EP0871066A1 - Matériau photographique couleur à l'halogénure d'argent - Google Patents

Matériau photographique couleur à l'halogénure d'argent Download PDF

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EP0871066A1
EP0871066A1 EP98105593A EP98105593A EP0871066A1 EP 0871066 A1 EP0871066 A1 EP 0871066A1 EP 98105593 A EP98105593 A EP 98105593A EP 98105593 A EP98105593 A EP 98105593A EP 0871066 A1 EP0871066 A1 EP 0871066A1
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Heinrich Dr. Odenwälder
Hans Dr. Langen
Jörg Dr. Hagemann
Klaus Henseler
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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
    • G03C7/00—Multicolour photographic processes or agents therefor; Regeneration of such processing agents; Photosensitive materials for multicolour processes
    • G03C7/30—Colour processes using colour-coupling substances; Materials therefor; Preparing or processing such materials
    • G03C7/388—Processes for the incorporation in the emulsion of substances liberating photographically active agents or colour-coupling substances; Solvents therefor
    • G03C7/3882—Processes for the incorporation in the emulsion of substances liberating photographically active agents or colour-coupling substances; Solvents therefor characterised by the use of a specific polymer or latex
    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G03C7/00—Multicolour photographic processes or agents therefor; Regeneration of such processing agents; Photosensitive materials for multicolour processes
    • G03C7/30—Colour processes using colour-coupling substances; Materials therefor; Preparing or processing such materials
    • G03C7/392—Additives
    • G03C7/39208—Organic compounds
    • G03C7/3924—Heterocyclic
    • G03C7/39268—Heterocyclic the nucleus containing only oxygen as hetero atoms
    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G03C7/00—Multicolour photographic processes or agents therefor; Regeneration of such processing agents; Photosensitive materials for multicolour processes
    • G03C7/30—Colour processes using colour-coupling substances; Materials therefor; Preparing or processing such materials
    • G03C7/392—Additives
    • G03C7/396—Macromolecular additives

