Polaroid Corporation

Frank A Meneghini

Paul S Palumbo

Michael J Arnost

James W Foley

Howard G Rogers

Stephen G Stroud

Ronald F Cieciuch

Roberta R Arbree

Roberta R Luhowy

Donald A McGowan

Charles M Zepp

Shai Inbar

Charles A Kelly

Compounds which are useful as substrates for enzymes are disclosed. An enzyme-controlled process is provided for generating a colored species from an initially substantially colorless material as a result of enzymatic attack. The process can be exploited to provide an enzyme-amplified diagnostic assay method to detect an analyte of interest present in a test sample.

Enzyme controlled processes and products

This invention relates to an enzyme-controlled release method for the release of a leaving group comprising:

Enzyme controlled release system

The present invention provides an enzyme controlled release system and prepared reactant by which an identifiable molecule may be released on demand through the action of an active enzyme. The controlled release system is useful for detection of an analyte of interest present in a test sample in picogram per liter quantities and may be employed in a variety of different modes of use including immunoassays, enzyme amplification systems and the release of pharmacologically active ligands.

Enzyme controlled release system and organic conjugate reactant

There are provided novel fluorescent conjugates comprising a rhodamine dye moiety and a biologically active moiety. In addition, there are provided methods for determining an analyte in a biological fluid.

Fluorescent conjugates and biological diagnostic assay

Fluorescent compounds which are conjugates of a biologically active moiety and an arylidene dye moiety. The compounds have a large Stokes shift and are useful in applications such as biological diagnostic elements.

Fluorescent conjugates and biological diagnostic assay system

This invention relates to photographic processes and products for forming an image in dye from a colorless precursor of a preformed image dye which is substituted with a moiety containing a thiazolidinyl group, said thiazolidinyl group (a) being capable of undergoing cleavage imagewise in the presence of an imagewise distribution of silver ion and/or soluble silver complex and (b) possessing a substituent on the carbon atom in the 2-position that undergoes a .beta.-elimination reaction upon said imagewise cleavage, which moiety maintains the precursor in its colorless form at least until said thiazolidinyl group undergoes said cleavage. In a further embodiment, an imagewise distribution of a photographically useful reagent, which reagent may be, for example, a photographically active reagent, is released as a carbamic acid by a .beta.-elimination reaction following the cleavage of a thiazolidinyl group whereby said reagent is provided with a solubilizing group at least during the initial stages of processing.

Photographic products and processes

This invention relates to photographic processes and products for forming an image in dye from a colorless precursor of a preformed image dye which is substituted with a moiety containing a thiazolidinyl group, said thiazolidinyl group (a) being capable of undergoing cleavage imagewise in the presence of an imagewise distribution of silver ion and/or soluble silver complex and (b) possessing a substituent on the carbon atom in the 2-position which upon cleavage of said thiazolidinyl group, undergoes a .beta.-elimination reaction followed by an intramolecularly accelerated nucleophilic displacement reaction, which moiety maintains the precursor in its colorless form at least until said thiazolidinyl group undergoes said cleavage. In a further embodiment, this sequence of reactions is used to release an imagewise distribution of a photographically useful reagent which reagent may be, for example, a photographically active reagent.

This invention is concerned with certain 3-(thiazolidin-2'-yl)-substituted phenyl sulfonamides which find utility as intermediates in the preparation of photographic image dye-providing materials.

Thiazolidinyl-substituted phenyl sulfonamides

This invention relates to certain 3-(thiazolidin-2'-yl)-4-hydroxy-phenyl sulfonic acids and to a method of converting said sulfonic acids to the corresponding sulfonyl chlorides by reacting said acid with neat thionyl chloride or with thionyl chloride in a chlorinated hydrocarbon. In another embodiment, the 3-(thiazolidin-2'-yl)-4-hydroxy-phenyl sulfonic acid is synthesized, without isolating intermediates, starting with the sulfonation of salicylaldehyde and then forming the 3-(thiazolidin-2'-yl) substituent.

Thiazolidine-substituted phenyl sulfonic acids

This invention relates to color providing compounds useful as dye image-forming materials in color photographic processes. These compounds comprise a complete dye, i.e., a dye radical comprising the chromophoric system of a dye, such as, an azo, anthraquinone, azomethine or phthalocyanine dye and a cyclic moiety capable of undergoing cleavage in the presence of silver ion and/or soluble silver complex containing the group ##STR1## wherein said C atom common to said S and N atoms is a tetrahedral carbon atom possessing 4 single covalent bonds. Preferred compounds comprise the radical of an organic dye substituted with [(L).sub.m-1 -Y] wherein L is a divalent organic linking group containing at least one carbon atom, m is a positive integer 1 or 2, and Y is a cyclic moiety selected from ##STR2## WHEREIN R.sup.1 is hydrogen or a monovalent organic radical; R.sup.2 is hydrogen or a monovalent hydrocarbon radical; and Z represents the carbon atoms necessary to complete a ring system having 4 to 20 atoms, said cyclic moiety (a) being attached to a carbon atom of said dye by a single covalent bond when m is 1 and attached to the carbon atom of said linking group L by a single covalent bond when m is 2 and ##STR3## WHEREIN R.sup.1 and Z have the same meaning given above, said cyclic moiety (b) being attached to a carbon atom of said dye by a spiro union when m is 1 and attached to the carbon atom of said linking group L by a spiro union when m is 2.

Dye substituted cyclic 1,3-sulfur-nitrogen compounds as dye

A silver ion scavenger layer is employed between adjacent silver halide strata to enhance color separation in multicolor photographic images prepared by processes which utilize the imagewise distribution of silver ions and/or soluble silver complex made available during development to liberate a corresponding imagewise distribution of dye or dye intermediate from a color-providing compound.

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Frank A Meneghini