Indigo and Bromo Indigo the Plant and Animal Kingdoms

Volume 1 - Issue 4

Fathi Habashi*

Received: February 13, 2018;   Published: February 19, 2018

DOI: 10.32474/LTTFD.2018.01.000119

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Abstract

Natural indigo was used since ancient times for dyeing textiles a blue color. Its structure became later known and has been synthesized by Adolf von Baeyer in 1880 in Germany who got the Nobel Prize in 1905. Bromo-indigo is a purple dye which was also used since ancient times by the Phoenicians in present day Lebanon and known as Tyrian purple obtained from the snails of Murex branderis in the Mediterranean Sea. Its structure became known in 1895 by Paul Friedlander an assistant to Baeyer. Incidentally bromine was discovered in France in 1826 by Antoine Balard.

Keywords: Adolf von Baeyer; Paul Friedlander; Murex brandaris; Tyrian purple

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