EP0294104B1 - Einen farbbildenden Cyankuppler enthaltendes photographisches Element - Google Patents

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EP0294104B1
EP0294104B1 EP19880304780 EP88304780A EP0294104B1 EP 0294104 B1 EP0294104 B1 EP 0294104B1 EP 19880304780 EP19880304780 EP 19880304780 EP 88304780 A EP88304780 A EP 88304780A EP 0294104 B1 EP0294104 B1 EP 0294104B1
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    • G03C—PHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIALS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES; PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, e.g. CINE, X-RAY, COLOUR, STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES; AUXILIARY PROCESSES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
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    • G03C7/30—Colour processes using colour-coupling substances; Materials therefor; Preparing or processing such materials
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    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03C—PHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIALS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES; PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, e.g. CINE, X-RAY, COLOUR, STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES; AUXILIARY PROCESSES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
    • G03C1/00—Photosensitive materials
    • G03C1/005—Silver halide emulsions; Preparation thereof; Physical treatment thereof; Incorporation of additives therein
    • G03C1/04—Silver halide emulsions; Preparation thereof; Physical treatment thereof; Incorporation of additives therein with macromolecular additives; with layer-forming substances
    • G03C1/053—Polymers obtained by reactions involving only carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds, e.g. vinyl polymers

