36results about "Styryl-azo dyes" patented technology

An azo compound which is reduced in the copper ion content and exhibits hue and clarity suitable for ink-jet recording and which can give records having excellent light fastness, water resistance, and moisture proofness, and such ozone resistance as to control the fading and the discoloration; and water-base yellow inks containing the same. In particular, the azo compound represented by the formula (12) having a content of impurity copper ions of 100 ppm or below or salts thereof, and inks containing the same

Azo compounds whose free acid forms are represented by the general formula (1) are extremely useful as the dichroic dye to be used in polarizing plates which are excellent in polarization performance and endurance and reduced in the color cross-talk within the visible light region or in polarizers for liquid crystal projectors made by using them; (1) wherein R1 is sulfo, carboxy, or lower alkoxy and R2 is sulfo, carboxy, lower alkyl, or lower alkoxy, with the proviso that a case wherein both R1 and R2 are each sulfo is excepted; R3 to R6 are each independently hydrogen, lower alkyl, or lower alkoxy; and R7 and R8 are each independently hydrogen, amino, hydroxy, sulfo, or carboxy.

Disclosed is an azo compound represented by the formula (1) below, a salt thereof, or a copper complex salt compound thereof.(In the formula, R1 and R2 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a sulfonic acid group, a lower alkyl group or a lower alkoxyl group; R3-R6 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or a lower alkoxyl group; R7 represents a lower alkyl group or a lower alkoxyl group; and n represents 0 or 1.)

Disclosed is an azo compound represented by the formula (1) or (2) or a salt thereof. The azo compound or the salt thereof has an excellent light-polarizing property, and is extremely useful as a dichroic dye for use in a polarizing plate that shows less color leakage in a visible light range or a polarizing plate for a liquid crystal projector comprising the aforementioned polarizing plate. (1) (2) wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a hydroxyl group, a sulfonate group or a carboxyl group; R2 to R5 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group or an acetylamino group; X represents a benzoylamino group which may have a substituent, a phenylamino group which may have a substituent, a phenylazo group which may have a substituent, or a naphthotriazole group which may have a substituent; m represents a numeral number of 1 or 2; and n represents a numeral number of 0 or 1.

The invention discloses a polarizing film, a laminate, and a liquid crystal display device. The polarizing film, satisfying Dl' / P'<=4.3X10-4 which expresses relation between degree of polarization P', and depolarization index Dl' calculated by the equation below is disclosed. X represents a value calculated by the equation below, provided that a polarizing plate having degree of polarization of P, the polarizing film, and a polarizing plate having degree of polarization P, having azimuths of transmission axes of a DEG, b DEG and c DEG, respectively, are stacked in this order as viewed from a flight source, to give brightness written as [a / b / c].

A light absorption anisotropic film, having at least one dichroic dye, in which the light absorption anisotropic film shows a diffraction peak derived from a periodic structure in a direction in a plane of the light absorption anisotropic film in X-ray diffraction measurement and the diffraction peak has a half width of 1.0 Å or less.

A photoelectric conversion device using a semiconductor fine material such as a semiconductor fine particle sensitized with a dye carried thereon, characterized in that the dye is a methine type dye having a specific partial structure, for example, a methine type dye having a specific carboxyl-substituted hetero ring on one side of a methine group and an aromatic residue substituted with a dialkylamino group or an organic metal complex residue on the other side of the methine group, or a methine type dye having a carboxyl-substituted aromatic ring on one side of a methine group and a heteroaromatic ring having a dialkylamino group or an organic metal complex residue on the otherside of the methine group; and a solar cell using the photoelectric conversion element. The photoelectric conversion element exhibits a conversion efficiency comparable or superior to that of a conventionally known photoelectric conversion element sensitized with a methine type dye.

To provide a polarizing element and a polarizing plate which have improved optical characteristics and durability. A polarizing element which is characterized by being formed of a stretched polyvinyl alcohol resin film that adsorbs, as a free acid, at least one dichroic dye that is a compound represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof and which is also characterized in that the polyvinyl alcohol resin has a polymerization degree of from 5,000 to 10,000. (In the formula, A represents a substituted phenyl group or a naphthyl group; each of R1-R6 independently represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a sulfo group or a lower alkoxy group having a sulfo group; X represents an optionally substituted amino group, an optionally substituted benzoylamino group, an optionally substituted phenylamino group, an optionally substituted phenylazo group or an optionally substituted naphthotriazole group; and m represents 0 or 1.)