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  • the invention relates to a color photographic silver halide material with improved Characteristics.
  • So-called white couplers or redox-active are used to solve these tasks Connections used. These are usually pyrazolone couplers with a methyl group in the coupling site or around diffusion-resistant Hydroquinones, disulfonamidophenols and N-aryl-N'-acylhydrazine. These connections but can meet the requirements of practice as described above are not sufficiently fulfilled.
  • Acyl residues R 1 can be residues of an aromatic or aliphatic carboxylic, carbamic, carbonic, sulfonic, sulfinic or phosphoric acid.
  • the incorporation into a polymer chain can take place via an unsaturated group, for example a styrene, acrylic acid or methacrylic acid group.
  • unsaturated group for example a styrene, acrylic acid or methacrylic acid group.
  • a suitable monomer is, for example
  • the compound of formula I can be made to a polymer via a polymer-analogous reaction.
  • a polymer-analogous reaction For example, the following connection be bound to a polymer:
  • R 2 is R 3 and n is m.
  • R 1 is preferably hydrogen or acyl
  • R 2 and R 3 are alkyl, the sum of the C atoms in the alkyl radicals R 2 and R 3 being 8 8.
  • Preferred acyl residues are the residues of aromatic and aliphatic carboxylic acids.
  • the position of the substituents relates to the oxygen.
  • the position is 3 para-constant to the 2nd ring link.
  • the other compounds mentioned are obtained in a corresponding manner. If the reactivity of the phenolic component is reduced, it can be aggravated Reaction conditions become necessary e.g. by increasing the temperature, Increasing the concentration of sulfuric acid in the melt etc. Furthermore, all or part of the sulfuric acid can be replaced by other acids e.g. by p-toluenesulfonic acid, methanesulfonic acid, phosphoric acid, polyphosphoric acid, Phthalic acid, trifluoroacetic acid, boric acid and the like. Like.
  • the compounds of formula (I) are preferably used in an amount of 5 to 1000 mg / m 2 , in particular 10 to 500 mg / m 2 .
  • the compounds of formula (I) can also be present as a salt (phenolate); as Cations are particularly suitable for metal cations and ammonium ions Alkali metal ions and trialkyl or tetraalkylammonium ions.
  • color photographic materials are color negative films, color reversal films, Color positive films, color photographic paper, color reversal photographic paper, color-sensitive materials for the color diffusion transfer process or the silver color bleaching process.
  • the photographic materials consist of a support on which at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer is applied.
  • Suitable as a carrier especially thin films and foils.
  • the color photographic materials usually contain at least one red-sensitive, green sensitive and blue sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and optionally intermediate layers and protective layers.
  • these layers can vary be arranged. This is shown for the most important products:
  • Color photographic films such as color negative films and color reversal films show in in the following order on the carrier 2 or 3 red-sensitive, cyan-coupling silver halide emulsion layers, 2 or 3 green-sensitive, purple-coupling silver halide emulsion layers and 2 or 3 blue-sensitive, yellow-coupling silver halide emulsion layers.
  • the layers same spectral sensitivity differ in their photographic sensitivity, with the less sensitive sub-layers usually closer arranged to the carrier than the higher sensitive sub-layers.
  • a yellow filter layer is applied, which prevents blue light from entering the to get layers below.
  • Color photographic paper which is usually much less sensitive to light as a color photographic film, points in the order given below usually a blue-sensitive, yellow-coupling silver halide emulsion layer on the support, a green sensitive, purple coupling silver halide emulsion layer and a red sensitive, cyan-coupling silver halide emulsion layer on; the yellow filter layer can be omitted.
  • Deviations in the number and arrangement of the photosensitive layers can occur to achieve certain results. For example, you can all highly sensitive layers in one layer package and all low-sensitive layers Layers to another layer package in a photographic film be summarized to increase sensitivity (DE-25 30 645).
  • Essential components of the photographic emulsion layers are binders, Silver halide grains and color couplers.
  • Photographic materials with camera sensitivity usually contain silver bromide or iodide Silver bromide iodide chloride emulsions.
  • Photographic copy materials contain either silver chloride bromide emulsions with up to 80 mol% AgBr or silver chloride bromide emulsions with over 95 mol% AgCl.
  • the maximum absorption of that from the couplers and the color developer oxidation product Dyes formed are preferably in the following areas: Yellow coupler 430 to 460 nm, purple coupler 540 to 560 nm, cyan coupler 630 up to 700 nm.
  • hydrophobic color couplers but also other hydrophobic components of the layers, are usually in high-boiling organic solvents dissolved or dispersed. These solutions or dispersions are then in one emulsified aqueous binder solution (usually gelatin solution) and lie after drying the layers as fine droplets (0.05 to 0.8 ⁇ m diameter) in the layers before.
  • aqueous binder solution usually gelatin solution
  • the usually between layers of different spectral sensitivity arranged non-light-sensitive intermediate layers can contain agents which an undesirable diffusion of developer oxidation products from a photosensitive to another photosensitive layer with different prevent spectral sensitization.
  • Suitable connections can be found in Research Disclosure 37254, Part 7 (1995), p. 292 and in Research Disclosure 37038, Part III (1995), p. 84.
  • the photographic material can also contain UV light-absorbing compounds, whiteners, spacers, filter dyes, formalin scavengers, light stabilizers, antioxidants, D min dyes, additives to improve the stability of dyes, couplers and whites as well as to reduce the color fog, plasticizers (latices), Contain biocides and others.
  • Suitable compounds can be found in Research Disclosure 37254, Part 8 (1995), P. 292 and in Research Disclosure 37038, parts IV, V, VI, VII, X, XI and XIII (1995), p. 84 ff.
  • the layers of color photographic materials are usually hardened, i.e. the binder used, preferably gelatin, is by suitable cross-linked chemical processes.
  • Suitable hardener substances can be found in Research Disclosure 37254, Part 9 (1995), p. 294 and in Research Disclosure 37038, Part XII (1995), page 86.
  • the compounds of formula (I) are in particular in at least one neighboring layer to a green sensitive, containing at least one purple coupler Silver halide emulsion layer used, the silver halide emulsion is a silver bromide chloride emulsion with at least 95 mol% AgCl.
  • a color photographic recording material was produced by applying the following layers in the order given to a support made of paper coated on both sides with polyethylene. The quantities given relate to 1 m 2 . The corresponding amounts of AgNO 3 are given for the silver halide application.
  • Samples 2 to 14 are prepared like sample 1 with the difference that in layers 2, 3, 4 and 5 the compounds Y-1, SC-1, SC-2 and M-1 are replaced by those given in table 1 .
  • the silver coating in layer 4 was reduced to 0.28 g for samples 4 to 9 and to 0.22 g for samples 10 to 14. (V: comparison, E: according to the invention) [amount in mg / m 2 ] Sample No.
  • a color photographic recording material for color negative development was produced (sample 15 - comparison) by applying the following layers in the order given to a transparent layer support made of cellulose triacetate with a thickness of 120 ⁇ m and having an adhesive layer. The amounts are given in g / m 2 . The corresponding amounts of AgNO 3 are given for the silver halide application. All silver halide emulsions were stabilized per 100 g of AgNO 3 with 0.1 g of 4-hydroxy-6-methyl-1,3,3a, 7-tetra-azaindene. The silver halide emulsions are characterized by the halide composition and in terms of grain size by the center of gravity (VSP).
  • VSP center of gravity
  • the colorless and colored couplers were used together with the same Amount of tricresyl phosphate (CPM) according to the emulsification methods known in the art brought in.
  • CPM tricresyl phosphate
  • Samples 16 to 18 differ from sample 15 in that they additionally contain compounds of the formula (I) (g / m 2 ) in layer 1.
  • the samples were then exposed to daylight behind a graduated gray wedge.
  • the materials were then processed according to the process described in E. Ch. Gehret, The British J. of Photography 1974, p. 597.
  • the relative red sensitivity and the bluish-green haze were measured from the samples obtained.
  • the results are shown in Table 3.
  • Samples 19 to 24 differ from sample 15 in that an additional 0.125 mmol of the compounds listed in table 4 / m 2 were used in layer 5. Samples 23 and 24 instead contained white couplers W-1 and W-2 in an amount of 0.125 mmol / m 2 .
  • White coupler W 2 has the formula:

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