Claims
- 1. A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon one or more light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, wherein at least one of said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers contains a phenol-type cyan coupler having at the second position of the benzene nucleus thereof a group selected from the group consisting of a phenol-ureido group, a naphthyl ureido group and a heterocyclic ureido group, and having at the fifth position thereof an acylamino group, and at least one of said light-sensitive silver emulsion layers contains a naphthol-type cyan coupler which is substantially colorless and has a hydrogen atom or a group capable of splitting off a compound which does not inhibit the development of the coupling reaction at a coupling position with the oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent,
- wherein said phenol-type cyan coupler is incorporated into a lower-speed emulsion layer having a color sensitivity and said naphthol-type cyan coupler is incorporated into a higher-speed emulsion having the same color sensitivity.
- 2. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein said phenol type cyan coupler is contained in a silver halide emulsion layer, in a quantity of 0.03 to 0.5 mole per mole of the silver halide of said layer.
- 3. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein said naphthol type cyan coupler is contained in a silver halide emulsion layer, in a quantity of 0.15 to 0.5 mole per mole of the silver halide of said layer.
- 4. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein said naphthol type cyan coupler is a two-equivalent coupler having a substituent at the active site thereof.
- 5. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein said phenol type cyan coupler is dispersed in a silver halide emulsion layer by being dissolved in an alkyl ester of phthalic acid.
- 6. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein said coupler having said Formula [II] are contained in said material in the quantity of 0.05-0.5 mole per mole of said coupler having said Formula [I] contained in said material.
- 7. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein said phenol-type cyan coupler has the following Formula [I] and said naphthol-type cyan coupler has the following Formula [II]: ##STR12## wherein X.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom or a group splittable by the coupling reaction with the oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent; R.sub.1 is a naphthyl group or a heterocyclic group (provided the carbon atom of the heterocyclic group is coupled to the nitrogen atom of the ureido group) or a phenyl group having at least one substituent selected from the class consisting of trifluoromethyl, nitro, cyano, --COR, --COOR, --SO.sub.2 R, --SO.sub.2 OR, ##STR13## wherein R is an aliphatic or aromatic group, and R' is a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic or aromatic group; and R.sub.2 is a ballasting group necessary to cause said cyan coupler having said Formula [I] and the cyan dye formed from said cyan coupler to be nondiffusible, ##STR14## wherein R.sub.3 is an aliphatic, an aromatic or a heterocyclic group; and X.sub.2 is a hydrogen atom or a group which can be split off by the coupling reaction with the oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent and which, after being split off, will not inhibit the development.
- 8. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 7 wherein said phenol type cyan coupler has the following Formula [Ia] or [Ib]: ##STR15## wherein Y.sub.1 is trifluoromethyl, nitro, cyano, --COR, --COOR, --SO.sub.2 R, SO.sub.2 OR, ##STR16## R is an aliphatic group or an aromatic group; R' is hydrogen or a group represented by R; Y.sub.2 is a monovalent group, m and n each is an integer of from 0 to 3, m+n.ltoreq.5, and Z is a group of nonmetallic atoms necessary to form a heterocyclic group or naphthyl group; R.sub.2 represents an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group necessary to cause a cyan coupler having Formula [I] and the cyan dye formed from the cyan coupler to be nondiffusible; and X is hydrogen or a group which can be split off during the coupling reaction with the oxidized product of a color developing agent.
- 9. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 8, wherein a aliphatic group represented by R in said Formulae [Ia] and [Ib] is an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms and an aromatic group represented by said R therein is a phenyl group.
- 10. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 8, wherein said monovalent group represented by Y.sub.2 in said respective Formulae [Ia] and [Ib] is an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a halogen atom, an amino group, a hydroxy group or a substituent represented by Y.sub.1 in said Formulae [Ia] and [Ib].
- 11. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 10, wherein said aliphatic group represented by Y.sub.2 in said Formula [Ia] and [Ib] is an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms and said aromatic group is a phenyl group or a naphthyl group.
- 12. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 8, wherein said group of nonmetallic atoms necessary to form a heterocyclic group or naphthyl group, represented by Z in said respective Formulae [Ia] and [Ib], is a 5- or 6-member heterocyclic ring containing 1 to 4 nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur atoms.
- 13. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 8, wherein said aliphatic group, aromatic group or heterocyclic group represented by R.sub.2 in said respective Formulae [Ia] and [Ib] is an alkyl group having 4 to 30 carbon atoms, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group.
- 14. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 8, wherein Y.sub.1 is SO.sub.2 R wherein R represents the same group as defined in claim 3, and m is 1 and n is 0.
- 15. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 7, wherein R.sub.3 in said Formula [II] is a ballasting group which causes said coupler and the cyan dye formed therefrom to be sufficiently nondiffusible.
- 16. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 7, wherein said split-off group capable of being split off by a coupling reaction, represented by X.sub.2 in said Formula [II], is a split-off group that is to be combined with a coupler residue by an oxygen atom.
- 17. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 16, wherein said split-off group to be combined with a coupler residue by an oxygen atom, which is represented by X.sub.2 in said Formula [II], is a group having the following Formula [IIa],
- --O--R.sub.7 --Z.sub.2 --R.sub.8 Formula [IIa]
- wherein R.sub.7 represents a saturated or unsaturated divalent aliphatic group or divalent aromatic group; Z.sub.2 represents ##STR17## --NHCO--, --SO--, --SO.sub.2 --, --NHSO.sub.2 --, --CO--, --COO--, --S--, --O--, or a mere bonding hand; and R.sub.8 and R.sub.9 each is a hydrogen atom or an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group.
- 18. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 17, wherein said aliphatic group represented by R.sub.8 and R.sub.9 in said Formula [IIa] is an alkyl group, said aromatic group is an aryl group and said heterocyclic group is the residue of a 5- or 6-member heterocyclic ring containing such hetero atom as nitrogen, sulfur, oxygen atom.
- 19. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 16, wherein said split-off group to be combined with a coupler residue by an oxygen atom, represented by X.sub.2 in said Formula [II], is a group having the following Formula [IIb],
- --O--(CH.sub.2).sub.n --Z.sub.3 --R.sub.8 Formula [IIb]
- wherein n is an integer of from 1 to 3; Z.sub.3 is ##STR18## --COO--, --CO--, or --SO.sub.2 --; and R.sub.8 and R.sub.9 are as defined in the R.sub.8 and the R.sub.9 of Formula [IIa].
- 20. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 7, wherein said R.sub.3 designated in said Formula [II] is an alkyl or a cycloalkyl group.
- 21. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material according to claim 7, wherein said couplers having said Formulae [I] and [II] respectively are contained in a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 526,882, filed Aug. 26, 1983, now abandoned.
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Research Disclosure, Item 17643, Dec. 1978. |
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