R. Dworczak et al., SYNTHESES WITH NITRILES .96. COLORFORMERS BASED ON PYRAZOLOMALONONITRILES - SYNTHESIS, PROPERTIES AND STRUCTURE - COLOR RELATIONSHIPS, Dyes and pigments, 28(4), 1995, pp. 297-315
One-component colorformers were obtained from 4-dicyanomethylene pyraz
olone derivatives and anilines or tetramethyl-dihydroquinoline in exce
llent yields. They were transformed into dyes of maximum absorption wa
velengths between 527 and 628 nm by thermolysis as well as by photolys
is. Different substituents and donor elements (anilines and quinoline)
showed a remarkable and partially unexpected influence on the dye pro
perties and they wee evaluated using semi-empirical quantum chemical c
alculations (AMl, CNDO/S-CI).