US2843491A - 2-mercapto-1, 3, 4-oxadiazoles as antifoggants - Google Patents

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US2843491A
US2843491A US586654A US58665456A US2843491A US 2843491 A US2843491 A US 2843491A US 586654 A US586654 A US 586654A US 58665456 A US58665456 A US 58665456A US 2843491 A US2843491 A US 2843491A
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  • This invention relates to fog-inhibiting agents and stabilizers for photographic emulsions, and to photographic emulsions containing them.
  • Fog depends both on the emulsion and the conditions of development; for a given emulsion it increases with the degree of development. With constant development conditions, it tends to increase with time, temperature and relative humidity of storage conditions; it is common practice to make accelerated tests of the stability of photographic emulsions by storage at increased temperature or humidity, or both. It is, of course, desirable to have emulsions as stable as possible under the conditions of high temperature and humidity which may occur in tropical climates, for example. Fog usually appears over the whole area of the sensitive coating, but when severe, it frequently is non-uniform. Fog may also be caused by exposure to chemicals, for example, hydrogen sulfide and other reactive sulfur compounds, hydrogen peroxide vapor, and strongly reducing materials. While antifoggants and stabilizers may protect, to some extent, against such effects, it is normally understood that an antifoggant protects against spontaneous growth of fog during prolonged storage or storage at high temperatures and humidities, or during development to maximum contrast and speed, or both.
  • an object of our invention to provide a method for stabilizing photographic emulsions.
  • a further object of our invention is to maintain the sensitivity and fog of silver halide emulsions at or close to initial optimum values under keeping conditions of high temperature and humidity.
  • a further object is to provide photographic silver halide emulsions containing antifoggants or stabilizers.
  • R represents a monocyclic aryl group of the benzene series, such as phenyl, o-, mand p-tolyl, o-, mand p-chlorophenyl, m and p-nitrophenyl, o-, mand p-methoxyphenyl, 0-, mand p-ethoxyphenyl, etc. (e. g., a monocyclic aryl group of the benzene series containing from 6 to 8 carbon atoms).
  • the fog inhibitors which we propose to use are added to the emulsion during the process of manufacture, to avoid loss of sensitivity and to inhibit the growth of fog with passage of time under non-ideal conditions of storage.
  • a solution of the compounds of the invention when added in suitable concentration, before coating, to unsensitized, chemically sensitized, or optically sensitized photographic emulsions does not appreciably affect the sensitometric values for sensitivity and fog when measurements are made soon after coating.
  • sensitometric measurements are made at appreciable intervals of time, at elevated temperatures and dry or somewhat humid conditions, these compounds do stabilize photographic speed and maintain fog at a low level.
  • the preparation of silver halide emulsions involves three separate operations: (1) the emulsification and digestion or ripening of the silver halide, (2) the freeing of the emulsion from excess soluble salts, usually by washing, and (3) the second digestion or after-ripening to obtain increased sensitivity.
  • the photographic emulsions used in practicing our invention are generally of the developing-out type; also, it is to be understood that photographic emulsions of varying halide content can advantageously be used.
  • the antifoggant compounds used in our invention have been found particularly useful when employed in conjunction with gelatino-silver bromiodide emulsions, although they can also be advantageously employed for stabilizing other silver halide emulsions, such as gelatino-silver-chloride, bromide, chlorobromide, chlorobromiodide, etc.
  • the emulsions can also be chemically sensitized by any of the accepted procedures.
  • the emulsions can be digested with, naturally active gelatin, or sulfur compounds can be added such as those described in Sheppard U. S.
  • the emulsions can also be treated with salts of the noble metals such as ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, iridium and platinum, all of which belong to group VIII of the periodic table of elements and have an atomic weight greater than 100.
  • Representative compounds are ammonium chloropalladate, potassium chloroplatinate and sodium chloropalladite, which are used for sensitizing in amounts below that which produces any substantial fog inhibition, as described in Smith and Trivelli U. S. Patent 2,448,060, and as antifoggants in higher amounts, as described in Trivelli and Smith U. S. Patents 2,566,245 and 2,566,263.
  • the emulsions can also be chemically sensitized with gold salts as described in Waller and Dodd U. S. Patent 2,399,083, or stabilized with gold salts as described in Damschroder U. S. Patent 2,597,856 and Yutzy and Leermakers U. S. Patent 2,597,915.
  • Suitable compounds are potassium chloroaurite, potassium aurithiocyanate, potassium chloroaurate, auric trichloride and 2- aurosulfobenzothiazole methochloride.
