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US3489566A
US3489566A US523939A US3489566DA US3489566A US 3489566 A US3489566 A US 3489566A US 523939 A US523939 A US 523939A US 3489566D A US3489566D A US 3489566DA US 3489566 A US3489566 A US 3489566A
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  • sion layer adjacent to the support is generally red sensitive.
  • the yellow filter layer located between the blue and green sensitive layers serves to absorb the blue radiation which may be transmitted through the blue-sensitive layer to the underlying layers which are sensitive to the blue region of the spectrum in addition to the red or green regions of the spectrum.
  • Some of these subject multilayer photographic elements contain additional silver halide emulsion layers for specialized purposes. In photographic print material, frequently the yellow filter layer is omitted and the arrangement of silver halide emulsion layers may be changed for the purpose of obtaining more accurate recording of the color negative.
  • Multilayer materials of the type which can be used in the present invention have been previously described in the prior art, such as Mannes et al., US. Patent 2,252,718, issued Aug. 19, 1941.
  • Color material of the type employed in the present invention includes those which are intended primarily for reversal color process in which the exposed material is given a conventional black-and-White negative development, followed by a reversal re-exposure or exposures and finally color development.
  • phenolic or naphtholic couplers are used to produce the cyan dye
  • open chain di-B-ketone couplers are generally used for producing yellow-dye images
  • 2-pyrazolin-5-one couplers generally are used to produce the magenta dye images.
  • the dye image is produced by contacting the reversal exposed silver halide With an aqueous alkaline developer solution containing a primary aromatic amine color developing agent in the presence of the appropriate color forming coupler.
  • balancing developing agents serve two functions in general, first, such balancing developing agents act as antioxidants and they 3,489,566 Patented Jan. 13, 1970 frequently react with oxidized color developers through a cross-oxidation reaction which regenerates the desired color developing agents; secondly, such balancing developing agents react directly with the exposed silver halide as an auxiliary developing agent.
  • the desired effect of using such balancing developing agents is to improve the photographic quality, for example, to decrease high light stain and/ or to improve the sensitometric curve shape for the developed dye image.
  • N,N-diethylhydroxyl amine as a balancing developing agent in color developers.
  • the use of this material produces valuable im provements in the photographic quality of the dye images produced; and although this compound produces no detrimental efiect on the stability of the cyan and yellow color developer solutions, its presence in the magenta developer solution results in the destruction of substantial quantities of magenta couplers. This has made it necessary to increase the concentration of the coupler and the color developing agent in the replenisher solution used to maintain the desired concentration of these chemicals in the magenta color developer solution tank during continuous processing of color material.
  • magenta color developer composition comprising (1) a 2-pyrazolin-S-one magenta-dye-forming coupler, (2) a water-soluble amine having the formula:
  • R represents hydrogen or a lower alkyl group, preferably, having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms such as methyl, ethyl, propyl, etc., and water soluble acid salts of said amine, and (3) a compound having the formula:
  • R and R represent the same or different lower alkyl groups having preferably from 1 to 3 carbon atoms, e.g., methyl, ethyl, propyl, etc., and water-soluble acid salts of said compounds.
  • Typical examples of compounds of Formula I include: hydroxylamine, ethylhydroxylamine, methylhydroxylamine, propylhydroxylamine, etc.
  • Water soluble acid salts of compounds of Formula I are also used to advantage. It is understood, of course, that the acid used in making these salts preferably should not have any detrimental effect on photographic process or photographic material being processed. Included among the acid salts used to advantage are: sulfates, oxalates, chlorides, phosphates, carbonates, acetates, etc.
  • Typical compounds of Formula II include N,N-diethylhydroxylamine, N ethyl-N-methylhydroxylamine, N- ethyl-N-propyl hydroxylamine, N,N-dimethylhydroxylamine, N,N-dipropylhydroxylamine, etc.
  • Water soluble acid salts of compounds of Formula II are also used to advantage. These salts include any of the acid anions listed above.
  • magenta-forming couplers Any of the Well-known 2-pyrazolin-5-one magentaforming couplers are used to advantage in my compositions. These magenta-forming couplers may contain any of the substituents commonly used on the 1, 3 and 4-positions providing, of course, that any substituent on the 4- position is displaced by reaction with oxidized color developing agent to form the image dye. These couplers include those represented by the formula l-p-sec.
  • amylbenzoylamino)-2-pyrazolin-5-one 1-phenyl-3 -diamylbenzoylamino-Z-pyrazolin-S -one 1- 2,4, 6-trichlorophenyl) -3 (4-nitroanilino) -2- pyrazolin-S-one 1-phenyl-3 -/3-naphthoylamino-2-pyrazolin-5 -one 1-phenyl-3 -phenylcarb amylamino-2-pyrazolin-5 -one 1-phenyl-3 -palmitylamino-2-pyrazolin-5 -one 1-phenyl-3-benzenesulfonylamino-2-pyrazolin-5-one 1- (p-phenoxyphenyl) -3 (p-tert.
