Silver halide color photographic material and method of processing the same using an improved desilvering accelerator

Claim 1

A method of processing silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material used for taking photographs, wherein the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material used for taking photographs has at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a substrate in which the total amount of coated silver is 5.2 g/m 2 or less, the average iodide content based on the total amount of light-sensitive silver halide grains is 5.5 mol% or less, and a 2-equivalent magenta polymer coupler is included as a magenta coupler, said method comprising subjecting the material to one of bleach-fixing treatment, bleaching treatment at a pH of 5.5 or less, or desilvering treatment in the presence of a desilvering accelerator represented by general formula XI or XII: ##STR44## wherein A represents a n-valent aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic linking group provided that, if n equals 1, A is merely an aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic group or a hydrogen atom, X represents --O--, --S-- or ##STR45## wherein R 4 represents a lower alkyl group, R 1 and R 2 represent a substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl group, R 3 represents a lower alkylene group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, Y represents an anion, l is zero or 1; m, zero or 1; n, 1, 2 or 3; p, zero or 1; and 1, zero, 1, 2, or 3, ##STR46## wherein R 11 and R 12 may be the same or different and represent a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl group, and r is an integer of 1 to 3 provided that R 11 and R 12 is not a hydrogen atom at the same time.

Claim 2

A method of processing silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material used for taking photographs, wherein the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material used for taking photographs has at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a substrate in which the total amount of coated silver is 5.2 g/m 2 or less, the average iodide content based on the total amount of light-sensitive silver halide grains is 5.5 mol% or less, and a 2-equivalent magenta polymer coupler is included as a magenta coupler, said method comprising subjecting the material to one of bleach-fixing treatment, bleaching treatment at a pH of 5.5 or less, or desilvering treatment in the presence of a desilvering accelerator represented by general formula XI or XII: ##STR44## wherein A represents a n-valent aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic linking group provided that, if n equals 1, A is merely an aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic group or a hydrogen atom, X represents --O--, --S-- or ##STR45## wherein R 4 represents a lower alkyl group, R 1 and R 2 represent a substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl group, R 3 represents a lower alkylene group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, Y represents an anion, l is zero or 1; m, zero or 1; n, 1, 2 or 3; p, zero or 1; and 1, zero, 1, 2, or 3, ##STR46## wherein R 11 and R 12 may be the same or different and represent a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl group, and r is an integer of 1 to 3 provided that R 11 and R 12 is not a hydrogen atom at the same time.