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• • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
  • C09—DYES; PAINTS; POLISHES; NATURAL RESINS; ADHESIVES; COMPOSITIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • C09B—ORGANIC DYES OR CLOSELY-RELATED COMPOUNDS FOR PRODUCING DYES, e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; LAKES
  • C09B23/00—Methine or polymethine dyes, e.g. cyanine dyes
  • C09B23/02—Methine or polymethine dyes, e.g. cyanine dyes the polymethine chain containing an odd number of >CH- or >C[alkyl]- groups
  • C09B23/06—Methine or polymethine dyes, e.g. cyanine dyes the polymethine chain containing an odd number of >CH- or >C[alkyl]- groups three >CH- groups, e.g. carbocyanines

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• R represents a halogen atom or a lower alkyl or amino group
• R and R are the same or different and represent lower alkyl groups containing at least two carbon atoms
• one of R and R is a sulphoalkyl group of the formula -(Cl-l ),,SO H where n is an integer from 1 to 6, and the other of R and R, is the same or different said sulphoalkyl group or is an alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, aralkyl, carboxy-substituted aralkyl, or carboxysubstituted alkyl group, an acylsulphamoyl alkyl group of the formula -(CH ),,SO NHCOR or an alkyl or aralkyl sulfamoyl alkyl group of the formula -(CH ),,SO NHR, where n in the last two
• PHOTOGRAPHIC EMULSIONS This invention relates to photographic emulsions and in particular to gelatino silver halide emulsions having substantive thereto color formers and an improvement in or modification of our British Pat. Ser. No. 1,111,903.
• Gelatino silver halide emulsions which comprise substantive color formers are used in color photography and usually three such emulsion layers are used in a color photographic assembly, one layer not being color sensitized, one of the other layers being green sensitized by the presence therein of an optical sensitizers which cause the emulsion to be sensitive to a comparatively narrow waveband of light in the green region of the spectrum and the third layer being red sensitized by the presence therein of optical sensitizers which cause the emulsion to be sensitive to a comparatively narrow waveband of light in the red region of the spectrum
• optical sensitizers are usually added to the emulsion during the formation of the silver halide grains and become adsorbed onto these grains.
• Color formers are added to the emulsion at a later stage of the emulsion making process, very often just prior to coating the emulsion onto a support. It has been found that the addition of the color formers to the emulsion tends to strip off the adsorbed optical sensitizers from the silver grains, thus altering considerably the degree and range of color sensitivity of the emulsion. However some classes of optical sensitizers are more resistant than others to stripping when color formers are incorporated into the emulsion, and it has been discovered that this applies to certain of the cyanine dyes described and claimed in British Pat. No. 1,1 11,903.
• a green sensitive gelatino silver halide photographic emulsion which comprises, substantive thereto at least one magenta yielding color former and which comprises in sensitizing amount a cyanine dye of the general formula I:
• R represents a halogen atom or a lower alkyl or amino group
• R and R are the same or different and represent lower alkyl groups containing at least two carbon atoms
• one of R and R is a sulphoalkyl group of the formula -(CH ,),,SO H where n is an integer from one to six, and the other of R and R is the same or different said sulphoalkyl, group or is an alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, aralkyl, carboxy-substituted aralkyl, or carboxy-substituted alkyl group, an acylsulphamoyl alkyl group of the formula (CH ),,SO NHCOR or an alkyl or aralkyl sulphamoyl alkyl group of the formula -(CH ),,SO NHR where n in the last two formulae is an integer from one to six, R is an alkyl group and R is an alkyl or an aralky
• R and R each represent a sulphoalkyl group, i.e. (CH ),
• SO H the dye is usually isolated in the form of the anhydro hydroxide compound.
• lower alkyl groups are meant groups containing one to six carbon atoms.
• hydroxyalkyl groups are hydroxymethyl and hydroxyethyl.
• An example of aralkyl is benzyl.
• An example of carboxy-substituted aralkyl is carboxybenzyl.
• An example of carboxy-substituted alkyl is carboxymethyl.
• An example of an alkoxycarbonyl group is methoxycarbonyl.
• An example of an acylsulphamoyl alkyl group is y- (acetylsulphamoyl) propyl.
• alkyl sulphamoyl alkyl is ethyl sulphamoyl butyl.
• An example of aralkyl sulfamoyl alkyl is benzyl sulfamoyl ethyl.
• EXAMPLE 1 The dye of formula II (0.20 g. per gm. mole of silver halide) dissolved in 2-methoxyethanol, was added to a melted gelatino-silver iodobromide emulsion. A mixture (3:1 molecular ratio) of color formers of structures A and B was wetted with methanol and dissolved in normal potassium hydroxide solution and added to the dyed emulsion. The emulsion was divided into two parts. The first part was coated immediately and the second part after keeping for 3 hours at a temperature of 37 C. After exposure through a yellow filter (transmitting substantially no light of wavelengths shorter than 510 nm.) the film strips were processed through a color negative processing sequence.
• the relative log speed of the trial coated immediately was 3.22 measured at a density of 0.1 above fog density and the relative log speed of the emulsion kept for 3 hours before coating was 3. l 8.
• the speed figures show that a negligible change in emulsion speed was produced by keeping the molten emulsion for 3 hours before coating, which demonstrates that no desorption of the sensitizing dye had taken place.
• EXAMPLE 8 The dye of formula IX was tested as in example I, using the same quantity of dye.
• the relative log speed of the emulsion coated immediately was 2.64 and the speed of the emulsion coated after standing for 3 hours was 2.21.
• the low speed of the emulsion coated immediately shows that some of the dye had been stripped in the short interval of time between the addition of the color formers and the coating and drying of the emulsion.
• a green sensitive gelatino silver halide photographic emulsion which comprises, substantive thereto, at least one magenta yielding color former which is a pyrazolone derivative and which comprises in sensitizing amount a cyanine dye of the general formula:
• R represents a halogen atom or a lower alkyl or amino group
• R and R are the same or different and represent lower alkyl groups containing at least two carbon atoms, one 2. 5 1 .81 i ylma kzl 9 22 9f h fqi a-lfifi H where n is an integer from 1 to 6, and the other of R and R is the same or different said sulphoalkyl group or is an alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, aralkyl, carboxy-substituted aralkyl, or carboxysubstituted alkyl group, an acylsulphamoyl alkyl group of the formula -(CH ),,SO,NHCOR or an alkyl or aralkyl' sulphamoyl alkyl group of the formula -(CH ),,SO NHR where n in the last two formulas is an integer from 1 to 6 R is an alkyl group and R is an alkyl
• a green sensitive gelatino silver halide photographic emulsion which comprises, substantive thereto, at least one magenta yielding color former and which comprises in sensitizing amount (1-ethyl-3-sulphopropyl-5-trifluoromethyl-6- chloro-2-benzimidazole) 1,3-diethyl-5-chloro-2- benzimidazole) trimethincyanine iodide.
• a green sensitive gclatino silver halide photographic emulsion which comprises substantive thereto, at least one magenta yielding color former and which comprises in sensitizing amount (l-ethyl-3-sulphopropyl-5-trifluoromethyl-6- bromo-Z-benzimidazole) 1,3-diethyL5-chloro-2- benzimidazole) trimethincyanine iodide,

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