Eastman-kodak Company

Paul L Stanley

Bernard A Clark

Paul B Merkel

Stephen P Singer

Christina M Watts

Jerrold N Poslusny

Michael W Crawley

Philip A Allway

Hugh M Williamson

John Demita Goddard

David T Clarke

James P Merrill

Jane Sarah Boff

Trevor J Wear

Louis Elbert Friedrich

Siu C Tsoi

Nigel E Milner

Andrew William Gibson

Siu (Lambert) C Tsoi

The invention relates to a novel kind of anthranilic acid compound that releases a UG as a function of chemical bond cleavage according to Formula (I):Q-(AAS)-UGwhere UG is an useful group and is chemically bonded to (AAS); (AAS) is an anthranilic acid switching group; and Q is a group in which the bond to (AAS) is broken so that the -(AAS)-UG fragment subsequently decomposes to the free UG. In one embodiment this invention relates to a multilayer silver halide photographic element comprising a support bearing a cyan dye image-forming unit comprised of at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one cyan dye-forming coupler, a magenta dye image-forming unit comprising at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one magenta dye-forming coupler, and a yellow dye image-forming unit comprising at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one yellow dye-forming coupler, wherein at least one layer additionally contains an anthranilic acid compound according to Formula (II):G-(TG1)-(AATG)-(TG2)-PUGwhere G is a group in which the bond to the timing group is cleaved upon reaction with oxidized developer; TG1 and TG2 represent any known timing or switching group and may be the same or different; q and p are independently 0 or 1; AATG represents an anthranilic acid timing group and PUG is a photographically useful group.

Compound containing an anthranilic acid blocking group

Color photographic element containing a heterocyclic dye-forming coupler

A photographic element comprising a support bearing one or more silver halide emulsions at least one of which comprises at least 50% silver chloride in association with one or more image dye-forming couplers and one or more DI(A)R couplers of formulae I or II:

Photographic element containing a DIR coupler

The present invention provides a photographic element comprising a support bearing a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer in association with an image dye-forming coupler and having associated therewith a compound of general formula

Photographic addenda

The invention provides a photographic element comprising a silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith an image dye-forming coupler of formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X is H or a coupling-off group, R is H; or R, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are the same or different and are coupler-modifying functional groups (with the provisos that (a) the moiety N(R.sub.1)COR.sub.2 may not be a carbamate, ureido or imido and (b) R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may not both be phenyl or substituted phenyl); or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 taken together with the nitrogen atom and the carbonyl group form a 5-10 membered heterocyclic ring which may contain one or more further heteroatoms selected from N, O and S, said heterocyclic ring being unsubstituted or substituted with one or more coupler-modifying functional groups, with the proviso that the ring is not a cyclic carbamate, ureido or imido; and wherein the coupler forms a dye with a peak absorption less than 565 nm.

Silver halide photographic element comprising image dye-forming couplers

Novel non-diffusible pyrazolo-�1,5-a! benzimidazole color couplers having an alkylene-, oxyalkylene- or arylene- thio coupling-off group, substituted with a carboxylic acid or dialkylamino group, have dye-forming and/or bleach-accelerating properties. The couplers are generally associated with a silver halide emulsion layer coated on a support to form a single color or multi-color photographic element.

Pyrazolo 1,5 a benzimidazole photographic color couplers

The invention provides a light sensitive photographic silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a magenta coupler having formula I: ##STR1## wherein: R represents a ballasted monosubstituted amino group which enables the coupler to form, upon development with 4-amino-3-methyl-N-ethyl-N-(2-hydroxyethyl)aniline sulfate developing agent, a magenta dye having a wavelength of maximum absorbance of 545 nm or greater; and

Photographic material containing magenta dye forming coupler

The combination of a magenta dye image-forming coupler, such as a phenylpyrazolone, with a substituted phenol in a photographic material provides an enhancement in the light stability of the resultant magenta image dye. The phenol has the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein each R is the same or different and is an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, halogen, cyano, SO.sub.2 R.sup.1, SO.sub.2 NHR.sup.1, NHSO.sub.2 R.sup.1 or COOR.sup.1 group, in which R.sup.1 is an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl or aryl group and n is from 1 to 5. The phenol may totally or partially replace the conventional coupler solvent. The combination is useful in single colour or multi-colour photographic silver halide emulsion materials and processes.

