A great deal of single papers on color chemistry have been published over the
years. Their subjects are preferably theoretical or physico-chemical considerations
of dye chemistry. On the other hand, the knowledge of dye chemistry from
a technical point of view is almost entirely concentrated in the chemical industry.
Apart from lectures given at the very few conferences on color chemistry, the current
state of industrial dye chemistry can only be extracted from the patent literature.
There is little else being published on dyes, especially on industrial dyes and
their applications.
This prompted us to write a reference book comprising the principal classes of
industrially produced dyes with their syntheses, properties and main applications as
well as a toxicological, ecological and legal survey of dyes.
Since the field of dyes has grown so big in recent decades, it cannot be comprehensively
covered by one or only a few persons. The various authors are renowned
experts in their different fields of dye chemistry, which guarantees most competent
contributions to this book.

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