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Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) is the first melt-processable, renewable, sustainable and biodegradable natural-based synthetic fibre. It has a broad range of uses and combines ecological advantages with outstanding performance in textiles. PLA fibre, as an aliphatic polyester, can be dyed with disperse dyes. Apart from the limited number of commercial disperse dyes, disperse dye exhaustion on PLA is generally lower than that on poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET). In this study, new heterocyclic disazo disperse dyes, substituted with methyl, nitro and chloro groups at their ortho-, metaand para-positions, synthesised in our previous study, were applied to PLA and PET fibres to examine their dyeing performance, and colour fastness and dye exhaustion properties. Different shades of yellow, orange, reddish brown and brown were obtained. Most of the synthesised novel heterocyclic disazo disperse dyes exhibited good build-up properties with high K/S levels on both fibres. Para-bonding substituent provided higher K/S values than meta-and ortho-positions for-NO 2 and-Cl substituents for both fibres. Overall, the most synthesised novel heterocyclic disazo disperse dyes in this study exhibited good build-up properties with high K/S, exhaustion and wet fastness levels on both PLA and PET fibres. How to cite this article: Avinc O, Bakan E, Demirçalı A, Gedik G, Karcı F. Dyeing of poly(lactic acid) fibres with synthesised novel heterocyclic disazo disperse dyes.

In this study, 8 novel pyrazole disperse dyes which were synthesized in our previous work [1] were applied to polyethylene terephthalate (PET), poly (lactic acid) (PLA) and polyamide 6.6 (PA 6.6) fiber fabrics and their colorimetric and fastness properties were evaluated. The measured a*, b* and hue angle (ho) values of all dyed fabrics exhibited yellow, orange and red colour shades. Quite high colour strength values (K/S) were measured particularly for dyes containing substitute groups; p-OCH3 and o-OCH3. Shade changes of all fabrics after standard washing and sublimation tests were in the commercially adequate range. All dyed PET, PLA and PA 6.6 fabrics exhibited commercially acceptable fastness staining performances with very good to excellent levels. Synthesized novel disperse dyestuffs led to moderate to high light fastness levels particularly in the case of PLA and PET fabrics.