Aniline
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Aniline is an organic compound with the formula C6H5NH2. Consisting of a phenyl group attached to an amino group, aniline is the simplest aromatic amine. It is an industrially significant commodity ch
Sample of 2,6-diisopropylaniline, a colorless liquid when pure, illustrating the tendency of anilines to air-oxidize to dark-colored products.
Aniline can react with bromine even in room temperatures in water. Acetyl chloride is added to prevent tribromination.
Cake of indigo dye, which is prepared from aniline.
William Henry Perkin
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Sir William Henry Perkin was an English chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first commercial synthetic organic dye, mauveine, made from aniline. Though he failed
Aniline
…that these were all the same substance, known thereafter as phenylamine or aniline. In 1856, while trying to synthesise quinine, von Hofmann's student William Henry Perkin discovered mauveine. Mauveine quickly became a commercial dye. Other synthetic dyes followed, such as fuchsin, safranin, and induline. At the time of…
Perkin in 1906
Professor Charles Rees wearing a bow tie dyed with an original sample of mauveine while holding a Royal Society of Chemistry journal named after Perkin
The craze for aniline dyes, satirised in this George du Maurier cartoon
Section of Coal Tar Colour Works at Greenford