US2518710A - Lumazines and alloxazines as catalysts in dye bleach baths for color photography - Google Patents

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US2518710A
US2518710A US17574A US1757448A US2518710A US 2518710 A US2518710 A US 2518710A US 17574 A US17574 A US 17574A US 1757448 A US1757448 A US 1757448A US 2518710 A US2518710 A US 2518710A
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    • G03PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03CPHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIALS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES; PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, e.g. CINE, X-RAY, COLOUR, STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES; AUXILIARY PROCESSES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
    • G03C7/00Multicolour photographic processes or agents therefor; Regeneration of such processing agents; Photosensitive materials for multicolour processes
    • G03C7/28Silver dye bleach processes; Materials therefor; Preparing or processing such materials

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  • This invention relates to a method of processing photographic color pictures, and particularly to lumazines and alloxazines as accelerators for dye bleach baths used in producing dyestufi images from dyed silver images.
  • the bleach baths employed in thisprocess, consist of an aqueous solution of a mineral acid or a mineral acid containing an alkali halide, such as potassium iodide, ammonium chloride, or both.
  • an alkali halide such as potassium iodide, ammonium chloride, or both.
  • Such baths require-a relatively long treating time so as to destroy the dyestnfi present in situ with the silver image.
  • Long treatment in bleaching solutions of high acidity has the tendency to soften the gelatin of. the photographic emulsion containing a silver image and bleachable azo dye.
  • a mineral acid or containing an alkali halide such as potassium iodide, ammonium chloride, or both.
  • Such baths require-a relatively long treating time so as to destroy the dyestnfi present in situ with the silver image.
  • Long treatment in bleaching solutions of high acidity has the tendency to soften the gelatin of. the photographic emulsion containing a silver
  • the most practical catalysts so far suggested are the azines, such as phenazine, 2,3-diaminophenazine, and the like; Although -phenazine and its substituted products are effective as accelerators, they are highly colored substances and are substantive to gelatin, i. leave a stain in the gelatin layer which is diflicult to remove, and, which seriously aflects the quality of the final image.
  • R and R1 which may be alike or difierent, represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl or aryl group, e. g., methyl, ethyl, propyl, etc., phenyl, naphthy-l, and. the like
  • Hg and R3 represent hydrogen or a methyl group
  • R'zalways being hydrogen when R3 is methyl and R3 always being hydrogen when R2 is methyl
  • Z represents the atoms necessary to complete an aromatic or heterocyclic ring, or ring system, e. g., benzene, naphthalene, anthracene, phenanthrene, pyridine, pyrimidine, and the like.
  • aromatic and heterocyolic rings may be substituted in the various positions by one or more a kyl groups of the same value as R and R1, amino, phenyl, sulfanilamido, or .fused on a tetrahydrobenzene radical.
  • rlumazines and alloxazine's are generally prepared by the condensation of an o-phenylenediamine or its homologues and alloxan.
  • Lumarine lsipre ared accordin 'to the method iie'scr-ibed 1m J. :Amer. Chem. so'c. 67, 802, K1945) 'byihea'ting :glyoxalbisulfite and iifi-dianiino-ZG- iiihydroxypyriniidine together for 5 minutes ate temperature of 330'
  • the methyl or phenyl substituted lumazi-ne's can be obtained firom ketoaldehydes, such as methylglyoxal or phenylglyoxal.
  • the di-substitiltedderivatives can be obtained from dike'tones, sochdiacetyl or benzil.
  • the lumaizine's and alloxazines may "be employed "in any mineral acid bleach bath, such as, tor example, “hydrochloric, hydrobromi'c, hyilrioiiic or phosphoric acid, with or without the presence of "an alkali halide, such as sodium or potassium bromide or iodide, sodium chloride, ammonium chloridayand-theilke.
  • concentration of the acid .to be employed is dependent upon "the character of the gelatin constituting the photographic color emulsion layer or layers. Usually, the concentration of .the acid ranges 11p to 2 N. I prefer, howeverfto employ a'conce'ntration not higher than normal.