The present invention provides a synthetic regulator of glutamate receptor function, which regulator is a light-sensitive (photoreactive) regulator. The present invention further provides a light-regulated glutamate receptor that includes a subject synthetic regulator non-covalently associated with the glutamate receptor. Also provided are cells and membranes comprising a subject light-regulated glutamate receptor. The present invention further provides methods of modulating glutamate receptor function, involving use of light. The present invention further provides methods of identifying agents that modulate glutamate receptor function.

A photoelectric conversion device using a semiconductor fine material such as a semiconductor fine particle sensitized with a dye carried thereon, characterized in that the dye is a methine type dye having a specific partial structure, for example, a methine type dye having a specific carboxyl-substituted hetero ring on one side of a methine group and an aromatic residue substituted with a dialkylamino group or an organic metal complex residue on the other side of the methine group, or a methine type dye having a carboxyl-substituted aromatic ring on one side of a methine group and a heteroaromatic ring having a dialkylamino group or an organic metal complex residue on the otherside of the methine group; and a solar cell using the photoelectric conversion element. The photoelectric conversion element exhibits a conversion efficiency comparable or superior to that of a conventionally known photoelectric conversion element sensitized with a methine type dye.

An ink composition having a suitably-adjusted hue and causing no decomposition of dyes during storage is provided. The ink composition contains a compound (a) represented by the following formula (1), an ingredient (c) and moisture-retentive agents, characterized by being from 0.1 mass % to lower than 7.0 mass % in content of the compound represented by the formula (1), 10.0 mass % or lower in content of a moisture-retentive agent having 3 or more hydroxyl groups (b) and lower than 30.0 in molar ratio of the moisture-retentive agent having 3 or more hydroxyl groups to the compound represented by the formula (1):wherein each of Ar1 and Ar2 preferably represents an aromatic heterocyclic group, each of A1 and A2 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, Y represents —OM or —NR1R2, M represents a hydrogen atom or a metal ion and each of R1 and R2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group or the like. The ingredient (c) is at least one compound selected from C.I. Direct Yellow 59, id. 86, id. 132 or the like.

To provide a polarizing element and polarizing plate that exhibit improved optical properties and durability. A polarizing element comprising a film that contains a compound represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof, and a polyvinyl alcohol resin having a degree of polymerization that is 5000-10,000. (In the formula, R1-R4 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, or a lower alkoxyl group, and n represents 1-3.)

The present invention provides a polarizing element and a polarizing plate having improved optical characteristics and durability. A polarizing element, characterized in that it is composed of a polyvinyl alcohol resin film, the polyvinyl alcohol resin film has a degree of polymerization of 5000 to 10000, and the polyvinyl alcohol resin film adsorbs a compound selected from formula (I) , its salt and at least one dichroic dye in its transition metal complex and stretched. (In the formula, A represents a nitro group or an amino group, R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a sulfo group or a lower alkoxy group with a sulfo group, and X represents whether it has Any one of benzamido with or without substituents, phenylamino with or without substituents, phenylazo with or without substituents, or naphthotriazolyl with or without substituents, the The substituent is lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, sulfo, amino or substituted amino.)

The invention provides a kind of preparation method of azo oxide and azo-stilbene dyes, which uses 4-nitrotoluene-2-sulfonic acid as raw material, water as reaction solvent, in the presence of tetramethylammonium hydroxide, The dye Direct Yellow 11 can be obtained through condensation reaction, and then the dye Direct Orange 15 can be obtained through reduction. The present invention does not need to be filtered, has simple process steps and strong operability, and prepares a concentrated aqueous solution of the dye that can be stored stably and basically does not contain organic solvents and inorganic salts. It is suitable for industrial production and solves the problems of dye production in the prior art. Problems during storage and use.