Claims
- 1. A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support and provided thereon a yellow color-developing light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta color-developing light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a cyan color-developing light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer each having a different color-sensitivity, wherein the magenta color-developing light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one non-diffusible dye-forming coupler represented by the following Formula (M), a high boiling organic solvent having a dielectric constant of 6.0 or less and a refraction index of 1.50 or less, and at least one water insoluble polymer which is obtained by polymerizing at least one monomer having an aromatic group: wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; Z represents a non-metal atomic group which is necessary to form a 5-membered azole ring containing 2 to 4 nitrogen atoms and the azole ring may contain a substituent; and X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of splitting off upon a coupling reaction with an oxidation product of a developing agent, wherein the water insoluble polymer has a number-average molecular weight of 1,000 to 5,000.
- 2. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material described in claim 1, wherein the dye-fronting coupler represented by Formula (M) is represented by the following Formula (M-I), (M-II), (M-III), (M-IV) or (M-V): wherein R11, R12, R13 and R14 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent.
- 3. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material described in claim 1, wherein the dye-forming coupler represented by Formula (M) is represented by the following Formula (M-IIA) or (M-IIIA): wherein R21 represents a secondary or tertiary alkyl group or a secondary or tertiary cycloalkyl group; and R22 and R23 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent.
- 4. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material described in claim 3, wherein R21 in Formulas (M-IIA) and (M-IIIA) is a secondary or tertiary cycloalkyl group or a secondary or tertiary bicycloalkyl group.
- 5. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material described in claim 3, wherein R21 in Formulas (M-IIA) and (M-IIIA) is an adamantyl group, 2,2,2-bicycloctane-1-yl group, 1-alkylcyclopropane-1-yl group, 1-alkylcyclohexane-1-yl group, or 2,6-dialkylcyclohexane-1-yl group.
- 6. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material described in claim 1, wherein the water insoluble polymer is a polymer having at least a monomer unit derived from at least one of styrene, α-methylstyrene and β-methylstyrene.
- 7. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material described in claim 1, wherein the coupler of Formula (M) has at least one group represented by —P═O as a partial structure in the molecule thereof, provided that a part of X is excluded.
- 8. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material described in claim 1, wherein the high boiling organic solvent has a dielectric constant of 5.5 or less and has a solubility of 1% or less to water.
- 9. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material described in claim 1, wherein the magenta coupler represented by Formula (M) is used in an amount of 0.01 to 10 mmol/m2 in the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material.
- 10. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material described in claim 1, wherein the high boiling organic solvent is used in an amount of 0.2 to 10.0 based on the magenta coupler in terms of a weight ratio.
- 11. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material described in claim 1, wherein the water insoluble polymer is used in an amount of 0.05 to 5.0 based on the magenta coupler in terms of a weight ratio.
- 12. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material described in claim 1, wherein the support is a reflection type support.
- 13. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material described in claim 1, wherein the high boiling organic solvent has a refraction index of 1.490 or less.
- 14. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material described in claim 13, wherein the high boiling organic solvent has a refraction index of 1.48 or less.
- 15. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material described in claim 13, wherein the high boiling organic solvent has a refraction index of 1.442 or less.
- 16. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material described in claim 1, wherein the high boiling organic solvent has a dielectric constant of 5.5 or less.
- 17. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material described in claim 1, wherein the high boiling organic solvent has a dielectric constant of 3.0 to 5.0.
- 18. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material described in claim 1, wherein the water insoluble polymer is a polymer consisting of a repetitive unit which is derived from styrene, α-methylstyrene or β-methylstyrene, or monomers obtained by providing substituents on the benzene rings thereof.
- 19. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material described in claim 1, wherein the water insoluble polymer has a number-average molecular weight of 1,000 to 4,500.
- 20. A method of forming an image comprising image-wise exposing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support and provided thereon a yellow color-developing light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta color-developing light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a cyan color-developing light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer each having a different color-sensitivity, wherein the magenta color-developing light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one non-diffusible dye-forming coupler represented by the following formula (M), a high boiling organic solvent having a dielectric constant of 6.0 or less and a refraction index of 1.50 or less, and at least one water insoluble polymer which has a number-average molecular weight of 200,000 or less and is obtained by polymerizing at least one monomer having an aromatic group: wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; Z represents a non-metal atomic group which is necessary to form a 5-membered azole ring containing 2 to 4 nitrogen atoms and the azole ring may contain a substituent; and X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of splitting off upon a coupling reaction with an oxidation product of a developing agent, wherein the dye-forming coupler represented by Formula (M) is represented by the following Formula (M-IIA) or (M-IIIA): wherein R21 represents a secondary or tertiary cycloalkyl group or a secondary or tertiary bicycloalkyl group; and R22 and R23 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent to allow an absorption wavelength of a magenta dye in the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material to shift to a shorter wavelength, and developing the exposed silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material.
- 21. A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support and provided thereon a yellow color-developing light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta color-developing light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a cyan color-developing light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer each having a different color-sensitivity, wherein the magenta color-developing light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one non-diffusible dye-forming coupler represented by the following Formula (M), a high boiling organic solvent having a dielectric constant of 6.0 or less and a refraction index of 1.50 or less, and at least one water insoluble polymer which is obtained by polymerizing at least one monomer having an aromatic group: wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; Z represents a non-metal atomic group which is necessary to form a 5-membered azole ring containing 2 to 4 nitrogen atoms and the azole ring may contain a substituent; and X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of splitting off upon a coupling reaction with an oxidation product of a developing agent, wherein the water insoluble polymer has a number-average molecular weight of 200,000 or less, wherein the dye-forming coupler represented by Formula (M) is represented by the following Formula (M-IIA) or (M-IIIA): wherein R21 in Formulas (M-IIA) and (M-IIIA) is a secondary or tertiary cycloalkyl group or a secondary or tertiary bicycloalkyl group and R22 and R23 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent.
- 22. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material described in claim 21, wherein R21 in Formulas (M-IIA) and (M-IIIA) is an adamantyl group, 2,2,2-bicycloctane-1-yl group, 1-alkylcyclopropane-1-yl group, 1-alkylcyclohexane-1-yl group, or 2,6-dialkylcyclohexane-1-yl group.
Priority Claims (2)
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Parent Case Info
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/287,920 filed Aug. 9, 1994, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference abandoned.
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