Abstract: Process for the formation of 1-H-pyrazolo[3,2-C]-1,2-4-triazoles useful in photographic chemistry as magenta couplers. The products have chlorine or bromine available at the coupling site, and the following formula: ##STR1## wherein X is chlorine or bromine, n is 0 to 6, and each R is an organic group as defined herein. The compounds are made from a hydrazone by reacting it ##STR2## with chlorine or bromine and a base. When the base is a substance such as sodium acetate, the reaction is conducted in one step. When the base is an amine such as a tertiary amine, reaction of (I) is conducted sequentially. Thus, in this second embodiment, (I) is first reacted with chlorine or bromine, and the reaction product thereby produced is treated with the tertiary amine.

Abstract: Dye-forming couplers provided by the invention are tris coupler compounds, each comprising three coupling moieties bonded to a phosphorous-containing tris linking group represented by ##STR1## has the structure (I): ##STR2## wherein each --R-- is independently a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene, alkoxylene, arylene, or aryloxylene group. Dyes of the invention are the dyes that are formed by coupling reaction of an oxidized photographic color developing agent and the new tris couplers of the invention. Photographic elements of the invention each comprise a support having thereon a photographic silver halide emulsion layer and one or more of the new tris couplers of the invention.

Abstract: A photographic element including a support bearing a silver halide photographic emulsion and an image dye-forming coupler, wherein the image dye-forming coupler includes a ballasted arylidene pyrazolone which is also a filter dye that upon exposure and processing of the element is destroyed in both exposed and unexposed areas of said element or a masking coupler that upon exposure and processing is destroyed only in exposed areas of the element. The arylidene pyrazolone compound includes an oxygen-inclusive electron donating group in conjugation with the arylidene function, preferably positioned para to the arylidene function.

Abstract: Photographic elements are described containing a polymeric dye-forming coupler that has been formed by emulsion polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of a high-boiling organic coupler solvent. Couplers of high activity are obtained.

Abstract: Photographic elements are described containing polymeric dye-forming couplers in which the polymer contains coupler moieties that upon reaction with oxidized color developing agent yield dyes of a least two different hues. In one embodiment a neutral dye is formed. In another embodiment a minor proportion of one coupler moiety is used to modify or current the spectral absorption characteristics of another coupler moiety.

Abstract: Novel yellow image dye-forming couplers are disclosed. The couplers comprise an active open-chain keto-methylene group, an anilide group attached to the keto-methylene group, and a cyclic ether group attached to the keto-methylene group. The cyclic ether group comprises two oxygen atoms. Either the anilide group or the cyclic ether may carry a ballast group capable of immobilizing the coupler in the layer in which it is contained. Color photographic elements incorporating the novel couplers are also disclosed.

Abstract: A coupler having as a coupling-off group an alkyl group substituted with an electron source capable of stabilizing carbonium ion.

Abstract: There are described color photographic elements containing novel release compounds which rapidly release a photographically useful group, such as a development inhibitor, from a timing group.

Abstract: Process for the introduction of functional or functionalizable substituents para to the amino group in 2-aminophenols and 3-aminophenols. The process proceeds in one step, with substitution occurring selectively at the position para to the amino group. Consequently, the reaction is surprisingly straightforward, with very little or no contamination by isomeric by-products. The process comprises reaction of (a) an aminophenol having an open para position to the amino function, with (b) an unhindered non-enolizable aldehyde, and (c) a thiol or sulfinic acid which acts as a nucleophile. In preferred embodiments, the process is conducted at a temperature of from about 50.degree. C. to about 100.degree. C., and in the presence of a polar solvent. The reaction is promoted by an acid having sufficient acidity to protonate the amino group of the aminophenol. Preferably, the acid promoter is a mineral acid, and it is present in an amount at least substantially equivalent to the amount of aminophenol reactant.

Abstract: There are described color photographic elements containing novel release compounds which rapidly release a photographically useful group, such as a development inhibitor, from a timing group.

Abstract: Color photographic elements comprise a support, a silver halide emulsion layer and a polymeric dye-forming coupler comprising a polyester condensation polymer having a pendant coupler moiety in which the coupler is joined via its coupling position.

Abstract: Tetrahydroquinoline rings fused to a phenolic ring form novel cyan due-forming coupler compounds which produce dyes having improved resistance to ferrous ion reduction.Photographic recording materials containing such coupler compounds are also disclosed.

Abstract: Process for the introduction of functional or functionalizable substituents para to the amino group in 2-aminophenols and 3-aminophenols. The process proceeds in one step, with substitution occurring selectively at the position para to the amino group. Consequently, the reaction is surprisingly straightforward, with very little or no contamination by isomeric by-products. The process comprises reaction of (a) an aminophenol having an open para position to the amino function, with (b) an unhindered non-enolizble aldehyde, and (c) a thiol or sulfinic acid which acts as a nucleophile. In preferred embodiments, the process is conducted at a temperature of from about 50.degree. C. to about 100.degree. C., and in the presence of a polar solvent. The reaction is promoted by an acid having sufficient acidity to protonate the amino group of the aminophenol. Preferably, the acid promoter is a mineral acid, and it is present in an amount at least substantially equivalent to the amount of aminophenol reactant.

Abstract: The reduction of cyan image dye to a leuco compound in a color photographic element by ferrous ion contained in a bleach processing solution is inhibited by the presence in the element of a polymeric latex having recurring units that are derived from certain lower alkoxyacrylate monomers optionally copolymerized with recurring units derived from certain acrylic ionomers.

Abstract: Color photographic elements contain polymeric dye-forming couplers in which the coupler moiety is joined to the polymer backbone via a linking group containing an ether moiety. Increased dye density yield is obtained.

Abstract: A photographic masking coupler containing in the coupling position a coupling-off group that is capable of reacting with oxidized color developing agent to form a water-insoluble dye in non-image areas and a water-soluble compound in image areas of a color photographic element enables formation of a colored integral mask for color correction upon exposure and processing of the element. The masking couplers are essentially colorless in a color photographic element. Such a photographic masking coupler is advantageous in a color photographic element and process.

Abstract: The bleaching from photographic elements of silver produced by the development of silver halide having a dye adsorbed to its surface by employing as a bleaching agent a ferric complex of a polycarboxylic acid is improved by the presence of a compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein Ar is an aromatic linking group,R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 are hydroxy substituted lower alkyl groups,R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are lower alkanediyl groups,X is a charge balancing counter ion,x and y are 0 or 1, andz is 0, 1, or 2.

Abstract: Photographic reagents can be released, under alkaline conditions, from certain photographic reagent releasing compounds by means of oxidized 3-pyrazolidone developing agents. Particularly useful are acyclic and cyclic compounds in which the photographic reagent is linked, through a hetero atom, to a carbon atom which is adjacent to or in conjugation with a carbonyl group or an imino group. Upon reaction, under alkaline conditions, with an oxidized 3-pyrazolidone developing agent, the bond between the hetero atom and the carbon atom is cleaved. Photographic assemblages containing photographic reagent releasing compounds and processes of releasing photographic reagents in photographic elements and assemblages are described.

Abstract: Couplers of good reactivity contain an aryloxy coupling-off group having in an ortho position a polarizable carbonyl, sulfonyl or phosphinyl substituent group which is free of photographic dye groups and photographic reagent groups.

Abstract: Couplers of good reactivity contain an aryloxy coupling-off group having in an ortho position a polarizable carbonyl, sulfonyl or phosphinyl substituent group which is free of photographic dye groups and photographic reagent groups.