xanthene

chemical compound

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major reference

  • Examples of anthraquinone pigments.
    In dye: Xanthene and related dyes

    In 1871 the German chemist Adolph von Baeyer discovered a new dye class closely related to the triphenylmethane series and also without natural counterparts. Heating phthalic anhydride with resorcinol (1,3-dihydroxybenzene) produced a yellow compound he named fluorescein,

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dye structure and colour

  • Examples of anthraquinone pigments.
    In dye: Dye structure and colour

    …a different chromophore, include azobenzene, xanthene, and triphenylmethane. Alizarin contains the anthraquinone chromophore. These four dyes were commercial products in the late 1800s.

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