D. Muralidharan et Vss. Rao, SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF ANIONIC LEATHER DYES AS ION-PAIRS, Journal of the Society of Leather Technologists and Chemists, 79(4), 1995, pp. 119-122
Extraction of dyes from leather followed by spectrophotometric analysi
s is of technical and commercial importance. During the extraction pro
cess, vegetable tannins are co-extracted with the dyes and interfere d
uring the subsequent spectrophotometric estimation of dyes. The interf
erences caused by vegetable tannins are eliminated by separating the a
nionic leather dyes as ion-pairs with tetra n-butylammoniumchloride in
chloroform from the dye-tannin mixtures in 50% aqueous dimethylformam
ide prior to analysis.