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  • This invention relates to color photography and more particularly to photographic elements and methods for producing color images employing a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion comprising cyan dye-forming couplers in association with certain lower alkoxyalkyl acrylate polymer latices.
  • a dye image is formed during a process which includes the treatment of an imagewise exposed light-sensitive material comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer and a dye-forming coupler in a developing solution, followed by bleaching and fixing.
  • a color developing agent usually a p-phenylenediamine
  • Oxidized developing agent then reacts with the coupler to form a dye whose color is determined by the chromophoric structure of the dye contributed by the coupler.
  • the developed silver is reoxidized by a bleaching agent and further fixed with a silver halide solubilizing agent for removal during the final wash cycle.
  • An optional stabilizing treatment may be included prior to drying the so processed material.
  • the bleaching of the developed silver and the fixing of the silver halide for final removal from the element can be performed either in sequential steps using separate bleach and fix solutions or in one step using a single solution wherein the bleaching and fixing agents are combined.
  • the latter solution is commonly referred to as a bleach-fix solution.
  • oxidizing agents are known for use as silver bleaching agents in such bleach and bleach-fix solutions
  • metal complex salts of an organic acid such as an EDTA-iron complex salt, have become a common bleaching agent because of their low toxicity and environmental safety.
  • the use of such complexes in color photographic bleach and bleach-fix processing solutions is taught in, for example, U.S. Patent Nos. 3,615,508; 3,770,437; 3,870,520; 4,242,442 and 4,288,618.
  • ferric complex salts as color photographic bleaching agents does, however, have certain disadvantages.
  • One such disadvantage is the lower density of image dye derived from naphtholic and certain phenolic couplers in color photographic materials treated after color development in a solution containing such an organic complex salt as the bleaching agent.
  • secondary conditions may contribute to an objectionably low density of image dye in any processed photographic material, it is the conversion of cyan image dye derived from naphtholic and certain phenolic couplers to a leuco compound which is generally recognized as the basic cause of the problem.
  • U.S. Patents 3,706,561; 3,770,437; 4,033,771; 4,301,236; 4,469,781 and 4,563,405 describe approaches which involve changing the concentration or composition of the bleach or bleach-fix solutions.
  • U.S. Patent 4,366,233 proposes to reduce the total amount of silver contained in layers disposed below the cyan dye-forming layer of a color photographic element.
  • U.S. Patents 3,820,997 and 4,469,781 and U.K. Patent 1,393,335 relate to the treatment of the bleached photographic material with a variety of chemicals contained in a separate processing bath.
  • Patents 4,151,680 and 4,374,922; 4,591,548 disclose preferred classes of cyan dye-forming couplers for overcoming the above cited problem.
  • the 548 patent also points to the presence of ferrous ions in the bleach solution as the cause for the conversion of cyan image dye to a leuco compound.
  • color photographic silver halide materials can contain acrylate and/or acrylic acid polymer latices for a variety of purposes. See U.S. Patents 3,926,436; 4,201,589; 4,214,047; 4,214,627; 4,358,533; 4,612,278; German OLS 3,336,582; and Research Disclosure Item 19551, July 1980.
  • our invention is directed to a process of bleaching silver from a photographic element containing a cyan image dye, wherein bleaching is performed in the presence of a polymer latex free of recurring units containing coupler moieties, the polymer comprising recurring units of the monomer of formula (I).
  • our invention is directed to photographic elements containing cyan dye images formed by a process that includes this bleaching process.
  • our invention relates to such materials and processes in which the polymer latex further contains recurring units of an ionic monomer, as described, as an ionomer, of formula (II):
  • monomer (I) can comprise from 5 to 100% by weight of the total polymer, and ionomer (II) can comprise from 0 to 20%, and preferably from 2 to 10%, by weight of the total polymer.
  • one or more other ethylenically unsaturated comonomers can be present in the latex polymers employed in this invention.
  • Such additional monomers are selected to modify such physical and chemical properties of the polymer as solubility, compatibility, stability and flexibility.
  • the latex polymer is incorporated in the photographic element in a location and an amount that will be effective to reduce, or inhibit leuco dye formation in coupler-derived cyan dye as a result of bleaching in the presence of ferrous ions. In a common color negative format this amount can be in the range of 0.05 to 5.0 grams per square meter.
  • the latex polymer is in the same layer as the cyan dye-forming coupler.
  • polymeric latices containing units of formula (I) are useful to inhibit leuco dye formation while polymers derived from closely analogous acrylates are ineffective for this purpose.
  • cyan couplers are represented by one of the structural formulae III and IV, wherein
  • Photographic elements of the invention can be single color elements or multicolor elements.
  • Multicolor elements contain dye image-forming units sensitive to each of the three primary regions of the visible spectrum.
  • Each unit can be comprised of a single emulsion layer or of multiple emulsion layers sensitive to a given region of the spectrum.
  • the layers of the element, including the layers of the image-forming units, can be arranged in various orders as known in the art.
  • the emulsions sensitive to each of the three primary regions of the spectrum can be disposed as a single segmented layer, e.g., as by the use of microvessels as described in Whitmore U.S. Patent 4,362,806 issued December 7, 1982.
  • the silver halide emulsions employed in the elements of this invention can be either negative-working or positive-working. Suitable emulsions and their preparation are described in Research Disclosure Sections I and II and the publications cited therein. Suitable vehicles for the emulsion layers and other layers of elements of this invention are described in Research Disclosure Section IX and the publications cited therein.
  • the elements of the invention can include additional couplers as described in Research Disclosure Section VII, paragraphs D, E, F and G and the publications cited therein. These couplers can be incorporated in the elements and emulsions as described in Research Disclosure Section VII, paragraph C and the publications cited therein.
  • the photographic elements of this invention or individual layers thereof can contain brighteners (see Research Disclosure Section V), antifoggants and stabilizers (See Research Disclosure Section VI), antistain agents and image dye stabilizers (see Research Disclosure Section VII, paragraphs I and J), light absorbing and scattering materials (see Research Disclosure Section VIII), hardeners (see Research Disclosure Section XI), plasticizers and lubricants (See Research Disclosure Section XII), antistatic agents (see Research Disclosure Section XIII), matting agents (see Research Disclosure Section XVI) and development modifiers (see Research Disclosure Section XXI).
  • the photographic elements can be coated on a variety of supports as described in Research Disclosure Section XVII and the references described therein.
  • Photographic elements can be exposed to actinic radiation, typically in the visible region of the spectrum, to form a latent image as described in Research Disclosure Section XVIII and then processed to form a visible dye image as described in Research Disclosure Section XIX.
  • Processing to form a visible dye image includes the step of contacting the element with a color developing agent to reduce developable silver halide and oxidize the color developing agent. Oxidized color developing agent in turn reacts with the coupler to yield a dye.
  • Preferred color developing agents useful in the invention are p-phenylene diamines.
  • Preferred color developing agents useful in the invention are 4-amino-N,N-diethyl-aniline hydrochloride, 4-amino-3-methyl-N,N-diethylaniline hydrochloride, 4-amino-3-methyl-N-ethyl-N- ⁇ -(methanesulfonamido)-ethylaniline sulfate hydrate, 4-amino-3-methyl-N-ethyl-N- ⁇ -hydroxyethylaniline sulfate, 4-amino-3- ⁇ -(methanesulfonamido)ethyl-N,N-diethylaniline hydrochloride and 4-amino-N-ethyl-N-(2-methoxyethyl)-m-toluidine di-p-toluenesulfonic acid.
  • the processing step described above gives a negative image.
  • this step can be preceded by development with a non-chromogenic developing agent to develop exposed silver halide, but not form dye, and then uniformly fogging the element to render unexposed silver halide developable.
  • a direct positive emulsion can be employed to obtain a positive image.
  • the polymer latices employed in this invention can be prepared by procedures known in the art and illustrated below. Typically this will be a free radical polymerization leading to an aqueous latex polymer.
  • the resulting polymer typically is a high polymer having a molecular weight above about 1 ⁇ 104.
  • each film segment was sensitometrically exposed through a graduated density test object for 3 seconds and then processed using the Kodak C-41 R process as described in the British Journal of Photography 1982 Annual, pp. 209-211.
  • each element was further treated for 5 minutes in a continuously-stirred, nitrogen-purged bath having the following composition:
  • each sample was reevaluated by another density reading (designated D f ) of the same step on the sensitometric curve.
  • D f another density reading
  • each element contained the coupler C-1, dispersed in half its weight of tricresyl phosphate.
  • Elements 2, 3, 4, and 5 contained the homopolymer consisting of recurring units of the monomer.
  • Each element in this example contained the cyan dye-forming coupler C-1, dispersed in half its weight of dibutylphthalate.
  • Elements 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 contained increasing amounts, as listed in Table 2, of the homopolymer employed in element 5.
  • Elements 13 to 16 contained the cyan dye-forming coupler C-2, incorporated in the silver halide emulsion without a coupler solvent.
  • Elements 17 to 20 contained the cyan dye-forming coupler C-2, dispersed in half its weight of dibutylphthalate.
  • Elements 14-16 and 18-20 contained the homopolymer consisting of recurring units of the monomer
  • Elements 21 to 25 contained the coupler C-1 dispersed in half its weight of tricresyl phosphate.
  • Elements 26 to 31 contained the coupler C-2 dispersed in half its weight of dibutylphthalate.
  • Elements 22 to 25 and elements 27 to 31 contained the copolymer consisting of recurring units of the copolymerized monomers in which the proportion of acid was varied.

