EP0345444B1 - Lichtempfindliches photographisches Element ohne Silber und Verfahren, um hydrophobe Zusammensetzungen in hydrophile kolloidale Zusammensetzungen einzusetzen - Google Patents

Lichtempfindliches photographisches Element ohne Silber und Verfahren, um hydrophobe Zusammensetzungen in hydrophile kolloidale Zusammensetzungen einzusetzen Download PDF

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EP0345444B1
EP0345444B1 EP89107013A EP89107013A EP0345444B1 EP 0345444 B1 EP0345444 B1 EP 0345444B1 EP 89107013 A EP89107013 A EP 89107013A EP 89107013 A EP89107013 A EP 89107013A EP 0345444 B1 EP0345444 B1 EP 0345444B1
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  • the present invention relates to a light-sensitive non-silver photographic element including a support base and a hydrophilic layer coated thereon said hydrophilic layer including an ionic dye-counter ion imaging combination dissolved in water-immiscible organic solvent droplets dispersed therein in reactive association with a non-ionic surfactant compound.
  • Non-silver imaging methods capable of recording a positive image simply upon exposure to radiation of selected wavelength are known in the art; the radiation absorbed by the dye which is in reactive association with an appropriate counter ion causes the dye to bleach.
  • Non-silver imaging methods are based on the fact that light absorption by a dye sensitizes the dye's own destruction or decolorization. For example, a yellow dye absorbs blue light and the excited dye thus formed reacts with an activator which releases a species to bleach the dye. Similarly, green and red lights would respectively cause the destruction of the magenta and cyan dyes. Thereafter the element may be stabilized to fix the image by destruction of the counter ion or by separation of the dye from the counter ion.
  • the same ionic dye-counter ion combinations act as photoinitiators for free-radical addition polymerizable compositions.
  • imaging dyes are normally ionic dyes (that is a dye with a positive or negative charge) associated with an appropriate counter ion as described in British Patent Application No. 84 301 156.
  • ionic dyes that is a dye with a positive or negative charge
  • a dye ⁇ -iodonium+ combination has been described in EP patent applications Nos. 120,601 and 175,504 and dye+-borate ⁇ combination has been described in US patent No.4,307,182.
  • European Patent Application No. 223,587 describes analogous ionic dye-counter ion combinations in association with free-radical polymerizable compounds and color forming compounds.
  • the dyes used may be of any color and any chemical class which is capable of bleaching upon exposure to radiation of selected wavelength in the presence of a counter ion.
  • photographic additives such as the ionic dye-counter ion combinations
  • ionic dye-counter ion combinations are hardly soluble in water and, when soluble in water-miscible organic solvents, they are incompatible with hydrophilic colloid compositions when incorporated therein through said organic solutions.
  • hydrophobic compounds into hydrophilic colloidal binders
  • dispersion technique One way of introducing hydrophobic compounds into hydrophilic colloidal binders is the so-called dispersion technique.
  • the hydrophobic photographic additives are dissolved in water-immiscible high-boiling organic solvents (also called in the art permanent solvents, crystalloidal solvents, oil-type solvents, oil-formers and the like) and the resulting organic solution is added to an aqueous composition containing a hydrophilic colloid (gelatin) and a dispersing agent (normally including an anionic surfactant).
  • a hydrophilic colloid gelatin
  • dispersing agent normally including an anionic surfactant
  • the mixture is then passed through a homogenizing apparatus (colloidal mill) to form a dispersion of fine droplets of said organic solvent containing the hydrophobic photographic additives.
  • a homogenizing apparatus colloidal mill
  • the obtained dispersion is then mixed with the hydrophilic colloid composition (gelatin silver halide emulsion or other gelatin-containing composition) which is used to form (by coating) the photographic layer.
  • US patent 3,860,425 refers to the above mentioned dispersion technique in which the dispersed phase is an oil such as dibutylphthalate, butyllaurate, tricresylphthalate and tricresylphosphate and the material dissolved in such dispersed oil is an oleophilic material such as a dye for silver dye bleaching process, a coupler free of water solubilizing group, an ultraviolet absorber, an antioxidant, a dye image stabilizer, or an optical brightener, the dispersion being stabilized with a non-ionic agent used in combination with an anionic agent.