  • the .amount'employed catalyst is not critical.
  • .Anamount as small as 0.005 gram per liter ofbleach bath shows an appreciable bleaching action in silver bearing images. 'For practical purposes, amounts ranging from "0.005 to 2.6 grams -per liter-of bleach bath may be employed.
  • any one-of the lumazines andallox'az'ines disclosed and contemplated herein may be employed in any mineral acid bleach hath, I .-prefer, however, to employ the alloxazines shown in illustrations 1-, -2, 4, 5, -8 to 14. and 18 to 24 'b'eof their general availability and ease 'df preparation.
  • the ffollowin'g examples will illustrate the ⁇ preparationof a multi-layer color film, in which after exposure, the dye images are obtained by the silver dye bleach process, and .the bleach Uaths contaming the a'lloxazi'n'es as accelerators,
  • EXAMPLE 1 kilograms of a wet ge atin'o sllverhalide emulsion, containing about 10% gelatin, 475% of silver-bromoiodide, zl0 cc. ofa 10% solution of sap'oniil, and '10 grams of diphenyl biguanide hydrochloride, were separated'irito three equal portions of .1 kilograms each and utilized in the preparation of the final red, green, and blue sensitive emuls ons.
  • Red sensitive To the first portion of a red sensitized wet gelatinosil-ver-halide emulsion there were added 5 grams of a rbleachable cyan dye, Direct Sky Blue -.(C.-I. #520) Green sensitive *I'o the'second portion of a green sensitized wet gelatino silver-halide emulsion there were added 1.25 grams of a bleachable magenta dye," Fast Acid Magenta B (C. I. #30).
  • Example II (a) Hydrochloric acid, conc cc 100 Potassium bromide grams 100 Water to make liter 1 '8 EXAMPLE II The bleaching treatment of Example I was repeated on the same fixed color"*film strips, with the exception that lumazine was substituted for alloxazine with similar results.
  • EXAMPLE III A halogen silver-bearing layer colored with diamine pure blue FF (Schultz Farbslofitabellen 1931, 7th ed. #308) was treated with a bleach solution of the following composition:
  • a dye bleach bath for producing a colored image in a photographic emulsion layer containing a bleachable azo dye and a silver image consisting of an aqueous solution of hydrochloric acid, ammonium chloride, potassium iodide and an accelerating amount of an agent selected from the group consisting of lumazines and alloxazines corresponding to the following general formulae:
  • R and R1 represent a member selected from the class consisting of hydrogen, alkyl and aryl groups
  • R2 and R3 represent a member selected from the class consisting of hydrogen and methyl group, R2 always being hydrogen when R: is methyland R3 always being hydrogen when R2 is methyl
  • Z represents the atoms necessary'to complete a member selected from the class consisting of aromatic and heterocyclic ring systems's- 2.
  • R C O l R1 /NH N C and wherein R and R1 represent a member selected from the class consisting of hydrogen, alkyl and 10 aryl groups, R2 and R3 represent a member selected from the class consisting of hydrogen and methyl group, R2 always being hydrogen when R3 is methyl and R3 always being hydrogen when R2 is methyl, and Z represents the atoms necessary to complete a member selected from the class consisting of aromatic and heterocyclic ring systems.

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GB4278/49A GB657374A (en) 1948-03-27 1949-02-16 Lumazines and alloxazines as catalysts in dye bleach baths for color photography
CH279649D CH279649A (fr) 1948-03-27 1949-03-21 Bain décolorant pour la photographie en couleurs.
CH285166D CH285166A (fr) 1948-03-27 1949-03-21 Procédé pour la production d'images colorées à partir d'images argentiques teintes.
DEP37726A DE825206C (de) 1948-03-27 1949-03-25 Farbbleichbad fuer die Herstellung von farbigen Bildern in photographischen Emulsionsschichten
FR983723D FR983723A (fr) 1948-03-27 1949-03-26 Emploi des lumazines et des alloxazines comme catalyseurs dans les bains décolorants pour la photographie en couleurs

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US3278303A (en) * 1961-12-20 1966-10-11 Ciba Ltd Process for the preparation of multicolored images by the silver dyestuff bleaching method

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US2145960A (en) * 1936-10-27 1939-02-07 Wheatley Christopher Wi Crouch Color photography
US2270118A (en) * 1936-12-14 1942-01-13 Chromogen Inc Production of colored photographic pictures
US2410025A (en) * 1936-12-14 1946-10-29 Chromogen Inc Production of colored photographic pictures
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