Photographic material comprising a magenta dye image forming coupler

The invention provides a photographic element comprising a support bearing a blue-light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing an acylacetanilide yellow image dye-forming coupler having formula I or II: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.a is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkoxy, or aryloxy group; R.sub.b is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group; R.sub.c is hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group; R.sub.1 is a substituent; n is an integer from 0 to 2; R.sub.2 is selected from the group consisting of halogen, trifluoromethyl, and substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy and aryloxy; R.sub.3 is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group; R.sub.4 is hydrogen, halogen, alkoxy carbonyl (--CO.sub.2 R), carbamoyl (--CONRR'), carbonamido (--NRCOR'), sulfonamido (--NRSO.sub.2 R') or trifluoromethyl; R.sub.1 is a substituent; X is hydrogen or a coupling-off group; wherein said blue-light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer is a low-chloride silver halide emulsion. The invention enables improved image quality through increased interimage effects.

Photographic element containing a certain sulfonated acylacetanilide

The present invention provides a photographic element comprising a support bearing a blue-light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing an acylacetanilide yellow image dye-forming coupler having formula I or II: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.a is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl groups, alkoxy group or aryloxy group; R.sub.b is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group; R.sub.c is hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group; R.sub.1 is a substituent; n is an integer from 0 to 2; R.sub.2 is selected from the group consisting of halogen, trifluoromethyl, and substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy and aryloxy; R.sub.3 is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl; R.sub.4 is hydrogen, halogen, alkoxy carbonyl (--CO.sub.2 R), carbamoyl (--CONRR'), carbonamido (--NRCOR'), sulfonamido (--NRSO.sub.2 R') or trifluoromethyl; and X is hydrogen or a coupling-off group; and wherein the blue-light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer has associated therewith a development inhibitor releasing coupler. The invention also provides a method of forming an image in such an element.

The present invention provides a photographic element comprising a support bearing a blue light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing an acylacetanilide yellow image dye-forming coupler having formula I: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.a is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkoxy, or aryloxy group;

Photographic elements containing certain acylacetanilide couplers in

A method of forming a photographic colour image which comprises imagewise exposing a photographic silver halide colour material and processing it with an alkaline developer solution in the presence of a sulphonhydrazide developer and a heteroarylacetonitrile colour coupler thus forming a dye image by reaction of oxidised colour developing agent and the colour coupler. A colour photographic material is also provided having at least two colour-forming units sensitive to different regions of the spectrum, each having a silver halide emulsion layer, characterised in that the material contains in or adjacent said layer, a ballasted photographic colour coupler and a ballasted sulphonhydrazide colour developing agent incorporated therein in droplets of a high boiling solvent and in which the colour coupler is a heteroarylacetonitrile.

Photographic silver halide color materials

Improved hue, speed of dye formation and reduced staining are provided by a photographic element comprising a light-sensitive silver halide layer having associated therewith a 1-phenyl-3-anilino-pyrazolo-5-one coupler comprising a ballasted parent and a coupling-off group and containing substituents on the 1-phenyl and 3-anilino rings of the parent having Hammett sigma values which together sum to at least 1.1, the coupler further having at the 4-position of the pyrazolone ring a coupling-off group comprising a phenylthio group containing a carbonamido substituent in the position para to the sulfur on the phenylthio ring with the substituents on the phenylthio ring selected such that the calculated log P of the thiophenol corresponding to the coupling-off group is at least 4. ##STR1##

Photographic elements containing magenta couplers and process for using

This invention provides a color photographic element comprising, in an adjacent silver halide emulsion layer,

Photographic silver halide color materials with sulfonylhydrazine color

A photographic element contains a light-sensitive silver halide layer having associated therewith a coupler which is a pyrazolone compound with a coupling-off substituent at the -4-position, said compound having the formula: ##STR1## wherein each R.sup.1 is independently a substituted or unsubstituted alkylsulfonyl or arylsulfonyl group; each R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 is independently a substituent; R.sup.4, R.sup.5, and R.sup.6 are independently hydrogen or substituted or unsubstituted alkyl groups; m and n are independently 0 or 1 but both are not 0; x1 and x2 are independently 0 to 5; and y is 0 to 3; provided that each of R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, and R.sup.6 is selected such that the calculated log P of the thiophenol corresponding to the substituent at the 4-position of the pyrazolone is at least 4. The photographic element provides an improved combination of low continued coupling together with a magenta hue exhibiting a long wavelength of maximum absorption.

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Paul L Stanley