  • an oil such as dibutylphthalate, butyllaurate, tricresylphthalate and tricresylphosphate
  • the material dissolved in such dispersed oil is an oleophilic material such as a dye for silver dye bleaching process, a coupler free of water solubilizing group, an ultraviolet absorber, an antioxidant, a dye image stabilizer, or an optical brightener
  • EP Patent Application 109,773 describes the use of an anionic surfactant in preparing dispersion of oil droplets containing borate/dye light sensitive combinations in aqueous gelatin.
  • the imaging methods which make use of ionic dye-counter ion imaging combinations dissolved in water-immiscible oil solvents dispersed in hydrophilic media can give better results if the dispersion is made in presence of a sorbitan ester non-ionic surfactant (including a polyoxyethylene derivative thereof) having a HLB (hydrophilic-lipophilic balance) value in the range from 4 to 10 in absence of anionic and cationic surfactants.
  • a sorbitan ester non-ionic surfactant including a polyoxyethylene derivative thereof having a HLB (hydrophilic-lipophilic balance) value in the range from 4 to 10 in absence of anionic and cationic surfactants.
  • the present invention relates to a light-sensitive non-silver photographic element including a support base and a hydrophilic binder layer coated thereon including an ionic dye-counter ion imaging combination dissolved in water-immiscible organic solvent droplets.
  • the droplets are dispersed in the hydrophilic layer in association with a sorbitan ester non-ionic surfactant having a HLB value in the range from 4 to 10.
  • the selection of the surfactant needed to make the oil ionic dye-counter ion dispersion and to keep it stable (free from crystallization) within the layer (including it) is critical not only to the stability of the dispersion but also to the sensitometric results obtained with such dye-ion imaging combination.
  • the use of anionic and cationic surfactants has been found to result in poor sensitivity and high D min . It is believed that they disrupt the ionic dye-counter ion reactive association which is the basis of the imaging process of interest to the present invention.
  • Non-ionic surfactants are believed to be particularly good aids for the ionic dye-counter ion imaging chemistry due to the fact that they do not apparently disrupt the necessary dye-activator salt. Within the class of non-ionic surfactants, it has been found that better results are obtained if the dispersion is made in the presence of a sorbitan ester non-ionic surfactant having a HLB value of 4 to 10.
  • Such sorbitan ester non-ionic surfactant compounds may be a sorbitan fatty acid ester non-ionic surfactant or a polyoxyethylene sorbitan fatty acid ester non-ionic surfactant, represented by the general formula (I) : wherein w+x+y+z represents 0 to 30, preferably 5 to 20, and R1, R2, R3 and R4 each represents a hydroxy group or a group wherein R5 represents an aliphatic saturated or unsaturated carbon atom alyphatic chain of a fatty acid, preferably including 5 to 30 carbon atoms, such as lauric acid, myristic acid, palmitic acid, oleic acid, stearic acid, ricinoleic acid and the like, in which at least one of R1, R2, R3 and R4 represents a hydroxy group and at least one of R1, R2, R3 and R4 represents a group, and the value of w+x+y+z and the nature and size of R5 are chosen to
  • the sorbitan fatty acid ester non-ionic surfactants are, in general, manufactured by direct reaction of sorbitol with fatty acids under the influence of heat or acidic reagents or both, during which internal ether formation as well as esterification occurs.
  • the sorbitan fatty acid esters resulting from simultaneous internal ether formation and esterification consist of components esterified to different extents (mono-, di- and triesters) as described by F. R. Benson in Nonionic Surfactants, edited by M. J. Schick, M. Dekker Inc. New York, 1967, pages 264-266.
  • polyoxyalkylene sorbitan fatty acid ester non-ionic surfactants are, in general, manufactured by reaction of ethylene oxide with sorbitan fatty acid esters as described by F. R. Benson in Nonionic Surfactants, edited by M. J. Schick, M. Dekker Inc. New York, 1967, pages 270-272.
  • non ionic surfactants are to be used in the substantial or total absence of any anionic or cationic surfactants.
  • Sorbitan esters such as for example SpanTM-20, are highly preferred as leading to thermo-stable, well resolved ( ⁇ 1 »m) droplet dispersion of oil in gelatin, with the imaging chemistry located in the oil as desired.
  • TergitolTM e.g. TMN-10 non-ionic surfactants may be used but they give dispersions with medium to poor thermo-stability and larger droplets than attainable with sorbitan esters.
  • HLB hydrophilic-lipophilic balance
  • Sorbitan esters SPANTM
  • polyoxyethylene sorbitan esters TWEENTM
  • the ionic dyes used may be either anionic and cationic, depending on the polarity of the active counter ion.
