Color photographic material yellow and cyan dye forming couplers and compound which produces a diffusible development inhibitor or a precursor in a blue sensitive layer

Claim 2

A color photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one coupler capable of reacting with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent to form a yellow dye, at least one coupler capable of reacting with said oxidation product to form a cyan dye and not to produce a diffusible development inhibitor or a precursor thereof, and at least one compound capable of reacting with said oxidation product to produce a diffusible development inhibitor or a precursor thereof, wherein the at least one coupler forming the yellow dye, the at least one coupler forming the cyan dye and the at least one compound producing a diffusible development inhibitor or a precursor thereof are present in the same blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer.

Claim 3

A color photographic material as in claim 1, wherein said at least one compound capable of reacting with said oxidation product to produce a diffusible development inhibitor or a precursor thereof is a DIR coupler which does not form a cyan dye.

Claim 4

A color photographic material as in claim 1, wherein said at least one coupler capable of reacting with said oxidation product to form a cyan dye is present in an amount of from 2×10 -3 to 5×10 -1 mol/mol of silver halide.

Claim 5

A color photographic material as in claim 3, wherein said at least one coupler capable of reacting with said oxidation product to form a cyan dye is present in an amount of from 1×10 -2 to 5×10 -1 mol/mol of silver halide.

Claim 6

A color photographic material as in claim 2, wherein said DIR coupler is present in an amount of from 1×10 -3 to 5×10 -1 mol/mol of silver halide.

Claim 7

A color photographic material as in claim 5, wherein said DIR coupler is present in an amount of from 3×10 -3 to 1×10 -1 mol/mol of silver halide.

Claim 8

A color photographic material as in claim 1, wherein said at least one coupler capable of reacting with said oxidation product to form a yellow dye present in an amount of from 1×10 -3 to 1 mol/mol of silver halide.

Claim 9

A color photographic material as in claim 7, wherein said at least one coupler capable of reacting with said oxidation product to form a yellow dye present in an amount of from 1×10 -2 to 5×10 -1 mol/mol of silver halide.

Claim 10

A color photographic material as in claim 1, wherein said support has provided thereon consecutively said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta coupler-containing green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and a cyan coupler-containing red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer.

Claim 11

A color photographic material as in claim 2, wherein said DIR coupler is a DIR coupler represented by formula (VII) J--(L.sub.1).sub.a --Y--L.sub.2 --Z).sub.b (VII) wherein J represents a coupler moiety; Y represents an essential moiety of a compound showing development-inhibiting effect, and is bound to the coupling position of said coupler moiety directly (when a is 0) or through linking group L 1 (when a is 1); Z represents a substituent bound to Y through linking group L 2 and capable of making the development-inhibiting effect of Y emerge; L 1 represents a linking group selected from the group consisting of groups represented together with J and Y--(L 2 --Z) by the following formulae: ##STR17## (wherein R represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms; X 1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a cyano group, a nitro group, an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or a group represented by --OR 4 , --COOR 4 , --CONHR 4 , --NHCOR 4 , --NHSO 2 R 4 , --SO 2 NHR 4 or --SO 2 R 4 wherein R 4 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms; and c represents an integer of 0 to 2); L 2 represents a linking group containing a chemical bond to be split in a developer, and represented together with the positions at which Y and Z substitute by the following formulae: ##STR18## (wherein d represents an integer of 0 to 10; W is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group containing 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkanamido group containing 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group containing 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkoxycarbonyl group containing 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an aryloxycarbonyl group, an alkanesulfonamido group containing 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an aryl group, a carbamoyl group, an N-alkylcarbamoyl group containing 1 to 10 carbon atoms, a nitro group, a cyano group, an arylsulfonamido group, a sulfamoyl group, and an imido group); a represents 0 or 1; and b represents 1 or 2, and when b represents 2, --L 2 --Z)'s may be the same or different.

Claim 12

A color photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one coupler capable of reacting with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent to form a yellow dye, and at least one coupler capable of reacting with said oxidation product to produce both a cyan dye and a diffusible development inhibitor or a precursor thereof, wherein the at least one coupler forming the yellow dye and the at least one coupler producing both a cyan dye and a diffusible development inhibitor or a precursor thereof are present in the same blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer.

Claim 13

A color photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one coupler capable of reacting with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent to form a yellow dye, and at least one coupler capable of reacting with said oxidation product to produce both a cyan dye and a diffusible development inhibitor or a precursor thereof, wherein the at least one coupler forming the yellow dye and the at least one coupler producing both a cyan dye and a diffusible development inhibitor or a precursor thereof are present in the same blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer.

Claim 14

A color photographic material as in claim 11, wherein said at least one coupler capable of reacting with said oxidation product to produce both a cyan dye and a diffusible development inhibitor or a precursor thereof is a DIR coupler represented by formula (VII) J--(L.sub.1).sub.a --Y--L.sub.2 --Z).sub.b (VII) wherein J represents a coupler moiety; Y represents an essential moiety of a compound showing development-inhibiting effect, and is bound to the coupling position of said coupler moiety directly (when a is 0) or through linking group L 1 (when a is 1); Z represents a substituent bound to Y through linking group L 2 and capable of making the development-inhibiting effect of Y emerge; L 1 represents a linking group selected from the group consisting of groups represented together with J and Y--(L 2 --Z) by the following formulae: ##STR19## (wherein R represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms; X 1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a cyano group, a nitro group, an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or a group represented by --OR 4 , --COOR 4 , --CONHR 4 , --NHCOR 4 , --NHSO 2 R 4 , --SO 2 NHR 4 or --SO 2 R 4 wherein R 4 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms; and c represents an integer of 0 to 2); L 2 represents a linking group containing a chemical bond to be split in a developer, and represented together with the positions at which Y and Z substitute by the following formulae: ##STR20## (wherein d represents an integer of 0 to 10; W is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group containing 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkanamido group containing 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group containing 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkoxycarbonyl group containing 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an aryloxycarbonyl group, an alkanesulfonamido group containing 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an aryl group, a carbamoyl group, an N-alkylcarbamoyl group containing 1 to 10 carbon atoms, a nitro group, a cyano group, an arylsulfonamido group, a sulfamoyl group, and an imido group); a represents 0 or 1; and b represents 1 or 2, and when b represents 2, --L 2 --Z)'s may be the same or different.

Claim 15

A color photographic material as in claim 1 which exhibits improved yellow-green reproducibility.

Claim 16

A color photographic material as in claim 11, which exhibits improved yellow-green reproducibility.

Claim 17

A color photographic material as in claim 1, containing from 0.01 to 0.5 mole of the coupler forming the yellow dye, from 1×10 -2 to 5×10 -1 mole of the coupler forming the cyan dye and from 3×10 -3 to 1×10 -1 mole of the compound producing a diffusible development inhibitor or a precursor thereof.