US3623877A - Silver halide color photographic materials containing alkaline earth metal salts of color couplers - Google Patents

Silver halide color photographic materials containing alkaline earth metal salts of color couplers Download PDF

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US3623877A
US3623877A US843175A US3623877DA US3623877A US 3623877 A US3623877 A US 3623877A US 843175 A US843175 A US 843175A US 3623877D A US3623877D A US 3623877DA US 3623877 A US3623877 A US 3623877A
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Richard Kenneth Langley
James Arthur Townsley
Roy Trunley
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    • G03CPHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIALS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES; PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, e.g. CINE, X-RAY, COLOUR, STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES; AUXILIARY PROCESSES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
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  • This application describes a process for the incorporation into a gelatino silver halideemulsion of a color coupler containing a carboxylic acid group which is characterised in that it comprises reacting an alkali metal salt of the color coupler with a water-soluble alkaline earth metal salt or magnesium salt in the presence of gelatin or a colloid medium compatible with gelatin to form a dispersion of the color coupler in the colloid medium and incorporating the said dispersion in the gelatino silver halide emulsion.
  • This invention relates to color photographic materials and their production.
  • color photographic materials which comprise photographic silver halide emulsions containing color couplers.
  • These color couplers are destined to react with the oxidation products of aromatic amino color developing agents, such as N,N-dialkyl paraphenylenediamines and like compounds, formed during developing of the silver image, to form a colored dye image, usually an image in an indophenol or azornethine dye.
  • color coupler to the silver halide emulsion layer, the colloid medium of which is usually gelatin.
  • One Well known method is to employ a color coupler which has an acidic solubilising group and to dissolve the said color coupler in a solution of alkali metal hydroxide and add the resulting solution of the emulsion.
  • a difiiculty which arises is that there is frequently a tendency for reaction to occur between the acid group of the color coupler and the gelatin of the emulsion, giving rise to an increase in viscosity, with attendant difficulties in coating the resulting emulsion.
  • a process for the incorporation into a gelatino silver halide emulsion of a color coupler containing a carboxylic acid group which comprises reacting on alkali metal salt of the color coupler with a water-soluble alkaline earth metal salt or magnesium salt in the presence of gelatin or a colloid medium compatible with gelatin to form a dispersion of the color coupler in the colloid medium and incorporating the said dispersion in the gelatino silver halide emulsion.
  • the calcium salt of the color coupler is obtained as a fine dispersion.
  • This dispersion is of viscosity comparable with that of aqueous gelatin of the same concentration, i.e. is less than than the viscosity achieved 3,623,877 Patented Nov. 30, 1971 by the direct addition of the color coupler which comprises the free carboxylic acid or the alkali metal salt thereof to the gelatin.
  • the method of the invention may be employed in association with any color coupler which has one or more free carboxylic acid groups or is capable of easily yielding a free carboxylic acid group and is thus able to form an alkali metal salt, it is of particular value in connection with color couplers which contain a phthalimide ring or a succinimide ring, and other analagous color couplers of which fission of the ring leads to compounds with free carboxylic acid groups, as described in British patent specification Nos. 944,838, 949,944, 1,004,075, 1,039,452 and 1,069,061.
  • color couplers are 4-(4-dodecylphenylaminocarbonyl) N (l-phenyl-S-pyrazonyl-3-)phthalimide, 4 (4-dodecylphenylaminocarbonyl)-N-[4-(4 rnethoxybenzoyl acetamide)phenyl]phthalimide, 4-(n-octadecylaminocarbonyl)-N-[p-( l-hydroxy-Z- naphthamido) ethyl]phthalimide, l-phenyl 3[zx.-(N-I1- octadecylsuccinido) acetylamido] -5-pyrazolone.
  • Examples of other color couplers of use in the process of the present invention are 1-phenyl-3-(fi-[N-(p-ndodecylphenyl)-acety1amino]-flcarboxyl n propionylamino)-5-pyrazolone, 2 (fi-[N-(-p-n-dodecylphenyl)isobutyrylamino]-,8-carboxy-n-propionylamino) 4-chloro-5- methylphenol, 4' methoxybenzoylacet-5-(B-n-hexadecylsulphonylamino-/3-carboxy-n-propionylamino -2-methoxyanilide, 1-phenyl-3-[a-[N-n-hexadecylacetylamino)-[3-carboxy-n-propionylamino]-5-pyrazolone.
  • the color coupler is dissolved in an alkali metal hydroxide solution e.g. caustic soda solution.
  • an alkali metal hydroxide solution e.g. caustic soda solution.
  • color coupler (A) has the formula:
  • the imide ring opens to yield the sodium salt of the color coupler.
  • the imide ring may open in one of two senses thus:
  • Solution II Dissolve 160 g. of color coupler A (see above) in 240 ml. of 2 N potassium hydroxide solution and dilute with distilled water to 1600 ml.
  • EXAMPLE 2 Solution I Disperse 120 g. of gelatin in 1080 ml. of distilled water and add to this 300 ml. of 10% w./v. aqueous poly (vinyl alcohol) solution, 360 ml. of 4% w./v. aqueous 4 Manoxol O.T. solution (dispersing agent) and ml. of N acetic acid.
  • the dispersions were added to gelatino silver halide photographic emulsions and coated as a green sensitive layer in the case of Example 1 and as blue sensitive layers in the cases of Examples 2 and 3 in standard reversal color material. No significant sensitometric differences were observed when compared with control coatings containing the same color couplers added by the conventional technique.
  • a process for the production of a photographic gelatino silver halide emulsion comprising a color coupler, uniformly dispersed therein, which comprises incorporating into a gelatino silver halide emulsion a color coupler which contains a carboxylic acid group of which a calcium, barim or strontium salt is water-insoluble, by forming a dispersion of a said water-insoluble salt of the color coupler in an aqueous medium comprising gelatin or a colloid compatible with gelatin by reaction between an alkali metal salt of the color coupler and a water-soluble calcium, barium or strontium salt, in the presence of aqueous gelatin or an aqueous solution of a said compatible colloid, and incorporating said dispersion in the gelatino silver halide emulsion.
  • the color coupler is of the type which comprises a phthalimide or succinimide ring before conversion to the alkali metal salt thereof.
  • a gelatino silver halide emulsion which comprises a color coupler containing a carboxylic acid group of which a calcium, barim or strontium salt is water-insoluble, which has been incorporated therein by a process which comprises reacting an alkali metal salt of the color coupler with a water-soluble calcium, barium or strontium salt in the presence of aqueous gelatin or an aqueous colloid medium compatible with gelatin to form a dispersion of the color coupler in the colloid medium and incorporating the said dispersion in the gelatino silver halide emulsion.

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US6309812B1 (en) 1997-11-06 2001-10-30 Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. Emulsified dispersion of photographic hydrophobic compound and silver halide photographic light-sensitive material
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