  • a preferred embodiment of the invention involves an anionic dye in reactive association with a positively charged counter ion, such as for example an iodonium+ counter ion.
  • Particularly useful anionic dyes for use in this invention are oxonol dyes of the general formula (II): wherein R6, R7, R8 and R9 each represents 1 to 10 atoms chosen among carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur to form a substituent such as substituted or unsubstituted alkly group or aryl group (such as phenyl, naphthyl group) or heterocyclic group (such as pyridyl group) directly linked to the rest of the molecule or attached to the molecule through link groups such as oxygen, sulfur, carbonyl, sulfonyl, carbonamido, sulfonamido, ureido, carbonylester, carbamoyl, sulfamoyl, aminocarnonyl and aminosulfonyl, and the like, or other terminal groups, preferably electron-withdrawing groups, such as cyano, hydroxy, nitro and halogen (Cl, Br and F).
  • R6, R7, R8 and R9 may be the same or different and are chosen to form a symmetrical or an unsymmetrical dye molecule.
  • R6 and R7 and, respectively, R8 and R9 may be taken together to represent the C, H, N, O and S atoms to form a simple (5 or 6 atoms) or condensed (including 9 or 10 atoms) heterocyclic or alicyclic nucleus (such as barbituric acid, thiobarbituric acid, pyrazolone, oxindole, indandione, isoxazolone and 1,1-dioxo-3-oxothiophene).
  • R10, R11 and R12 each represents hydrogen, low alkyl groups (containing 1 to 5 carbon atoms), aryl groups (such as phenyl group), saturated and unsaturated heterocyclic groups (such as pyridine and pyrroline groups) or alicyclic groups having 5 or 6 carbon atoms (such as cyclopentane and cyclohexane) or atoms chosen within carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur to form a simple (including 5 or 6 atoms) or condensed (including 9 or 10 atoms) aromatic or heterocyclic or alicyclic nucleus (such as phenyl, piridyl, naphthalene groups).
  • the substituents R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11 and R12 are chosen to give dyes useful to the present invention as known in the art, preferably having no more than 40 carbon atoms.
  • Y+ represents a cation.
  • oxonol dyes examples include: As already said, a particular useful counter ion to be associated with a negatively charged dye is an iodonium+ counter ion of an iodonium salt.
  • the iodonium salts that may be used in the imaging system are compounds consisting of a cation wherein a positively charged iodine atom bears two covalently bonded carbon atoms, and any anion.
  • the acid from which the anion is derived has a pKa ⁇ 5.
  • the preferred compounds are diaryl, aryl/heteroaryl or diheteroaryl iodonium salts in which the carbon-iodine bonds are from aryl or heteroaryl groups.
  • Aliphatic iodonium salts are not normally thermally stable at temperature above 0°C.
  • stabilised alkyl phenyl iodonium salts such as those disclosed in Chem.Lett. 1982, 65-6 are stable at room temperature and may be used.
  • Suitable iodonium salts may be represented by the formula (III): wherein Ar1 and Ar2 independently represent carbocyclic or heterocyclic aromatic-type groups generally having from 4 to 20 carbon atoms, or together with the iodine atom complete an "aromatic" heterocyclic ring (to the purposes of the present invention pyrazole, thiazole and furane are considered aromatic heterocyclic nuclei). These groups include substituted and unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon rings, e.g. phenyl or naphthyl, which may be substituted with alkyl groups, e.g. methyl, alkoxy groups, e.g.
  • hetero-cyclic groups include thienyl, furanyl and pyrazolyl groups which may be substituted with similar substituents as described above.
  • Condensed aromatic/hetero-aromatic groups, e.g. 3-indolinyl, may also be present.
  • Z ⁇ represents an anion (such as, for example, Cl ⁇ , I ⁇ , Br ⁇ , perfluoro(4-ethylcyclohexane)sulfonate, sulfate, methyl sulfate, methanesulfonate) which may be incorporated into Ar1 or Ar2.
  • anion such as, for example, Cl ⁇ , I ⁇ , Br ⁇ , perfluoro(4-ethylcyclohexane)sulfonate, sulfate, methyl sulfate, methanesulfonate
  • Ar1 and Ar2 do not have more than two substituents at the ⁇ -positions of the aryl groups. More preferably, Ar1 and Ar2 are both phenyl groups containing no ⁇ substituents, such as in iodonium salts represented by the formula (IV): wherein R is an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, preferably having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, such as methyl, ethyl, iso-propyl or n-butyl. Z ⁇ has the same meaning as in (III).
