Claims
- 1. A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, which are formed on a support, wherein the blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one acylacetamide yellow dye-forming coupler represented by formula (I), and the red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one cyan coupler represented by formula (II) or (III):
- where R.sup.1 represents an alkyl group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, Q represents a nonmetallic atomic group required to form, together with C, a 3- to 5-membered carbocyclic ring or a 3- to 5-membered heterocyclic ring containing at least one heteroatom selected from the group consisting of N, S, O, and P in the ring, R.sup.1 is not hydrogen and does not combine with Q to form a ring, and Y.sub.R represents a residue remaining after removing an acyl group: ##STR46## from the acylacetamide yellow dye-forming coupler; ##STR47## where, in formula (II), R.sup.21 represents an alkyl group; in formula (III), R.sup.21 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group; and in formula (II) or (III), R.sup.22 represents an alkyl group having 2 or more carbon atoms, R.sup.23 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a carbonamido group, or a ureido group, R.sup.24 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, or an amino group, X' represents a hydrogen atom or a coupling-off group, and Y represents an alkyl group or an aryloxy group.
- 2. The light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein the cyan coupler represented by formula (II) or (III) is contained in an amount of at least 60 mol % based on the total amount of all cyan couplers used.
- 3. The light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein, in formula (II), R.sup.21 represents an alkyl group having 2 to 8 carbon atoms, R.sub.22 represents ethyl, R.sup.23 represents chlorine, X' represents chlorine, and Y represents 2,4-di-tert-amylphenoxy.
- 4. The light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein the acylacetamide yellow dye-forming coupler is represented by formula (Y) : ##STR48## wherein R.sup.1 and Q are defined as in formula (I); R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkoxy group, and aryloxy group, an alkyl group, or an amino group; R.sup.3 represents a group which can be substituted on the benzene ring and is selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, a carbonamido group, a sulfonamido group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfamoyl group, an alkysulfonyl group, a ureido group, a sulfamoylamino group, an alkoxycarbonylamino group, an alkoxysulfonyl group, an acyloxy group, nitro, a heterocyclic group, cyano, an acyl group, an alkylsulfonyloxy group, and an arylsulfonyloxy group, X represents a hydrogen atom or a group which can be split off upon a coupling reaction with an oxidized form of an aromatic primary amine developing agent, and L represents an integer from 0 to 4, such that if L represents a plural number each R.sup.3 group may be the same or different.
- 5. The light-sensitive material according to claim 4, wherein X is a heterocyclic group which combines with a coupling active site by nitrogen, an aryloxy group, an arylthio group, an acyloxy group, an alkylsulfonyloxy group, an arylsulfonyloxy group, a heterocyclic oxy group, and a halogen atom.
- 6. The light-sensitive material according to claim 4, wherein R.sup.1 is a substituted alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, wherein substituents of said substituted alkyl group are selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, nitro, an amino group, a carbonamido group, a sulfonamido group, and an acyl group.
- 7. The light sensitive material according to claim 4, wherein Q represents a non-metallic atomic group required to form together with C, a substituted or unsubstituted 3- to 5-membered carbocyclic ring which has 3 to 30 carbon atoms, and a substituted or unsubstituted 3- to 5-membered heterocyclic group which contains at least one heteroatom selected from N, S, O, and P, and has 2 to 30 carbon atoms wherein substituents for said carbocyclic and heterocyclic rings are selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, hydroxyl, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an acyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, cyano, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an alkylthio group, and an arylthio group.
- 8. The light-sensitive material according to claim 4, wherein R.sup.2 represents a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aryloxy group having 6 to 30 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, and a substituted or unsubstituted amino group, having 0 to 30 carbons, wherein substituents for said alkoxy group, aryloxy group, alkyl group and amino group are selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, and a aryloxy group.
- 9. The light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein in formula (II) R.sup.21 is ethyl or butyl; Y is an alkyl group of 8 to 12 carbon atoms or an aryloxy group having one or two substituents selected from a chlorine atom, t-butyl, t-amyl and t-octyl; R.sup.22 is ethyl; and R.sup.23 is a hydrogen atom.
- 10. The light sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein in formula (III) R.sup.21 is heptafluoropropyl, 2-chlorophenyl, 2,6-dichlorophenyl, or pentafluorophenyl; R.sup.23 is a hydrogen atom; and R.sup.24 is an alkyl group or the same group as R.sup.21.
- 11. The light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein R.sup.1 is ethyl, n-propyl, n-butyl or benzyl.
Priority Claims (1)
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO THE RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/876,404 filed on Apr. 30, 1992, now abandoned.
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