Organic Colourants

Dye chemistry, born in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century, is the root of modern organic chemistry which, in turn, together with inorganic and physical chemistry, has developed to produce today's polymer chemistry, biochemistry and materials science. With the establishment of the dye industry and dye technology, the definition of dyes was narrowed; their study became estranged from the field of the general chemist, and they were abandoned as subjects of basic research. Recently, however, dyes have been re-evaluated. In Japan the concept of the functional dye has been established in information, display, recording and storage, energy conversion, medicine and other fields. The extraction, expansion and utilization of the various functions of dyes have attracted much attention and a new field of colour chemicals has come into being. There are very few convenient data books useful for chemists who wish to participate and contribute to the advance of molecular design or functional applications of dyes - the best known work in the field is geared mainly to profesional dye chemists and it is becoming somewhat outdated.
 
Dye chemistry, born in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century, is the root of modern organic chemistry which, in turn, together with inorganic and physical chemistry, has developed to produce today's polymer chemistry, biochemistry and materials science. With the establishment of the dye industry and dye technology, the definition of dyes was narrowed; their study became estranged from the field of the general chemist, and they were abandoned as subjects of basic research. Recently, however, dyes have been re-evaluated. In Japan the concept of the functional dye has been established in information, display, recording and storage, energy conversion, medicine and other fields. The extraction, expansion and utilization of the various functions of dyes have attracted much attention and a new field of colour chemicals has come into being. There are very few convenient data books useful for chemists who wish to participate and contribute to the advance of molecular design or functional applications of dyes - the best known work in the field is geared mainly to profesional dye chemists and it is becoming somewhat outdated.