  • the ⁇ -positions of the aryl groups may be linked together to include the iodine atom within a ring structure, such as in iodonium salts represented by the formula (V): in which A is an oxygen or sulphur atom. Z ⁇ has the same meaning as in (III).
  • Suitable iodonium salts include polymers containing units (VI) in which Ph represents phenyl. Z ⁇ has the same meaning as in (III).
  • iodonium salts include: The dye/iodonium system has its greatest sensitivity at the lambda max of the longest wavelenght absorbance peak. Generally, it is necessary to irradiate the system with radiation of wavelenght in the vicinity of this lambda max for bleaching to occur. Thus, a combination of coloured dyes may be used, e.g. yellow, magenta and cyan, in the same or different layers in an element and these can be selectively bleached by appropriate visible radiation to form a full color image.
  • Monochromatic or polychromatic images may be produced by using the photosensitive materials with relatively short exposure times in daylight or sunlight or even artificial sources of light (e.g. fluorescent lamps or laser beam).
  • the exposure time for adequate results, for example when using an 0.5 kW tungsten lamp at a distance of 0.7 m, may be between 1 second to 10 minutes.
  • the weight ratio of bleachable dye to iodonium salt in the element is in the range from 1:1 to 1:50, preferably in the range from 1:2 to 1:10.
  • a preferred composition of the dye iodonium ion bleaching reaction is the combination of an oxonol dye anion with the activator iodonium cation to form an organic salt which is highly soluble in oils, such as di-butyl phthalate, di-butyl lauramide.
  • an oxonol dye anion with the activator iodonium cation to form an organic salt which is highly soluble in oils, such as di-butyl phthalate, di-butyl lauramide.
  • Another embodiment of the present invention comprises a cationic dye in reactive association with a negatively charged counter ion.
  • dye bleaching systems can give good results by using positively charged dyes in reactive association with a negatively charge counter-ion, such as a borate ⁇ counter ion.
  • the cationic dye to be used in reactive association with the borate ⁇ counter ion may be of any color and any chemical class.
  • the dyes should not contain groups which would fix or desensitize the borate salts (e.g. carboxylic acid groups, sulfonic acid groups and readily reducible metal cations such as metal cations at least as readily reducible as ferric ion).
  • the bleachable dyes may be selected from a wide range of known classes of dyes including methine, cyanine, carbocyanine, azomethine, styryl, xanthene, azine or rhodamine dyes.
  • Particularly useful cationic dyes are cyanine dyes of the general formula (VII): wherein p is an integer of 0 to 5 and R13, R14, R15 and R16 each represents 1 to 10 atoms chosen among carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur to form a substituent such as substituted or unsubstituted alkly group or aryl group (such as phenyl, naphthyl group) or heterocyclic group (such as pyridyl group) directly linked to the rest of the molecule or attached to the molecule through link groups such as oxygen, sulfur, carbonyl, sulfonyl, carbonamido, sulfonamido, ureido, carbonylester, carbamoyl, sulfamoyl, aminocarbonyl and aminosulfonyl, and the like, or other terminal groups, preferably electron-withdrawing groups, such as cyano, hydroxy, nitro and halogen (Cl, Br and F).
  • R13, R14, R15 and R16 may be the same or different and are chosen to form a symmetrical or an unsymmetrical dye molecule.
  • R13 and R14 and, respectively, R15 and R16 may be taken together to represent the C, H, N, O and S atoms to form a simple (5 or 6 atoms) or condensed (including 9 or 10 atoms) heterocyclic nucleus, such as oxazoline, oxazole, benzoxazole, the naphthoxazoles (e.g.
  • the benzimidazoles e.g. 1,1-dimethylbenzimidazole
  • imidazoline imidazole
  • benzimidazole the naphthimidazoles (e.g. naphth ⁇ 2,3-d ⁇ imidazole)
  • pyridine e.g. pyridine
  • nuclei may be substituted on the ring by one or more of a wide variety of substituents, such as hydroxy, the halogens (e.g. fluoro, bromo, chloro and iodo), alkyl groups or substituted alkyl groups (e.g.
  • aryl groups or substituted aryl groups e.g. phenyl, 1-naphthyl, 2-naphthyl, 4-sulfophenyl, 3-carboxyphenyl and 4-biphenyl
  • aralkyl groups e.g. benzyl and phenethyl
  • alkoxy groups e.g. methoxy, ethoxy and isopropoxy
  • aryloxy groups e.g.
