US3305364A - Non-silver halide reducing sulfonamide buffers for photographic developing solutions - Google Patents

Non-silver halide reducing sulfonamide buffers for photographic developing solutions Download PDF

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US3305364A
US3305364A US306304A US30630463A US3305364A US 3305364 A US3305364 A US 3305364A US 306304 A US306304 A US 306304A US 30630463 A US30630463 A US 30630463A US 3305364 A US3305364 A US 3305364A
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  • This invention relates to buffers for photographic developers and to photographic developers containing them. It is well known that the development activity of a particular photographic developer is greatly influenced by the alkalinity of the developer solution. Different developing agents naturally require different levels of pH for optimum development activity. However, the rate of development for many photographic developers depends also on the stability of the pH level of the solution. Therefore, it is evident that to obtain consistent development, the pH of the developing solution should advantageously be kept constant. The pH of the developer also should advantageously be maintained at a high level to obtain a high rate of development. The pH of the developing solution is usually kept constant by the addition of a buffer. Heretofore, many available buffers in the region of pH 913 had certain defects.
  • the phosphate ion for example, is one of the best available buffers in this pH re gion but it leads to the precipitation of calcium phosphate, when calcium is present in the water or chemicals used in the developing solution.
  • a further object is to provide novel photographic developing solutions containing buffers.
  • photographic developing solutions are maintained at a high and more constant pH level by the use of a water-soluble, non-silver halide reducing sulfonamide.
  • a water-soluble, non-silver halide reducing sulfonamide can be represented by the following general formula:
  • R represents an alkyl group, such as methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, isobutyl, B-hydroxyethyl, etc. (e.g., an alkyl group containing from 1 to carbon atoms), or an aryl group, such as phenyl, 0-, mand p-tolyl, p-carboxyphenyl, p-sulfophenyl, etc.
  • R represents an alkylene group, such as methylene, ethylene, etc.
  • In and 11 each represents a positive integer of from 1 to 2, and R represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group (e.g., an alkyl group as defined above for R) or an aryl group (e.g., an aryl group as defined above for R), when n is 1, and R represents an alkyl group (e.g., an alkyl group as defined above for R) or an aryl group (e.g., an aryl group as defined above for R) when nis 2.
  • Example I N ethylmethanesulfonamide, C H NHSO CH was prepared from methanesulfonylchloride and ethylamine.
  • methanesulfonylchloride to 500 ml. of benzene in a l-liter round-bottomed flask equipped with dropping funnel, condenser and stirrer. Cool this mixture to 0' C. in an ice bath.
  • N-(B-hydroxyet-hyl)methanesulfonamide can be prepared by substituting fi-amino ethanol in place of the ethylamine indicated in Example 1.
  • pcarboxybenzenesulfonamide can be prepared by reacting p-cyanobenzenesulfonylchloride with ammonia and hydrolyzing the resultant p-cyanobenzenesulfonamide.
  • the p-cyanobenzenesulfonylchloride can be prepared by the reaction of cyanobenzene with sulfo-chloride.
  • the water-soluble sulfonamide buffers of the present invention are intended for use with developing solutions having a pH in the range of about 9.0'130
  • the developing agents used with the buffers of our invention include the well known black and white or color developing agents, such as the phenylenediamines, including the N- alkylphe-nylenediamines and N-alkyltoluenediamines as well as the p-aminophenols, such as p-aminophenol, N- methyl-p-aminophenol, etc., hydroquinone, the 3-pyrazolidones, e.g., 1-phenyl-3-pyrazolidone, etc.
  • Developing compounds containing an amino group are usually used in the form of the hydrochloride or the sulfate.
  • the amount of these water-soluble sulfonamides to be added to the developing solution will vary somewhat depending-upon the particular developing agent employed and amounts of other ingredients present. In general, we have found that from about .1 to about 200 g. of the buffer per liter of the developing solution is suitable for the purpose of our invention, with a preferred range of from about 1 to about 100 g. of the buffer per liter of the developing solution.
  • the usual addenda can be employed in the developers, such as restrainers (such as potassium bromide), stain preventives, such as alkali metal sulfites, sequestering agents, such as ethylenediamine tetracetic acid, 1,3-diamino-2-propanol tetracetic acid, tetrasodium salt, etc.
  • restrainers such as potassium bromide
  • stain preventives such as alkali metal sulfites
  • sequestering agents such as ethylenediamine tetracetic acid, 1,3-diamino-2-propanol tetracetic acid, tetrasodium salt, etc.
  • Example 2 a multilayer color film of the type described in Tong U.S. Patent 2,772,163, was exposed on an intensity scale sensitometer (Kodak Type 1b) and developed for minutes at 68 F. in conventional developers containing conventional buffers. Additional test films were similarly exposed and developed in the same conventional developer, but with the conventional buffer replaced by a water-soluble sulfonamide butter.
  • Kodak Type 1b intensity scale sensitometer
  • Example 2 This example illustrates the use of N-ethylmethanesulfonamide in a color developer of the following composition:
  • the regular buffering agent Na PO 12H O and the development accelerator ethylenediamine were replaced by N-ethylmethanesulfonamide.
  • the densities of blue D indicating the yellow dye yields which are critical for this type film and development, for film developed in these developers were 3.90 for the conventional developer and 3.95 for the modified developer.
  • the N-ethylmethanesulfonamide buffered developer also avoids what might be a serious dirt problem.
  • the phosphate ion will precipitate insoluble calcium phosphate when hard water is used to make the developer, while the calcium salt of the sulfonamide is soluble.
  • the buffer capacities of the phosphate and N-ethylmethanesulfonamide are compared in Table I below.
  • the buffer capacity is defined as dpH where dA is a differential addition of an acid to the developer and dpH is the change in pH resulting thereby.
  • Example 3 This example compares the use of methanesulfonamide with the regularly used sodium carbonate buffer in a developer of the following formula:
  • the color-forming compounds can be incorporated in the photographic emulsions, as shown in Tong U. S. Patent 2,772,163. Typical color-forming compounds which are primarily useful for use in photographic emulsions are described in Spath U.S. Patent 2,860,976.
  • the buffers of our invention can also be used in color photographic processes where the color couplers are contained in the developing compositions. Typical examples of couplers which are suitable for use in color developers are described in Schwan et a1. U.S. Patent 3,068,097.
  • a photographic developer composition containing a photographic silver halide developing agent and a watersoluble, non-silver halide reducing sulfonamide buffer.
  • a photographic developer composition containing a photographic silver halide developing agent and a watersoluble, non-silver halide reducing sulfonamide buffer of the following formula:
  • R represents an alkylene group
  • R represents a member selected from the class consisting of an alkyl group and an aryl group
  • R when n is 1, represents a member selected from the class consisting of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group and an aryl group
  • R when n is 2 represents a member selected from the class consisting of an alkyl group and an aryl group.
  • a photographic developer composition containing a photographic silver halide developing agent and a water soluble, non-silver halide reducing sulfonamide buffer of the following formula:
  • a photographic developer composition containing a photographic silver halide developing agent and a watersoluble, non-silver halide reducing sulfonamide buffer of the following formula:
  • R and R each represents a member selected from the class consisting of an alkyl group and an aryl group.
  • a photographic developer composition containing a photographic silver halide developing agent and a watersoluble, non-silver halide reducing sulfonamide buffer of the following formula:

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US4590154A (en) * 1984-05-04 1986-05-20 Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. Heat developable color photographic light-sensitive material containing sulfonamide
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US4590154A (en) * 1984-05-04 1986-05-20 Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. Heat developable color photographic light-sensitive material containing sulfonamide
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