Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material

Details Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material

1999-09-10

2001-03-06

Letscher, Geraldine (Department: 1752)

Radiation imagery chemistry: process, composition, or product th

Radiation sensitive product

Identified radiation sensitive composition with color...

C430S543000

Reexamination Certificate

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06197493

ABSTRACT:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, hereinafter simply referred to a color light-sensitive material, particularly relates to a color light-sensitive material containing a novel yellow coupler which can be produced with a lowered cost and is excellent in color-forming efficiency, color reproducibility and image storage ability, in a silver halide emulsion layer thereof.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
It is a recent trend in color light-sensitive material that a two-equivalent coupler, in which an appropriate substituent is introduced at the coupling position or reactive position at which the coupler is reacted with the oxidation product of a color developing agent so that one molecular of dye can be formed from the coupler by the reduction of two silver atoms, is used in place of a 4-equivalent coupler by which requires reduction of 4 silver atoms to form one molecule of dye.
Requirements to the coupler are increasingly made harder accompanied with progress in the color light-sensitive material and more improvements are required not only in the color-forming efficiency but also in a color reproducibility, a storage ability of image, a solubility in a high-boiling solvent and a stability of dispersion thereof.
As a technique for improving the color reproducibility and the color-forming efficiency, a yellow coupler has been known, which has a heterocyclic ring having a cyclic imide structure as a releasing group, and an alkoxy group at 2-position of the anilide moiety of the coupler. For example, Japanese Patent Publication Open for Public Inspection (JP O.P.I.) No. 63-38932 describes a yellow coupler having an alkoxy group at 2-position of the anilide moiety thereof and a hydantoin group or a imidazolone group as a releasing group thereof. However, such the coupler has a drawback that the coupler is inferior in the color reproducibility and the light-fastness since a sulfamoyl group is exist as a ballast group.
A yellow coupler improved in the light-fastness while maintaining a high color reproducibility and color-forming efficiency such as one described in JP O.P.I. No. 63-123047 has been known, which has an alkoxy group at 2-position and an acylamino group at 5-position of the anilide moiety. However, such the coupler is inferior in a solubility in a low-boiling solvent such as ethyl acetate and a high-boiling solvent such as dibutyl phthalate. Accordingly, a problem inconvenient to production of color light-sensitive material that a large amount of the solvent is necessary to disperse the coupler is raised. Furthermore, the coupler has a drawback that the coupler tends to be precipitated after dissolved in the solvent. It has been found that such the drawbacks become a impediment to the practical use of the coupler since the drawback are considerably emphasized under a condition for reducing the layer thickness, which is strongly required in recent years. Furthermore, the coupler described in this document is characterized in that a sulfonyl group is included in the ballast group thereof. For introducing the sulfonyl group, a complex synthesis procedure is required and the production cost is made higher.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,338,403 describes a yellow coupler having an alkoxy group at 2-position and a sulfonylamino group at 5-position of the anilide moiety and an imidazolyl group as a releasing group. Although such the coupler has a sufficient light-fastness and stability of dispersion, the coupler is required further improvement in the color-forming efficiency which is the most important property of color-forming coupler.
In European Patent No. 416684, a yellow is described which has an alkoxy group at 2-position and a sulfonylamino group at 5-position of the anilide moiety and an aryloxy group as the releasing group. Such the coupler has a high color-forming efficiency caused by the presence of the aryloxy group, However, the presence of the aryloxy group causes lowering in the light-fastness of the coupler and the lowered light-fastness makes a large impediment to the practical use of the coupler particularly in a color photographic paper.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The first object of the invention is to provide a color light-sensitive material which contains a novel 2-equivalent yellow coupler which can be produced with a lowered cost and is excellent in the color-forming efficiency.
The second object of the invention is to provide a color light-sensitive material containing a novel 2-equivalent coupler which forms a dye having an excellent image storage ability, particularly an excellent light-fastness, and a sharp spectral absorption of visible light necessary for making a high fidelity of color reproduction and gives a bright color image.
The above-mentioned objects of the invention can be attained by a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer which contains a yellow dye forming coupler, hereinafter referred to a yellow coupler, represented by the following Formula I;
wherein R
1
is an aliphatic group or an aromatic group, R
2
is a anti-diffusion aliphatic or aromatic group, R
3
is a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom, and X is a 5- or 6-member nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group capable of being released upon coupling reaction with the oxidation product of a color developing agent.
In the above Formula I, the aliphatic group represented by R
1
includes a straight- or branched-chain alkyl group such as a methyl group, an ethyl group, an iso-propyl group, a t-butyl group, a n-dodecyl group, and a 1-hexylnonyl group. The alkyl group represented by R
1
may have a substituent. As the substituent the following groups can be cited; for example, a halogen atom such as a chlorine atom and a bromine atom, an aryl group such as a phenyl group and a p-t-octylphenyl group, an alkoxy group such as a methoxy group, an aryloxy group such as a 2,4-di-t-aminophenoxy group, a sulfonyl group such as a methanesulfonyl group, an acylamino group such as an acetylamino group and a benzoylamino group, a sulfonylamino group such as a n-dodecanesulfonylamino group, and a hydroxyl group.
The aromatic group represented by R
1
in Formula I includes preferably an aryl group having 6 to 14 carbon atoms such as a phenyl group, a 1-naphthyl group and a 9-anthranyl group. The aryl group represented by R
1
may further have a substituent. The following groups may be cited as the substituent; for example, a nitro group, a cyano group, an amino group such as a dimethylamino group and an anilino group, an alkylthio group such as a methylthio group, an alkyl group the same as that represented by R
1
and the group cited as the substituent of the alkyl group represented by R
1
of Formula I.
As the group represented by group R
1
, an alkyl group is preferable, and a branched-chain alkyl group is more preferable and a t-butyl group is particularly preferable.
As the anti-diffusion aliphatic group, a straight- or branched-chain alkyl group having 8 to 21 carbon atoms such as a 2-ethylhexyl group, an iso-tridecyl group, a hexadecyl group and an octadecyl group, is preferable. The ant-diffusion alkyl group may have a structure having an interposed functional group such as that represented by the following Formula II.
Formula II
—J—X—R
12
In the formula, J is a straight or branched-chain alkylene group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms such as a methylene group, a 1,1-dimethylene group and a 1-decylmethylene group, and R
12
is a straight or branched alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms such as that the same as that represented by R
1
of Formula I. X is a bonding of —O—, —OCO—, —OSO
2
—, —CO—, —COO—, —CON(R
13
)—, —CON(R
13
)SO
2
—, —N(R
13
)—, —N(R
13
)CO—, —N(R
13
)SO
2
—, —N(R
13
)CON(R
14
)—, —N(R
13
)COO—, —S(O)
n
I—, —S(O),N(R
13
)— or —S(O)
n
N(R
13
)CO—. In the above formula, R
13
and R
14
are each a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group each the same as that represented by R
1
in Formula I, n is 0, 1 or 2, and R
12
may be b

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