  • alkylthio groups e.g. ethylthio and methylthio
  • arylthio groups e.g. phenylthio, p-tolylthio and 2-naphthylthio
  • methylenedioxy cyano, 2-thienyl, styryl, amino or substituted amino groups (e.g. anilino, dimethylanilino, diethylanilino and morpholino), acyl groups (e.g. acetyl and benzoyl), and sulfo groups.
  • R17 and R18 can be the same or different and represent alkyl groups, aryl groups, alkenyl groups or aralkyl groups, with or without substituents (e.g. carboxymethyl, 2-hydroxyethyl, 3-sulfopropyl, 3-sulfobutyl, 4-sulfobutyl, 2-methoxyethyl, 2-sulfatoethyl, 3-thiasulfatoethyl, 2-phosphonoethyl, chlorophenyl and bromophenyl) having 1 to 10 carbon atoms.
  • substituents e.g. carboxymethyl, 2-hydroxyethyl, 3-sulfopropyl, 3-sulfobutyl, 4-sulfobutyl, 2-methoxyethyl, 2-sulfatoethyl, 3-thiasulfatoethyl, 2-phosphonoethyl, chlorophenyl and bromophenyl
  • R19, R20 and R21 each represents hydrogen, low alkyl groups (containing 1 to 5 carbon atoms), aryl groups (such as phenyl groups), saturated and unsaturated heterocyclic groups (such as pyridine and pyrroline groups) or alicyclic groups having 5 or 6 carbon atoms (such as cyclopentane and cyclohexane) or atoms chosen within carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur to form (when taken together) a simple (including 5 or 6 atoms) or condensed (including 9 or 10 atoms) aromatic or heterocyclic or alicyclic nucleus (such as phenyl, piridyl, naphthalene groups).
  • the substituents R13, R14, R15, R16, R17, R18, R19, R20 and R21 are to give dyes useful to the present invention, as known in the art, preferably having no more than 40 atoms.
  • X ⁇ represents an anion (such as, for example, Cl ⁇ , I ⁇ , Br ⁇ , perfluoro(4-ethylcyclohexane)sulfonate, sulfate, methyl sulfate, methanesulfonate).
  • cyanine dyes include: wherein PECHS is perfluoro(4-ethylcyclohexane)sulphonate.
  • particular useful counter ion to be associated with the positively charged dye is a borate ⁇ counter ion of a borate salt.
  • the borate salts that may be used in the imaging system are the tetra(aliphatic)borates, as described in US 4,307,182, wherein all of the carbon-to-boron bonds are from aliphatic groups.
  • Imaging in the light sensitive dye/borate system is affected by irradiation.
  • the radiation which is absorbed by the dye/borate system causes the dye to bleach.
  • a positive image is then produced.
  • the use of cationic dyes is believed to spectrally sensitize the borates to radiation absorbed by the dyes associated with the borate. These are not used as sensitizing dyes as used in photographic imaging systems (usually in ratios of 1/500 or 1/10000 of dye to light sensitive agents). These dyes are used in proportion of at least 1/10 to about 1/1 in ratio to the borate. Because the dye-borate system is molecularly spectrally sensitive, a multiplicity of colored dyes may be used (e.g. cyan, magenta and yellow) in the same or different layers.
  • Reactive association is defined as such physical proximity between the compounds as to enable a chemical reaction to take place between them upon exposure to light.
  • an element may be prepared which is sensitive to radiation of a selected wavelength band within useful ranges, such as 300 to 1100 nm, the particular wavelength and the width of the band depending upon the absorption characteristics of the dye.
  • a dye has more than one absorption peak it is the wavelength corresponding to the longest wavelength peak at which one would choose to irradiate the element.
  • Elements intended for the production of images from radiation in the visible region will contain dyes which will bleach from a colored to a substantially colorless or very pale state.
  • such bleachable dyes will undergo a change such that the transmission optical density at the lambda max will drop from 1.0 or more to less than 0.09, preferably to less than 0.05.
  • the dyes will generally be coated on the support to provide an optical density of about 3.0 or more.
  • the dyes will not normally be colored to the eye and there may be no visible change upon exposure to ultraviolet and bleaching.
  • the image-wise exposed elements may be used as masks for further ultraviolet exposure after fixing.
