Electrostatographic toner containing magenta pigment

• US 5,283,147 A
• Filed: 05/27/1992
• Issued: 02/01/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Johnston, Brian H., Whitesides, Thomas H.
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ashton, Rosemary
• Application Number:
  US07/888,698
• Time in Patent Office: 615 Days
• Field of Search: 430/106, 430/109, 430/45, 430/111, 430/241, 430/225, 546/5, 546/6, 546/7
• US Class Current: 430/108.23
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 9/091 Azo dyes
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 9/09783 Organo-metallic compounds

Abstract

Electrostatographic toner materials containing a magenta pigment which is a metal coordination complex of a substituted 6-arylazo-3-pyridinol compound are disclosed. These pigments are formulated with fusible polymeric binders to provide a toner which exhibits excellent triboelectric properties and improved magenta color and hue when utilized in the electrostatographic process to produce colored electrophotographic images.

Claims

1. A dry, particulate electrostatographic toner composition comprising a binder polymer having mixed therewith a magenta pigment which is a coordination complex of a divalent or trivalent metal ion and a 6-arylazo-3-pyridinol compound having the structure:

##STR3## wherein R is selected from the group consisting of OH;

NH₂ ; and

an alkyl group containing from 1 to about 6 carbon atoms;

R¹ is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen;

an alkyl group having 1 to about 6 carbon atoms;

acyl;

aryl;

aralkyl;

alkylsulfonyl;

amino;

alkoxy;

halogen;

morpholino;

phenylsulfamoyl;

sulfonamido;

sulfamoyl;

carboxy and sulfo; and

hydrolyzable precursors thereof; and

R² is a complex-forming substituent selected from the group consisting of COOH;

a hydrolyzable ester group of the formula COOR³ wherein R³ is an alkyl group having from 1 to about 8 carbon atoms or an aryl group having 6 to about 10 carbon atoms; and

sulfamoyl having the formula SO₂ NHR⁴ wherein R⁴ is hydrogen, alkyl having 1 to about 8 carbon atoms, aryl having 6 to about 10 carbon atoms or carbacyl having 1 to about 8 carbon atoms;

said toner having an average particle size within the range of from about 0.1 to about 100 microns.

2. The toner composition of claim 1 wherein R¹ is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen;

an alkyl group having 1 to about 6 carbon atoms;

an alkoxy group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms;

Cl;

Br;

SO₂ C₆ H₅ ;

SO₂ NHC₆ H₅ ;

SO₂ NH₂ ; and

SO₂ C₆ H₄ X wherein X is C₁ to C₆ alkyl, SO₂ CH₃, OH, SO₂ NH₂ or SO₂ NHCH(CH₃)₂.

3. The toner composition of claim 2 wherein R¹ is positioned at the 4, 5 or 6 ring position and is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, chloro or C₁ to C₆ alkyl.

4. The toner composition of claim 3 wherein R¹ is 4-chloro.

5. The toner composition of claim 1 wherein R² is COOH.

6. The toner composition of claim 1 wherein R is CH₃.

7. The toner composition of claim 1 wherein said metal ion is selected from the group consisting of zinc II, nickel II, copper II, cobalt II, cobalt III, platinum II and palladium II.

8. The toner composition of claim 7 wherein said metal ion is divalent nickel.

9. The toner composition of claim 1 wherein said coordination complex has the structure:

##STR4## wherein R and R¹ are as set forth, M is a divalent or trivalent coordinate metal ion and L is a ligand.

10. The toner composition of claim 9 wherein R¹ is positioned at the 4, 5 or 6 ring position and is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, chloro or C₁ to C₆ alkyl.

11. The toner composition of claim 10 wherein R¹ is 4-chloro.

12. The toner composition of claim 9 wherein R is CH₃.

13. The toner composition of claim 9 wherein M is selected from the group consisting of zinc II, nickel II, copper II, cobalt II, cobalt III, platinum II and palladium II.

14. The toner composition of claim 12 wherein M is divalent nickel.

15. The toner composition of claim 9 wherein L is selected from the group consisting of H₂ O, Cl, ammonia, acetate, pyridine and a second identical azo dye molecule.

16. The toner composition of claim 15 wherein L is H₂ O or ammonia.

17. The toner composition of claim 9 wherein R is CH₃, R¹ is 4-chloro and M is divalent nickel.

18. The toner composition of claim 1 containing from about 2 to about 20% by weight of said pigment.

19. The toner composition of claim 18 wherein said binder polymer is a copolymer of styrene with up to 60% by weight of one or more lower alkyl acrylates or methacrylates.

20. The toner composition of claim 18 where said toner has an average particle size within the range of about 2 to about 20 microns.

21. A developer composition comprising a mixture of carrier particles and from about 1 to about 20% by weight of the toner composition of claim 1.