  • amylphenoxy propionamido] -2-pyrazolin-5-one 1-(2',5'-dichloro)-3-[3"-(4"-tert. amylphenoxy) benzamido] -2-pyrazolin-5-one 1-(2',4',6'-tribromophenyl)-3-[3"(4"'-tert. amylphenoxy benzamido] -2-pyrazolin-5-one 1-(2,5'-dichlorophenyl)-3-[3"-'(2"',4'-di-tert. amylphenoxyacetamido)benzamido] -2-pyrazolin-5-one.
  • the compounds of Formula I can be utilized in various concentrations depending upon the concentration of the balancing developer used, the concentration of the color developer, etc. In general, I have found that from about 0.10 to 2 g./liter of the compounds of Formula I are satisfactory for the purposes of my invention, the preferred concentration ranges being from about 0.4 to about 0.6 g./liter.
  • the compounds of Formula II are used to advantage over concentration ranges of from about 0.5 to about 5 g./1iter with a preferred range of from about 2.5 to about 3.1.
  • the magenta coupler and color developer can be used over wide ranges of concentrations; however, usually the magenta coupler is used in the range from about 0.5 to about 2.9 g./liter and the color developing agent from about 0.8 to about 5 g./liter.
  • the most advantageous concentration for the components of my magenta developing composition can be determined by developing a series of test strips of silver halide emulsion in developers having variations in the concentration of the coupler, the compounds of Formula I and the compounds of Formula II. This technique is well known in the art and need not be discussed further.
  • the usual addenda can be employed in the developers, such as strong alkaline agents (e.g., sodium carbonate and sodium hydroxide), restraining agents (e.g., potassium bromide, potassium iodide, etc.), stain inhibitors, preservatives and antioxidants such as alkali metal sulfites, etc.
  • compositions of my invention are used to advantage to prepare magenta-color-forming developer solutions used in the color processing of exposed multilayer, multicolor photographic elements.
  • the elements contain gelatino-silver halide developing out emulsions, gelatinosilver chloride, -chlorobromide, -chl0roiodide, -chlorobromoiodide, -bromide, and -bromoiodide developing out emulsions.
  • emulsions are coated in the usual manner on any suitable support, e.g., glass, cellulose nitrate film, cellulose ester film, polyvinyl ester resin film, paper, metal, etc.
  • the silver halide emulsion layers may also contain such addenda as chemical sensitizers, e.g., sulfur sensitizers (e.g., allylthiocarbamide, thiourea, allylthiocyanate, cystine, etc.), various gold compounds (e.g., potassium chloroaurate, auric trichloride, etc.), (U.S. Patents 2,540,085; 2,597,856; 2,597,915), various azaindene compounds (such as, those discussed in US. Patent 2,716,062), condensation products of alkylene oxides, such as those shown in US. Patent 2,400,032 as well as the additives mentioned in Jones et al., U.S. Patent 2,937,089.
  • chemical sensitizers e.g., sulfur sensitizers (e.g., allylthiocarbamide, thiourea, allylthiocyanate, cystine, etc.), various gold compounds (e.g
  • My magenta-forming color developer solutions are used to advantage in color processes involving the successive steps of a negative black-and-white development usually accomplished with a black-and-white hydroquinone and p-methylaminophenyl sulfate black-andwhite developer, washing, selective re-exposure of the red-sensitive layer, cyan color development with an aqueous alkaline solution containing a primary aromatic amine color developing agent and a cyan coupler, washing, selective re-exposure of the blue-sensitive layer, yellow color development in an aqueous alkaline solution containing a primary aromatic amine color developing agent, a yellow-forming coupler, washing, exposure to white light, color development with my color developer, washing, bleaching in a conventional ferricyanide bleach, fixing in a conventional alkali metal thiosulfate fixing bath, washing and drying.
  • the process may include a prehardener bath containing Formalin-bisulfite, followed by Water wash preceding the black-and-white development step. Also the process may include a reversal auxiliary bath containing a chemical fogging agent, such as, an alkali metal borohydride, and an auxiliary developing agent in place of the exposure to white light.
  • a chemical fogging agent such as, an alkali metal borohydride
  • My magneta color developing solutions may contain any of the well-known primary aromatic amino color developers, such as the p-phenylene diamines including the alkylphenylene diamines and alkyl toluene diamines. These developing agents are usually used in the salt form such as the hydrochloride or sulfates which are more stable than amines. The p-aminophenols and their substitution products may also be used where the amine group is unsubstituted.
  • primary aromatic amino color developers such as the p-phenylene diamines including the alkylphenylene diamines and alkyl toluene diamines.
  • These developing agents are usually used in the salt form such as the hydrochloride or sulfates which are more stable than amines.
  • the p-aminophenols and their substitution products may also be used where the amine group is unsubstituted.
  • color developing agents include such typical examples as Z-amino-S-diethylamino toluene hydrochloride, N ethyl-B-methanesulfonamidoethyl, 4 aminoaniline sulfate, 4 amino- N,N diethyl 3 methylanilino hydrochloride, 4- amino N ethyl N(fi methanesulfonamidoethyl), m-toluene sesquisulfatemonohydrate, 3 methyl-p-aminodiethylanilino sulfate, 4 amino N ethyl N -(fi-hydroxyethyl)anilino sulfate, N,N-dirnethyl-p-phenylenediamine hydrochloride, etc.