  • Infrared sensitive elements contain dyes having an absorption peak in the wavelength range 700 to 1100 nm. These dyes may also have absorption peaks in the visible region before and/or after bleaching. Thus as well as providing a mean for obtaining masks for subsequent infrared exposure in a similar manner to the ultraviolet masks, infrared sensitive elements may record a visible image upon image-wise exposure to infrared radiation.
  • the present invention also relates to a coating composition for the manufacture of a light sensitive non-silver photographic element which includes an ionic dye-counter ion imaging composition dissolved in a water immiscible organic solvent dispersed therein in the form of droplets associated with a non-ionic sorbitan ester surfactant compound having a HLB value of 4 to 10.
  • the present invention relates to a process for manufacturing a light sensitive non-silver photographic element which includes coating on a support base a composition substantially consisting of a hydrophilic binder having dispersed therein droplets of a water immiscible organic solvent including dissolved therein an ionic dye-counter ion imaging composition in the presence of a sorbitan ester surfactant compound having a HLB value of 4 to 10.
  • the process of incorporating hydrophobic additives, such as hydrophobic dye-counter ion combination agents, into hydrophilic colloid components layers of photographic materials consists of incorporating into hydrophilic colloid coating compositions of said layers the hydrophobic additives themselves in the form of a dispersion of fine droplets consisting of a water-immiscible high boiling organic solvent in which said hydrophobic additives have been dissolved.
  • the hydrophobic photographic additives are dissolved in water-immiscible high boiling organic solvents (also called in the art permanent solvents, crystalloidal solvents, oil solvents, oil-formers and the like) and the resulting organic solution is added to an aqueous composition containing the hydrophilic colloid (gelatin) and a dispersing agent (surfactant).
  • the mixture is then passed through a homogeneizing apparatus (colloidal mill) to form a dispersion of fine droplets of said organic solvent comprising the hydrophobic photographic additives.
  • the obtained dispersion is then mixed with the hydrophilic colloid composition (light sensitive gelatin composition or other gelatin composition) which is used to form (by coating) the photographic layer.
  • the obtained photographic layer includes the additive dispersed therein.
  • Organic solvents for dispersing hydrophobic compounds are desired to meet several requirements. They have to possess an excellent dissolving power towards said additives, to keep the fine droplets stably dispersed, to have a refractive index which is as close as possible to that of the hydrophilic colloid wherein they are dispersed, and not to deteriorate the physical properties of the layers wherein they are incorporated. Moreover, said organic solvents have to not negatively affect the photographic properties of the materials wherein they are used to disperse photographic additives.
  • Organic solvents may be selected from esters of carboxylic acid, phosphate esters, carboxyl amides, ethers and substituted hydrocarbons.
  • di-n-butyl phthalate 2(ethyl-hexyl)phthalate, dioctyl phthalate, diisodecyl phthalate, di-(methoxy-ethyl) phthalate, N-N-diethyl lauramide, di-butyl lauramide, butyl acetanilide, tricresyl phosphate, tributyl phosphate, tri-(butoxy-ethyl) phosphate, di-butyl sebacate, dioctyl sebacate, etc.
  • the amounts of high boiling solvents used according to this invention for dispersing hydrophobic additives can vary according to the used additive. It is, however, undesiderable to use large amounts of such solvents, because large excess of solvents may sometimes deteriorate the physical properties of the photographic layers. Accordingly, it is normal practice to use the high boiling solvents in a weight ratio to each additive in the range 01 to 8.0, preferably in the range 0.3 to 3.0.
  • a low-boiling solvent or water-soluble high-boiling solvent is sometimes advantageously used along with the water-insoluble high-boiling solvent as mentioned above for dissolving the ionic dye-counter ion combination, e.g., propylene carbonate, ethyl acetate, butyl acetate, ethyl propionate, sec-butyl alcohol, tetrahydro-furan, cyclohexanone, dimethylformamide, diethylsulphoxide and 2-methoxy ethanol.
  • ionic dye-counter ion combination e.g., propylene carbonate, ethyl acetate, butyl acetate, ethyl propionate, sec-butyl alcohol, tetrahydro-furan, cyclohexanone, dimethylformamide, diethylsulphoxide and 2-methoxy ethanol.
  • auxiliary low boiling organic solvents are for example described in U.S.
  • the bleachable dye and counter ion salt are applied to the support in a hydrophilic binder.