  • the emulsions can also be chemically sensitized with reducing agents such as stannous salts (Carroll U. S. Patent 2,487,850), polyamines such as diethylene triamine (Lowe and Jones U. S. Patent 2,518,698), polyamines, such as spermine (Lowe and Allen U. S. Patent 2,521,925), or bis-(fi-aminoethyl) sulfide and its watersoluble salts (Lowe and Jones U. S. Patent 2,521,926).
  • reducing agents such as stannous salts (Carroll U. S. Patent 2,487,850), polyamines such as diethylene triamine (Lowe and Jones U. S. Patent 2,518,698), polyamines, such as spermine (Lowe and Allen U. S. Patent 2,521,925), or bis-(fi-aminoethyl) sulfide and its watersoluble salts (Lowe and Jones U. S. Patent 2,521,926).
  • the emulsions can also be stabilized with the mercury compounds of Allen, Byers and Murray U. S. Patent 2,728,663, Carroll and Murray U. S. Patent 2,728,664, and Leubner and Murray U. S. Patent 2,728,665.
  • the stabilizing combinations of oxadiazoles are effective in the presence or absence of optical sensitizing dyes. Since optical sensitizing may affect stability of emulsions with respect to sensitivity, fog and latent image changes, the action of the compounds of this invention is not completely independent of optical sensitizing or other emulsion variables. We have found, however, that both un-sensitized emulsions and emulsions sensitized with cyanine or merocyanine dyes, or both, can be treated with oxadiazoles according to our invention.
  • the antifoggant and stabilizing action was determined by incubation of the emulsions for one week at a temperature of 120 F. and constant relative humidity (obtained by placing the emulsions in closed containers, the ambient temperature being about 70 F. and relative humidity about 55 percent prior to sealing the containers).
  • the efficiency of the various antifoggants was determined by measuring the speed, gamma and fog of the incubated emulsions containing an antifoggant and comparing these measurements with those of the same batch of emulsion before incubation. ments were made with a photographic emulsion containing no antifoggant both before and after incubation.
  • test films were exposed on an intensity scale sensitometer and developed for 5 minutes in a developer having the following composition:
  • Suitable dispersing agents for the silver halide emulsions stabilized according to our invention comprise gelatin, or other colloids, such as collodion, albumen, cellulose organic derivatives, synthetic resins, etc.
  • the optimum amount of fog-inhibiting agent can be determined by making the customary tests employed in the emulsion making.
  • the optimum amount for a given emulsion will vary depending on the presence of emulsion addenda, such as chemical sensitizers, optical sensitizers, etc.
  • emulsion addenda such as chemical sensitizers, optical sensitizers, etc.
  • the antifoggants of our invention function advantageously in acid or alkaline photographic silver halide emulsions. In alkaline emulsions, Water-soluble salts of the compounds of Formula I above are formed to some extent, although this action does not deleteriously affect the antifoggant action of these compounds.
  • the compounds represented by Formula I above can be employed not only in conventional photographic silver halide emulsions as described above, but they can be employed in other image-forming layers, such as those customarily used in solvent-transfer processes, wherein the image-receiving layer containing a compound of Formula I is placed in contact with an image-transferring layer, 1such as a silver halide emulsion dispersed in a stripping 'ayer.
  • R represents a monocyclic aryl group of the benzene series.
  • R represents a monocyclic aryl group of the benzene series containing from 6 to 8 carbon atoms.

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US3150166A (en) * 1959-11-12 1964-09-22 Basf Ag Stabilized polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomers
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US3051570A (en) * 1958-10-01 1962-08-28 Gen Aniline & Film Corp Antifoggants and stabilizers for photographic silver halide emulsions
US3150166A (en) * 1959-11-12 1964-09-22 Basf Ag Stabilized polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomers
US3099209A (en) * 1960-02-26 1963-07-30 Eastman Kodak Co Process of treating residual positive silver halide images with organic sulfur to render said images oleophilic
DE1226877B (de) * 1961-12-08 1966-10-13 Du Pont Photographische Silberhalogenidemulsion
US3362826A (en) * 1963-04-27 1968-01-09 Agfa Ag Photographic paper containing yellow fog-preventing agents
US4088494A (en) * 1974-09-20 1978-05-09 Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. Sulfur-sensitized AgX emulsion containing cubic AgX grains and a mercaptan sensitizer
EP0243168A2 (en) 1986-04-22 1987-10-28 Konica Corporation Method for processing silver halide photo-sensitive material
EP0255402A2 (en) * 1986-07-31 1988-02-03 Konica Corporation Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material suitable for rapid processes
EP0255783A2 (en) * 1986-07-31 1988-02-10 Konica Corporation Light-sensitive silver halide photographic material feasible for rapid processing
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