Publication number: 20050008974
Abstract: The invention relates to an optical recording medium comprising a substrate and a recording layer, wherein the recording layer comprises a complex of formula (I), or wherein Q2 is a ligand of formula (II), or a tautomer thereof, and R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, and R8 are each dependently of the others H, halogen, cyano, COOR9, CONHR9, CONR9R10, R9, OR9, SR9, NHR9 or NR9R10, wherein R9 and R10 are each independently of the other C6-C10aryl, C4-C9heteroaryl or linear or branched C1-C24alkyl, C3-C24cycloallyl, C2-C24alkenyl, C3-C24cycloalkenyl, C2-C24alkynyl, C1-C12heterocycloalkyl, C1-C12heterocycloalkenyl, unsubstituted or substituted, it also being possible for R1 and R2, R3 and R4, R5 and R6, and R7 and R8, independently of one another, to be bonded by a direct bond or via a bridge O or S, Mm+ is a transition metal cation having 5 or 6 electrons in the outermost occupied d-shell, L1 is a ligand having a sub-structure N—C, P—C or As—C, L2, independently of L1, is a further ligand containing at least one heter
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 7, 2002
Publication date:
January 13, 2005
Inventors:
Colin Morton, Taher Yousaf, Jean-Luc Budry, Beat Schmidhalter, Heinz Spahni
Publication number: 20040142137
Abstract: The invention relates to an optical recording medium, comprising a substrate and a recording layer, wherein the recording layer comprises a compound of formula (I), wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9,R10, R11, R12 and R13 are each independently of the others hydrogen, G1 or C1-C24alkyl, C2-C24alkenyl, C2-C24alkynyl, C3-C24cycloalkyl, C3-C24cycloalkenyl, C7-C24aralkyl, C6-C24aryl, C4-C12heteroaryl or C1-C12heterocycloalkyl, each unsubstituted or substituted by one or more identical or different substituents G1, wherein R1 and R2, R1 and R13, R2 and R3, R3 and R4, R4 and R5, R5 and R6, R6 and R7, R7 and R8, R8 and R9, R9 and R10, R10 and R11, R11 and R12 and/or R12 and R13 can independently of one another be bonded to one another in pairs separately or, when they contain substitutable sites, via a direct bond or via a —CH2—, —O—, —S—, —NH— or —NC1-C24alkyl-bridge in such a manner that, together with the atoms and bonds indicated in formula (I), five-
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 8, 2004
Publication date:
July 22, 2004
Inventors:
Urs Lehmann, Peter Aeschlimann, Peter Sutter, Beat Schmidhalter, Jean-Luc Budry, Heinz Sphani
Patent number: 6245403
Abstract: The invention relates to an optical storage medium comprising a substrate and a storage layer, wherein the storage layer comprises a compound of the formula (I) or (II)
in which A and A′, independently of one another, are unsubstituted or mono- or di-halo-, -hydroxy-, —C1-C6alkyl-, —C1-C6alkoxy-, -cyano- or -nitro-substituted phenyl, pyridyl, pyrrolyl, imidazolyl, furyl or thienyl, which can, if desired, be fused to a benzene ring, are halide, tetrafluoroborate or unsubstituted or with one or more halogen substituted C1-C6alkane-sulfonate, benzenesulfonate, C1-C6alkylbenzenesulfonate, C1-C6alkylsulfate or di-C1-C6alkyl-phosphonate of N—C1-C6alkyl-pyridiniumyl, or are unsubstituted or mono- or di-hydroxy-substituted C2-C6alkyl or C2-C6alkenyl, whose chain may be uninterrupted or interrupted by one or two oxygen atoms, B and B′, independently of one another, are 2 H, S, S2 or SO2, and n and n′, independently of one another, are each a number from 1 to 4.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 29, 1998
Date of Patent:
June 12, 2001
Assignee:
Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
Inventors:
Heinz Spahni, Jin Mizuguchi, Beat Schmidhalter, Annemarie Wolleb, Jean-Luc Budry, Gérald Giller
Patent number: 5851621
Abstract: The invention relates to an optical recording medium comprising a substrate, a reflecting layer and a recording layer, which recording layer consists essentially of a dye of the formula (I), ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.6 are hydrogen or unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aralkyl or aryl,R.sub.6 and R.sub.7 are unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aralky or aryl,R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.8 and R.sub.9 are hydrogen, halogen, OR.sub.17, SR.sub.17, NR.sub.18 R.sub.19, NO.sub.2, alkyl, alkenyl or Alkynyl,R.sub.5 and R.sub.10 are hydrogen, halogen, OR.sub.17, SR.sub.17, NO.sub.2, NR.sub.18 R.sub.19 or unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl or aralkyl, andR.sub.11 is hydrogen, (CH.sub.2).sub.1-10 COO.sup.-, (CH.sub.2).sub.1-10 COOR.sub.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 23, 1997
Date of Patent:
December 22, 1998
Assignee:
Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
Inventors:
Heinz Wolleb, Beat Schmidhalter, Jean-Luc Budry