  • Suitable hydrophilic binders are transparent or translucent, are generally colourless and include natural polymers, synthetic resins, polymers and copolymers, and other film forming media.
  • the binders may range from thermoplastic to highly cross-linked, and may be coated from aqueous or organic solvents or emulsions.
  • Gelatin is the preferred hydrophilic colloid for use in the present invention.
  • other water-soluble colloidal substances or mixture thereof can also be used.
  • Exemplary hydrophilic colloidal substances include gelatine derivatives, such as phthalated gelatin and acetylated gelatine, cellulose derivatives, such as carboxymethyl cellulose, starch, casein, zein, synthetic hydrophilic colloids such as polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, copolymers of acrylic acid esters, acrylonitrile and acrylamides, etc.
  • the amount of gelatin used in practice depends on the dispersing solvent amount and the coating thickness required. It is advantageously used in the amount of 2.5 to 5% by weight of whole dispersion.
  • Suitable supports include transparent film, e.g. polyester, paper e.g. baryta-coated photographic paper, and metallised film. Opaque vesicular polyester films are also useful.
  • Yellow dyes represented by the formulas (1) and (4) (2.0 g and 1.6 g) were dissolved in a mixture of 24 ml of DEL (diethyl lauramide), 4 ml of dimethyl formamide (DMF) and ethanol (30 ml) at 50°C.
  • DEL diethyl lauramide
  • DMF dimethyl formamide
  • ethanol 30 ml
  • iodonium salt 9 (5.2 g).
  • the resulting solution was dropwise added to 200 ml of 10% aqueous gelatin while stirring with a high speed rotating mixer to effect dispersion. The dispersion was continued for 5 minutes, after which time 136 ml water was added and dispersion maintained for 3 minutes.
  • This stock emulsion is used immediately, because although initially the emulsion is well formed with ⁇ 0.1 »m droplets, it is not stable after 12 hours at room temperature. Separation of the oil is observed.
  • the emulsion was found to separate large oil drops after 24 hours.
  • the emulsion was conventionally coated onto subbed polyester and dried for 1 hour at 40°C in the dark.
  • the resulting yellow coating was analysed by monitoring the sensitivity of the yellow dye bleach at 460 nm.
  • aqueous anionic HostapurTM surfactant (an anionic alkane sulfonate surfactant manufactured by Hoechst AG), to 100 ml of the stock dispersion.
  • the stability was monitored for 24 hours/40°C.
  • a sample of the obtained coated film was analyzed as above for sensitivity and D min .
  • non-ionic TergitolTM TMN-4 surfactant (a non-ionic trimethylnonyl polyeyhylene glycol ether surfactant manufactured by Union Carbide Co.), (10%aqueous, 7 ml).
  • non-ionic TergitolTM TMN-10 surfactant (a non-ionic trimethylnonyl polyethylene glycol ether manufactured by Union Carbide Co.), (10%aqueous, 7 ml).
  • the HostapurTM surfactant of case b) is an anionic surfactant. It gives a good stability but the values of D max and D min obtained by the use of such a type of surfactant are worse than the values obtained without the use of any surfactants.
  • the TergitolTM TMN-4 and TergitolTM TMN-10 surfactants of, respectively, cases c) and d) are non-ionic surfactants.
  • TergitolTM TMN-4 a good stability is obtained and the values of D max and D min are better than the values obtained in case b) (by the use of an anionic surfactant).
  • the resulting solution was added to 50 ml of an aqueous solution kept at 45°C and containing 5 g of gelatine. The resulting mixture was stirred for 5 minutes in a high speed rotary mixer to effect dispersion.
  • oxonol salt of formula (3) 0.5 g was dissolved by heating in a mixture of 6 ml of DEL, 1 ml of DMF, 7 ml ethanol and 0.2 of non-ionic surfactant (SpanTM 20). Under a diminuished yellow-green light, 0.6g of iodonium salt (9) was added and the resulting solution was stirred by Silverson into 50 ml of 10% aqueous gelatin kept at 45°C.

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  1. Lichtempfindliches photographisches Element ohne Silber, umfassend einen Träger und eine darauf aufgetragene hydrophile Bindemittelschicht, die eine bildgebende Kombination aus ionischem Farbstoff und Gegenion, gelöst in einem mit Wasser nicht mischbaren Öllösungsmittel enthält, das darin in Assoziation mit einem grenzflächenaktiven Stoff dispergiert ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der grenzflächenaktive Stoff eine nicht-ionische grenzflächenaktive Sorbitesterverbindung darstellt, die allein oder in Kombination mit anderen nichtionischen grenzflächenaktiven Sorbitestern einen HLB-Wert im Bereich von 4 bis 10 aufweist, wobei anionische und kationische grenzflächenaktive Stoffe nicht vorhanden sind.
