Glycoazodyes

Glycoazodyes (or GADs) are a family of "naturalised" synthetic dyes, so called because they are the conjugation of common commercial azo dyes with sugar through a "linker".^[1] This principle is summarised in the scheme below.

^ Bartalucci, Giuditta; Bianchini, Roberto; Catelani, Giorgio; D'Andrea, Felicia; Guazzelli, Lorenzo (February 2007). "Naturalised Dyes: A Simple Straightforward Synthetic Route to a New Class of Dyes – Glycoazodyes (GADs)". European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2007 (4): 588–595. doi:10.1002/ejoc.200600686. ISSN 1434-193X.

[:0-1] Bartalucci, Giuditta; Bianchini, Roberto; Catelani, Giorgio; D'Andrea, Felicia; Guazzelli, Lorenzo (February 2007). "Naturalised Dyes: A Simple Straightforward Synthetic Route to a New Class of Dyes – Glycoazodyes (GADs)". European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2007 (4): 588–595. doi:10.1002/ejoc.200600686. ISSN 1434-193X.

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