Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / The principal purpose of this investigation was to devise a means whereby natural or synthetic fibers might be dyed by the formation of ether, ester, or amide linkages. By so doing, the dyeing process would result in a very fast coloration unaffected by washing.
For the purposes of preparing a colored ether of natural fibers, reactions wit h cellulose were tried with p-bromonitrosobenzene . It was hoped that this would give a p-nitrosophenyl ether of cellulose. This compound might itself be colored; but more important, it could be coupled with a variety of amines to give azo compounds. The compound p- br omonitrosobenzene, was chosen as the reagent for accomplishing this etherification, because it was the simplest, readily available nitrosocompound with a halogen group that could react fairly easily with cellulose.
Attempts to prepare such a cellulose ether failed. The use of soda cellulose, or cellulose dissolved in benzyltrimethylammonium hydroxide, in a manner analogous to normal cellulose etherification reactions, resulted in failures. Rather than reacting with the cellulose, the nitroso compound decomposed rapidly to give p,p 1-dlbromoazoxybenzene in high yield. [TRUNCATED]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/10779 |
| Date | January 1951 |
| Creators | Gentry, Willard Max |
| Publisher | Boston University |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | Based on investigation of the BU Libraries' staff, this work is free of known copyright restrictions. |
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