Eastman-kodak Company

Danny R Thompson

Philip T Lau

Mitchell Stewart Burberry

Samir Y Farid

John M Noonan

Robert C Daly

Thomas A Machell

Stephen P Singer

Stanley W Cowan

Frederick R Green, Iii

8-hydroxyquinoline and 5-hydroxyquinoline compounds of the following formulae: ##STR1## , wherein: R.sub.1 is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group with 8 to 30 carbon atoms;

Hydroxyquinoline cyan couplers and their process of production

A photographic element including a support bearing a silver halide photographic emulsion and an image dye-forming coupler, wherein the image dye-forming coupler includes a ballasted arylidene pyrazolone which is also a filter dye that upon exposure and processing of the element is destroyed in both exposed and unexposed areas of said element or a masking coupler that upon exposure and processing is destroyed only in exposed areas of the element. The arylidene pyrazolone compound includes an oxygen-inclusive electron donating group in conjugation with the arylidene function, preferably positioned para to the arylidene function.

Arylidene pyrazolone coupler

This invention relates to a multicolor dye donor element for laser-induced thermal dye transfer comprising a support having thereon a single dye layer comprising a mixture of at least two different colors of solid, homogeneous beads, each of which contains an image dye, a binder and a laser light-absorbing material, the beads being dispersed in a vehicle, and the beads of each color being sensitized to a different wavelength.

Mixture of dye-containing beads for laser-induced thermal dye transfer

This invention relates to a multicolor, multilayer dye donor element for laser-induced thermal dye transfer comprising a support having thereon two or more dye layers of different colors on top of each other, each dye layer comprising solid, homogeneous beads which contain an image dye, a binder and a laser light-absorbing material, the beads being dispersed in a vehicle, and the beads of each dye layer being sensitized to a different wavelength.

Multicolor dye-containing beads for multilayer dye-donor element for

Novel yellow image dye-forming couplers are disclosed. The couplers comprise an active open-chain keto-methylene group, an anilide group attached to the keto-methylene group, and a cyclic ether group attached to the keto-methylene group. The cyclic ether group comprises two oxygen atoms. Either the anilide group or the cyclic ether may carry a ballast group capable of immobilizing the coupler in the layer in which it is contained. Color photographic elements incorporating the novel couplers are also disclosed.

Yellow couplers for photographic elements and processes

A coupler having as a coupling-off group an alkyl group substituted with an electron source capable of stabilizing carbonium ion.

Alkyl substituted photographic couplers and photographic elements and

Process for the introduction of functional or functionalizable substituents para to the amino group in 2-aminophenols and 3-aminophenols. The process proceeds in one step, with substitution occurring selectively at the position para to the amino group. Consequently, the reaction is surprisingly straightforward, with very little or no contamination by isomeric by-products. The process comprises reaction of (a) an aminophenol having an open para position to the amino function, with (b) an unhindered non-enolizable aldehyde, and (c) a thiol or sulfinic acid which acts as a nucleophile. In preferred embodiments, the process is conducted at a temperature of from about 50.degree. C. to about 100.degree. C., and in the presence of a polar solvent. The reaction is promoted by an acid having sufficient acidity to protonate the amino group of the aminophenol. Preferably, the acid promoter is a mineral acid, and it is present in an amount at least substantially equivalent to the amount of aminophenol reactant. The promoter can be added as a salt of the aminophenol.

Process for preparing 5-substituted aminophenols

Process for the introduction of functional or functionalizable substituents para to the amino group in 2-aminophenols and 3-aminophenols. The process proceeds in one step, with substitution occurring selectively at the position para to the amino group. Consequently, the reaction is surprisingly straightforward, with very little or no contamination by isomeric by-products. The process comprises reaction of (a) an aminophenol having an open para position to the amino function, with (b) an unhindered non-enolizble aldehyde, and (c) a thiol or sulfinic acid which acts as a nucleophile. In preferred embodiments, the process is conducted at a temperature of from about 50.degree. C. to about 100.degree. C., and in the presence of a polar solvent. The reaction is promoted by an acid having sufficient acidity to protonate the amino group of the aminophenol. Preferably, the acid promoter is a mineral acid, and it is present in an amount at least substantially equivalent to the amount of aminophenol reactant. The promoter can be added as a salt of the aminophenol.

5-substituted aminophenols

There are disclosed light-sensitive compounds and a composition comprising (a) such compounds and (b) a compound having at least one reactive site capable of stepwise photoreaction with the light-sensitive compounds. The light-sensitive compounds have the structural formula, ##STR1## wherein Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 are each independently the number of non-metallic atoms necessary to complete 1, 2, 3, or 4 unsaturated carbocyclic or heterocyclic rings of from 6 to 18 nuclear atoms;

Novel light-sensitive compounds and photoreactable compositions

There are disclosed light-sensitive compounds and a composition comprising (a) such compounds and (b) a compound having at least one reactive site capable of stepwise photo-reaction with the light-sensitive compounds. The light-sensitive compounds have the structural formula, ##STR1## wherein Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 are each independently the number of non-metallic atoms necessary to complete 1, 2, 3, or 4 unsaturated carbocyclic or heterocyclic rings of from 6 to 18 nuclear atoms;

Growing community of inventors

Fairport, NY, United States of America

Danny R Thompson