Abstract: A direct positive silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is described, comprising a support having coated thereon a light-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsion layer and a hydrophilic colloid layer, at least one of said layers containing a compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents R.sup.6 or R.sup.6 CO--; and R.sup.6 represents an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic aromatic group or hydrogen; R.sup.2 and R.sup.4, which may be the same or different, each represents an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic aromatic group or a hydrogen atom; or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 together can form a ring; R.sup.3 represents hydrogen or an aliphatic group; R.sup.5 represents Y or X--A--Y wherein X and Y, which may be the same or different, each represents a divalent aromatic group; and A represents a divalent group selected from --CONH--, --NHCONH--, --SO.sub.2 NH--, --B--CONH-- and --B--SO.sub.

Abstract: Photographic elements, diffusion transfer assemblages and processes are described which employ a novel nondiffusible compound having a releasable 6-arylazo-3-pyridinol magenta dye moiety or precursor thereof having the formula: ##STR1## wherein: (a) R represents hydroxy or amino;(b) R.sup.1 represents hydrogen, a hydrolyzable moiety or CAR;(c) G represents carboxy; a hydrolyzable ester or a sulfamoyl group;(d) CAR represents a ballasted carrier moiety capable of releasing the diffusible 6-arylazo-3-pyridinol dye moiety or precursor thereof under alkaline conditions; and(e) n is 0, 1 or 2, with the proviso that when n is 0, then R.sup.1 is CAR.

Abstract: A photosensitive recording material containing at least one silver halide layer and an azo dye is disclosed.

Abstract: Novel azo dye-providing compounds and photographic elements containing such compounds are described. The present compounds contain a carrier moiety which, as a function of oxidation under alkaline conditions, provides a substance having a mobility different than that of the starting compound.

Abstract: A photographic light-sensitive sheet for the color diffusion transfer process which comprises a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a dye image providing material represented by the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein Q.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a sulfamoyl group represented by the formula --SO.sub.2 NR.sup.3 R.sup.4 wherein R.sup.3 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sup.4 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, an aralkyl group or an aryl group; and R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 may combine directly or through an oxygen atom to form a ring; a group represented by the formula --SO.sub.2 R.sup.5 wherein R.sup.5 represents an alkyl group or a benzyl group; a carboxy group, a group represented by the formula --COOR.sup.6 wherein R.sup.6 represents an alkyl group, a phenyl group or a substituted phenyl group or a group represented by the formula --CONR.sup.3 R.sup.4 wherein R.sup.3 and R.sup.

Abstract: A photographic light-sensitive element for the color diffusion transfer process which comprises a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer with at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers having associated therewith a dye releasing redox compound represented by the following general formula:D-Redox Moietywherein D represents a dye moiety and Redox Moiety represents a group represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X.sup.1 represents an --SO.sub.2 -- group or a --CO-- group; R.sup.1 represents an unsubstituted straight chain alkylene group having 2 or more carbon atoms or an unsubstituted branched chain alkylene group having 2 or more carbon atoms with the proviso the branched chain alkylene group is incapable of forming an acetal linkage; R.sup.2 represents an alkyl group; and Y represents an o- or p-hydroxyarylsulfamoyl group having a ballast group bonded thereto.

Abstract: There are described novel magenta 1:1 chrome-complexed dye developers which are particularly useful in photographic products and processes. These novel magenta dye developers are ionic salts which include a cation and a colorless ligand which is a radical of an iminodiacetic acid.

Abstract: There are described novel magenta chrome complexed dye developers which are particularly useful in photographic products and processes. These novel magenta dye developers are zwitterionic compounds which include an onium salt such as a quaternary ammonium salt and a colorless ligand which is a radical of an iminodiacetic acid.

Abstract: A nondiffusible sulfonamido compound which is alkali-cleavable upon oxidation to release a diffusible photographically useful material, said nondiffusible sulfonamido compound having the formula: ##STR1## wherein: (a) R.sup.1 is alkyl, aryl sulfamyl, carbamyl, carbonamido, carbonyl, carbonyloxy or sulfonamido;(b) R.sup.2 is alkyl having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, aryl, or alkylphenyl having from 7 to 12 carbon atoms;(c) R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are independently alkyl, or aryl, or R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, taken together, form a fused carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring;(d) NHSO.sub.2 PUG represents a sulfonamido group;(e) PUG represents a photographically useful group; and(f) at least one of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, or R.sup.

