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Light sensitive, color photographic silver halide compositions with DIR-couplers
Assignee: Filmfabrik Wolfen VEB
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Filing: 1981-05-08
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Granted: 1983-06-07
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Expires: 2001-05-08
Abstract
Abstract A light-sensitive, color photographic silver halide multilayer material contains for the improvement of definition, grain and color rendition DIR-couplers which are substituted in coupling position by mercapto-azole-, mercaptobenz-azole- or mercapto-azine moieties, which themselves carry hydrophilic substituents. The DIR-couplers according to the invention may be used together with other couplers and additives or as sole color forming element and are noteworthy for their high color yields, inter- and intra-image effects. They may be added as well in hydrophobic state (in dispersed form) as in hydrophilic state (as alkaline solutions) and they may be used in single layers or as associated layers with a maximum three layers of a color forming unit and the layers may be arranged in any desired order within the whole combination of layers.
Inventors
- 👤 Horst Engelmann
- 👤 Rainer Redmann
- 👤 Monika Bethke
- 👤 Christa Melz
- 👤 Gerd West
- 👤 Jurgen Mistol
- 👤 Udo Sydow
Bibliographic Details
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Jurisdiction
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2026-10-28 11:54
CPC Classifications
C; C07; C07D; C07D239/00; C07D239/02; C07D239/24; C07D239/28; C07D239/46; C07D239/56; C07D231/00; C07D231/02; C07D231/10; C07D231/14; C07D231/44; C07D231/52; C07D235/00; C07D235/02; C07D235/04; C07D235/24; C07D235/28; C07D249/00; C07D249/02; C07D249/08; C07D249/10; C07D249/12; C07D257/00; C07D257/02; C07D257/04; G; G03; G03C; G03C7/00; G03C7/30; G03C7/305; G03C7/30541; G03C7/30552
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim
173 words
A light-sensitive, color photographic material including at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a DIR-coupler, the DIR-coupler being a compound of the formula K-S-Y wherein K is a color-forming group containing a diffusion preventing moiety, for reaction with an oxidation product of a color developer to yield purple, yellow, and blue-green dyes, simultaneously liberating a hydrophilically substituted development inhibitor, wherein the blue-green color coupler has a 1-naphthol- or phenol-structure, the purple color coupler has a 1-aryl-pyrazolone-5-structure and the yellow color coupler has an acylacetanilide structure; and Y is an aryl-substituted azole, azine or benzazole of the general formulae I or II: ##STR34## wherein Z represents atoms or atom groups completing the azole- or azine-tetrazole-, triazole, imidazole-, or pyrimidine ring, X is O, S, or NR 2 , R 1 is OR 3 , COOR 3 , SO 2 NHR 3 , SO 3 R 3 , R 2 is H, or an alkyl moiety of one to five carbon atoms, and R 3 is H, an ammonium ion, or a metal ion.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
173 words
A light-sensitive, color photographic material including at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a DIR-coupler, the DIR-coupler being a compound of the formula K-S-Y wherein K is a color-forming group containing a diffusion preventing moiety, for reaction with an oxidation product of a color developer to yield purple, yellow, and blue-green dyes, simultaneously liberating a hydrophilically substituted development inhibitor, wherein the blue-green color coupler has a 1-naphthol- or phenol-structure, the purple color coupler has a 1-aryl-pyrazolone-5-structure and the yellow color coupler has an acylacetanilide structure; and Y is an aryl-substituted azole, azine or benzazole of the general formulae I or II: ##STR34## wherein Z represents atoms or atom groups completing the azole- or azine-tetrazole-, triazole, imidazole-, or pyrimidine ring, X is O, S, or NR 2 , R 1 is OR 3 , COOR 3 , SO 2 NHR 3 , SO 3 R 3 , R 2 is H, or an alkyl moiety of one to five carbon atoms, and R 3 is H, an ammonium ion, or a metal ion.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
55 words
A photographic material according to claim 1, in which the hydrophilic substituted inhibitor splittable group consists of a 1-aryltetrazole-5-ylthio-moiety of the following structure ##STR35## in which R 1 is --OR 3 , --COOR 3 , --SO 2 NHR 3 or --SO 3 R 3 and R 3 is a H-atom, an ammonium- or a metal-ion.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
29 words
A light-sensitive, color photographic material according to claim 1 in which the proportion of the couplers defined in claim 1 is 30 to 100 g. per mol silver halide.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
33 words
A light-sensitive, color photographic material according to claim 1 in which the material also contains other DIR-couplers and the total proportion of the DIR-couplers is 1 to 30 g. per mol silver halide.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
15 words
The material of claim 1 wherein the DIR-coupler is a compound of the formula ##STR36##
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
15 words
The material of claim 1 wherein the DIR-coupler is a compound of the formula ##STR37##
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
15 words
The material of claim 1 wherein the DIR-coupler is a compound of the formula ##STR38##
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
15 words
The material of claim 1 wherein the DIR-coupler is a compound of the formula ##STR39##
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
15 words
The material of claim 1 wherein the DIR-coupler is a compound of the formula ##STR40##
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
15 words
The material of claim 1 wherein the DIR-coupler is a compound of the formula ##STR41##
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