4-Chloro-1-naphthol



=4-Chloro-1-naphthol= 4-Chloro-1-naphthol is a simple cyan Dye coupler. The molecule is similar but in no way identical to Kodak's more complex proprietary Cyan K-14 Coupler.

It can be used in place of the K14 Cyan coupler, however it is not widley known how stable the dye is for archival purposes yet, nor what adjustments have to be made (if any) to development times, bath temperatures, etc in K-14 processing.

Its main uses outside photography are for enzyme-linked detection procedures such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_blotting Western Blotting. ]