Indigo is the dye used in blue jeans. Although originally extracted from plants of the type indigofera, it is now almost entirely made artificially.
Indigo is insoluble in water but this disadvantage can be overcome by converting it into the water-soluble colourless leuco-indigo. If cloth soaked in a solution of leuco-indigo is left to dry in the air, the leuco-indigo is converted into the insoluble blue indigo, which is precipitated out onto the fibres of the cloth.

Name three functional groups in indigo.








