All William Perkin articles

Research

Electrochemical ‘game-changer’ could make aniline production greener

2022-08-05T08:30:00Z

Sustainable production of important feedstock for dyes, drugs and herbicides is scalable

Podcast

Aniline

2019-04-12T09:30:00Z

How an early synthetic dye chemical came to play a role in a mysterious disease outbreak in 1980s Spain

Research

Dye detective work uncovers Perkin’s chemistry secrets

2017-01-03T15:41:00Z

The pioneering Victorian chemist didn’t reveal all in his patent on the first synthetic purple dye

Podcast

Mauveine

2016-03-30T00:00:00Z

Michael Freemantle with a colourful account of the birth of synthetic organic chemistry

Podcast

Dibromoindigo

2014-04-02T00:00:00Z

Purple was once a colour only royalty could afford to wear. Hayley Birch investigates tyrian purple, or dibromoindigo, the original purple dye