High‐performance liquid chromatography of blue and purple indigoid natural dyes

Four major components of blue and purple natural dyes of the Indigoid class were separated and spectrally characterised by high‐performance liquid chromatography: indigotin, indirubin, 6‐monobromoindigotin and 6,6′‐dibromoindigotin. It has been shown for the first time that a dyeing with a hypobr…