Light-sensitive photographic element comprising a cyan image dye-providing compound

Claim 1

A light-sensitive photographic element comprising a support and at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer coated thereon and having associated therewith a cyan image dye-providing compound represented by formula [I] or [II]: ##STR53## wherein Car represents a carrier moiety having an organic ballast group containing sufficient carbon atoms to render the compound nondiffusible during processing in an alkaline processing composition, which can be oxidized under alkaline conditions to release a diffusible dye or a precursor thereof from said compound; R 1 and R 2 , which may be the same or different, independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms (provided that the total sum of carbon atoms in R 1 and R 2 does not exceed 4); X represents a hydroxyl group or a salt thereof or a group which can be converted into a hydroxyl group by hydrolysis and having the following formulae: ##STR54## in which R 3 represents an alkyl or haloalkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms or a phenyl group which may be substituted; Y 1 represents ##STR55## group in which R 4 and R 5 may be the same or different and independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms (provided that the total sum of carbon atoms in R 4 and R 5 does not exceed 6); Y 2 represents a hydrogen atom or a group ##STR56## in which R 4 and R 5 are the same as defined above; m represents 0 or 1; and J 1 and J 2 may be the same or different and independently bivalent linking group having the formula --R 6 -- --(O) n --R p 7 -- in which R 6 and R 7 , which may be the same or different, independently represent an alkylene group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms or a phenylene group which may be substituted; n represents 0 or 1; p represents 1 when n is 1 and 1 or 0 when n is 0 (provided that, when p is 1, the total sum of carbon atoms in R 6 and R 7 does not exceed 13).