  • EXAMPLE 1 Light-image-exposed multilayer, multicolor photographic material comprising a support coated in succession with a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a bleachable yellow filter layer and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer that had been given conventional pre-hardening in a formaldehyde-bisulfite pre-hardener, washed, negative developed in a convention hydroquinone p-methylaminophenol sulfate developing solution, washed, exposed through the support to a red light to expose the undeveloped, unexposed silver halide in the red-sensitive layer, cyan developed in a conventional aqueous alkaline color developing solution containing a cyan-forming coupler and a primary aromatic amine color developing agent, water washed, given blue light exposure to the top blue-sensitive layer to expose the unexposed silver halide in that layer, developed in a conventional aqueous alkaline yellow color developer
  • Example 1 was repeated using an aqueous alkaline magenta color developer containing from about 2.5 to about 3.1 g./liter of N,N-diethylhydroxylamine,'from about .4 to about .6 g./liter of hydroxylamine, from about 1.5 to about 1.7 g./liter of the magenta coupler used in Example 1 and from about 1 gram to about 1.5 g./liter of the color developing agent used in Example 1. The results were good being comparable to those obtained in Example 1.
  • Example 2 was repeated using the magenta coupler 1 (2,4,6 trichlorophenyl) 3 (4 nitroanilino) 2- pyrazolin-S-one in place of the magenta coupler used in Examples 1 and 2. Good image reproductions were obtained in the processed film which had good magenta D-maxes comparable to those of Examples 1 and 2. Used magenta developers from Examples 1 through 4 were noticeably cleaner than prior art developers. Magenta coupler recovered from the immediate used developer solutions was found to be .purer than previously.
  • Example 3 was repeated excepting that the magenta coupler 3 (4 cyanoanilino)-1-(2,4,6-trichlorophenyl)-2- pyrazolin-S-one was used in place of the magenta coupler used in Examples 1 and 2.
  • the results showed good image reproductions in which magenta D-maxes were obtained that were comparable to those from the preceding examples.
  • magenta color developers containing from about 0.1 to about 2 g./ liter of other compounds of Formula I, from about 0.5 to about 5 g./liter of other compounds of Formula II and from about 0.5 to about 2.5 g./liter of any other magenta-colorforming couplers, and from about 0.8 to about 5 g./liter of other color developing agents Will give good magenta color development.
  • My magenta developer can be used to advantage over a wide range of processing conditions such as, temperature, time, etc.
  • the optimum conditions are determined by methods well known in the art.
  • replenisher solutions are so designed that their continuous addition to the respective tanks during the operation will compensate for the use of the various color developing agents, couplers, etc. by the color photographic material being processed and by aerial oxidation or other undesirable side reactions.
  • the unobvious advantages obtained by use of my magenta developer compositions are illustrated by the following table.
  • the table shows the magenta replenisher concentrations which were required to maintain the optimum concentrations in a magenta color developer tank containing no compound of Formula I as compared to the concentrations required in a replenisher containing a compound of Formula I that were required to maintain the optimum concentrations in a magenta color developer tank containing a compound of Formula I (based on prolonged continuous operation).
  • magenta color developer compositions In addition to these very important savings in the chemicals shown above from use of my magenta developer compositions, there are other important technical advances accomplished. For example, the immediate process gives more uniform magenta development resulting in improved photographic color quality. The magenta color developer solutions remain substantially cleaner during use than previously so the processed photographic material is cleaner and the processing machine tanks do not need to be cleaned as frequently. Furthermore, magenta coupler is recovered from my used magenta color developer solutions in a much purer form, and in higher yields than was possible from other used magenta developer solutions. It is not obvious that my magenta color developer compositions would provide these and other important technical advances.
  • An aqueous alkaline photographic developing solution comprising (1) a primary aromatic amino color developing agent,
  • component (3) is N,N-diethylhydroxylamine.
  • component (3) is N,N-diethylhydroxylamine and component (4) is hydroxylamine sulfate.
  • component (2) is 3-(2,4-dichloroanilino)-1-(2,4,6-trichlorophenyl)-2-pyrazolin-5-one
  • component (3) is N,N- diethylhydroxylamine
  • component (4) is hydroxylamine sulfate.
  • component (1) is present in an amount of from about 0.8 to about 5 grams per liter
  • component (2) is present in an amount of from about 0.5 to about 2.9 grams per liter
  • component (3) is present in an amount of from about 0.5 to about 5 grams per liter
  • component (4) is present in an amount of from about 0.1 to about 2 grams per liter.
  • aqueous alkaline photographic developing solution comprising a primary aromatic amino color developing agent, a magenta-dye-forming 2-pyrazolin-5-one color coupler, and a member selected from the group consisting of compounds of the formula and their water-soluble salts, wherein R and R each represent a lower alkyl group, and (4) a member selected from the group consisting of hydroxylamine and water-soluble salts thereof.
  • corn ponent (3) is N,N-diethylhydroxylamine.
  • component 3) is N,N-diethylhydroxylamine and component (4) is hydroxylamine sulfate.

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