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1. Photographisches Element mit einem einen blaugrünen Farbstoff bildenden Kuppler, einer strahlungsempfindlichen Silberhalogenidemulsion und einem Polymerlatex, der von wiederkehrenden, Kupplerreste enthaltenden Einheiten frei ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Polymerlatex wiederkehrende Einheiten aufweist, die sich von einem Monomer ableiten, das durch die folgende Formel (I) dargestellt wird:
Figure imgb0023
in der bedeuten:   m = 1 bis 4 und
    n = 1 bis 10.

2. Photographisches Element nach Anspruch 1, in dem der Polymerlatex ferner wiederkehrende Einheiten enthält, die sich von einem ionischen Monomer der folgenden Formel (II) ableiten:
Figure imgb0024
in der bedeuten:   m = 1 bis 4,
    n = 0 bis 10,
    X, wenn n = 0, gleich ―OH und
    X, wenn n = 1 bis 10 ist, gleich ―CO₂H, ―SO₃H, ―O-PO(OH)₂ oder ein Metallsalz hiervon.

3. Photographisches Element nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, in dem der Polymerlatex in dem Element in einer Konzentration von 0,05 bis 2 g/cm² vorliegt.
4. Photographisches Element nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, in dem der einen blaugrünen Farbstoff bildende Kuppler einer der folgenden Formeln (III) oder (IV) entspricht:
Figure imgb0025
Figure imgb0026
 in der bedeuten:
BALL eine Ballastgruppe;
R¹ Halogen,
R² Wasserstoff, kurzkettiges Alkyl oder kurzkettiges Alkoxy und
Y Wasserstoff oder eine abkuppelnde Gruppe.
5. Photographisches Element nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche mit einer blauempfindlichen, ein gelbes Farbstoffbild liefernden Schichteneinheit, einer grünempfindlichen, ein purpurrotes Farbstoffbild liefernden Schichteneinheit und einer rotempfindlichen, ein blaugrünes Farbstoffbild liefernden Schichteneinheit, in dem der Latex in der einen blaugrünen Farbstoff liefernden Schichteneinheit vorliegt.
6. Verfahren zum Ausbleichen von Silber aus einem photographischen Element mit einem Bildfarbstoff, der sich von einem einen blaugrünen Farbstoff liefernden Kuppler ableitet, bei dem in Gegenwart eines Polymerlatex ausgebleicht wird, der von wiederkehrenden Einheiten mit Kupplerresten frei ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Polymerlatex wiederkehrende Einheiten aufweist, die sich von einem Monomer der Formel (I) ableiten:
Figure imgb0027
in der bedeuten:   m = 1 bis 4 und
    n = 1 bis 10.

7. Verfahren nach Anspruch 6, in dem Polymerlatex ferner wiederkehrende Einheiten enthält, die sich von einem ionischen Monomer der folgenden Formel (II) ableiten:
Figure imgb0028
in der bedeuten:   m = 1 bis 4,
    n = 0 bis 10,
    X, wenn n = 0 ist, gleich ―OH und
    X, wenn n = 1 bis 10 ist, gleich ―CO₂H, ―SO₃H, ―O-PO(OH)₂ oder ein Metallsalz hiervon.

8. Verfahren nach Anspruch 6 oder 7, bei dem das Ausbleichen mit einem Ferrikomplex einer Polycarbonsäure erfolgt.
9. Photographisches Element mit einem blaugrünen Farbstoffbild, das im Rahmen eines Verfahrens erzeugt worden ist, bei dem ein Bleichprozeß nach Anspruch 6 durchgeführt wird.
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