  2. Lichtempfindliches photographisches Element ohne Silber nach Anspruch 1, in dem die Sorbitesterverbindung ein Polyoxyethylenderivat davon ist.
  3. Lichtempfindliches photographisches Element ohne Silber nach Anspruch 1, in dem die bildgebende Kombination aus ionischem Farbstoff und Gegenion ein anionischer Farbstoff ist, der reaktiv mit einem Iodonium-Gegenion assoziiert ist.
  4. Lichtempfindliches photographisches Element ohne Silber nach Anspruch 3, in dem der anionische Farbstoff ein Oxonolfarbstoff ist.
  5. Lichtempfindliches photographisches Element ohne Silber nach Anspruch 3, in dem das Iodonium-Gegenion durch die Formel:
    Figure imgb0019
     wiedergegeben wird, in der Ar₁ und Ar₂ unabhängig voneinander carbocyclische oder heterocyclische Reste des aromatischen Typs mit 4 bis 20 Kohlenstoffatomen darstellen oder zusammen mit dem Jodatom einen heterocyclischen aromatischen Ring vervollständigen und Z⁻ ein Anion darstellt, das in Ar₁ oder Ar₂ vorhanden sein kann.
  6. Lichtempfindliches photographisches Element ohne Silber nach Anspruch 3, in dem das Iodonium-Gegenion durch die Formel wiedergegeben wird:
    Figure imgb0020
     in der der Rest R einen Alkylrest mit 1 bis 20 Kohlenstoffatomen darstellt und Z⁻ ein Anion darstellt.
  7. Lichtempfindliches photographisches Element ohne Silber nach Anspruch 1, in dem die bildgebende Kombination aus ionischem Farbstoff und Gegenion ein kationischer Farbstoff ist, der reaktiv mit einem Borat-Gegenion assoziiert ist.
  8. Lichtempfindliches photographisches Element ohne Silber nach Anspruch 7, in dem der kationische Farbstoff ein Zyaninfarbstoff ist.
  9. Lichtempfindliches photographisches Element ohne Silber nach Anspruch 8, in dem das Borat-Gegenion ein Tetra(aliphatisches)borat ist.
  10. Lichtempfindliches photographisches Element ohne Silber nach Anspruch 1, in dem das Öllösungsmittel ausgewählt ist aus Estern von Carbonsäuren, Phosphatestern, Carboxylamiden, Ethern oder substituierten Kohlenwasserstoffen.
  11. Beschichtungsmasse zur Herstellung eines lichtempfindlichen photographischen Elements ohne Silber, das eine bildgebende Zusammensetzung aus ionischem Farbstoff und Gegenion umfaßt, gelöst in einem mit Wasser nicht mischbaren organischen Lösungsmittel, das in einem hydrophilen Bindemittel in Form von mit einem grenzflächenaktiven Stoff assoziierten Tröpfchen dispergiert ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der grenzflächenaktive Stoff eine nicht-ionische grenzflächenaktive Sorbitesterverbindung ist, die allein oder in Kombination mit anderen grenzflächenaktiven nicht-ionischen Sorbitestern einen HLB-Wert von 4 bis 10 aufweist, wobei anionische und kationische grenzflächenaktive Mittel nicht vorhanden sind.
  12. Verfahren zur Herstellung eines lichtempfindlichen photographischen Elements ohne Silber, das das Beschichten eines Trägers mit einer Zusammensetzung umfaßt, die im wesentlichen aus einem hydrophilen Bindemittel mit darin dispergierten Tröpfchen aus einem mit Wasser nicht mischbaren organischen Lösungsmittel besteht, das darin eine bildgebende Zusammensetzung aus ionischem Farbstoff und Gegenion in Gegenwart eines grenzflächenaktiven Stoffes enthält, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der grenzflächenaktive Stoff eine grenzflächenaktive Sorbitesterverbindung ist, die allein oder in Kombination mit anderen nicht-ionischen grenzflächenaktiven Sorbitestern einen HLB-Wert von 4 bis 10 aufweist, wobei anionische und kationische grenzflächenaktive Mittel nicht vorhanden sind.
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