improvement to the reactio
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Kikuchi Yoshimi
Sugamo Hitoshi
Bell Mark L.
Hertzog Scott L.
Toyo Ink Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
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