and commonly assigned u s pat appln ser no 08 715 451 filed on even date herewith in addition the novel dyes of the invention may be used in the textile industry to impart color to various materials such as nylon and polyester fibers by e g dissolving the dyes in suitable solvents and applying the solutions to the materials by any of many well known techniques the novel dyes of the invention may also be used as the imaging dyes for both inkjet printers and thermal dye transfer imaging materials and the like the invention will now be described further in detail with respect to specific preferred embodiments by way of examples it being understood that these are intended to be illustrative only and the invention is not limited to the materials procedures process parameters conditions amounts etc recited therein all parts and percentages recited are by weight unless otherwise stated compound a anthranilonitrile 450 g 3 81 mol aldrich was dissolved in dry pyridine 500 ml and dry triethylamine tea 200 ml in a flask hydrogen sulfide g was slowly bubbled into the reaction solution over a 3 hour h period which was then stirred overnight o n at room temperature rt the reaction flask was purged under air for 3 to 4 h the reaction solution was concentrated 2 3 h 60 u00b0 c transferred to a new flask quenched into warm 45 u00b0 c tap h 2 o and stirred o n at rt the crystals were vacuum filtered rinsed with water pressed dry and air dried o n the air dried weight of compound b thiobenzamide was 464 7 g 81 9 yield mass spectroscopy by fab fast atom bombardment techniques gave the expected molecular ion m e.