A Microscale Synthesis of Mauve Scaccia, Rhonda L.; Coughlin, David; Ball, David W. J. Chem. Educ.1998 75 769 Abstract.
doi.org
dx.doi.org
O. Meth-Cohn, M. Smith, "What did W. H. Perkin actually make when he oxidised aniline to obtain mauveine?", J. Chem. Soc. Perkin 1, 1994, 5-7. DOI: 10.1039/P19940000005. This reference is not Open Access.