Pigment Yellow 13 is an organic compound and an azo compound.
It is a widely used yellow pigment.
It is also classified as a diarylide pigment, being derived from 3,3'-dichlorobenzidine.
It is closely related to Pigment Yellow 12, wherein the two xylyl groups are replaced by phenyl and to Pigment Yellow 14 where the xylyl groups are replaced by o-tolyl.
[2] It is often depicted as an azo (-N=N-) structure, but according to X-ray crystallography closely related compounds exist as the keto-hydrazide tautomers.