Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Yasuhiro Hgashi

Tatsuya Tomura

Noboru Sasa

Yasunobu Ueno

Tsutomu Satou

An optical information recording medium which records at shorter laser wavelengths and has excellent light resistance and archival stability includes a supporting substrate and a recording layer coated on the substrate. The recording layer includes a metal chelated azo compound, the azo compound having the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X is NR.sup.6 group, oxygen or sulphur, wherein R.sup.6 is hydrogen or alkyl; Y is hydroxy, carboxy, or carbamoyl; each of R.sup.1 -R.sup.5 is independently hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl, alkoxy, amino, halogen, nitro, cyano, trifluoromethyl, or carboxy, with the proviso that all of R.sup.1 -R.sup.5 are not simultaneously hydrogen; and the metal is a metal ion of Groups 3-12 of the Periodic Table.

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Yokohama, Japan

Yasuhiro Hgashi