Abstract: A light-sensitive photographic element comprising a support and at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer coated thereon having associated therewith a magenta image dye-providing compound which releases a magenta dye or a precursor thereof corresponding to the imagewise exposure of said emulsion layer, said magenta dye-providing compound being a compound represented by formula [I]: ##STR1## wherein Car represents a carrier moiety which can be oxidized under alkaline conditions to release a diffusible dye or a precursor thereof from said compound;R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, which may be the same or different, independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms (provided that the total sum of carbon atoms in R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 does not exceed 5), or R.sup.1 and R.sup.

Abstract: A photographic light-sensitive sheet for the color diffusion transfer process which comprises a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a compound represented by the following general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein Q.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom; a halogen atom; a sulfamoyl group represented by the formula --SO.sub.2 NR.sup.3 R.sup.4 wherein R.sup.3 represents a hydrogen atom, or an alkyl group, m represents 0 or 1, R.sup.4 represents a hydrogen atom or R.sup.4a wherein R.sup.4a represents an alkyl group, an aralkyl group or a phenyl group, and R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 may combined directly or through an oxygen atom to form a ring; a group represented by the formula --SO.sub.2 R.sup.5 wherein R.sup.5 represents an alkyl group or an aralkyl group; a carboxy group; a group represented by the formula --COOR.sup.6 wherein R.sup.6 represents an alkyl group or a phenyl group; or a group represented by the formula --CONR.sup.3 R.sup.4 wherein R.sup.

Abstract: Photographic elements, diffusion transfer assemblages and processes are described which employ a novel dye developer compound having a dye moiety such as an arylazopyrazolotriazole. The compound contains:(a) a nitrogen atom in a metal chelating location in at least one of the rings attached to the azo group;(b) in the ortho position of the arylazo moiety a metal chelating group (or a salt thereof or a hydrolyzable precursor thereof), and(c) a silver halide developer moiety.The dye developer is transferred imagewise to an image-receiving layer where it is contacted with metal ions to form a metal-complexed dye developer transfer image of excellent stability.

Abstract: A photographic light-sensitive sheet for the color diffusion transfer process which comprises a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a magenta dye releasing redox (DRR) compound.

Abstract: Photographic elements, diffusion transfer assemblages and processes are described which employ a novel dye developer compound having a dye moiety such as an arylazo-pyrazolotriazole. The compound contains:(a) a nitrogen atom in a metal chelating location in at least one of the rings attached to the azo group;(b) in the ortho position of the arylazo moiety a metal chelating group (or a salt thereof or a hydrolyzable precursor thereof), and(c) a silver halide developer moiety.The dye developer is transferred imagewise to an image-receiving layer where it is contacted with metal ions to form a metal-complexed dye developer transfer image of excellent stability.

Abstract: A light-sensitive photographic element comprising a support and at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer coated thereon having associated therewith a cyan image dye-providing compound which releases a cyan dye or a precursor thereof corresponding to the imagewise exposure of said emulsion layer, said cyan image dye-providing compound being a compound represented by formula [I] or [II]: ##STR1## wherein Car, R.sup.1, R.sup.2, X, Y.sup.1, Y.sup.2, m, J.sup.1 and J.sup.2 are defined in the specification and claims.

Abstract: A photographic light-sensitive sheet for the color diffusion transfer process which comprises a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer with at least one of said silver halide emulsion layers having associated therewith a compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Q represents a cyano group, a trifluoromethyl group or a carbamoyl group represented by the formula --CONR.sup.3 R.sup.4 wherein R.sup.3 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sup.4 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aralkyl group or an aryl group; and R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 may combine directly or through an oxygen atom to form a ring; M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a sulfamoyl group represented by the formula --SO.sub.2 NR.sup.3 R.sup.4, wherein R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are as defined above, a group represented by the formula --COOR.sup.5 wherein R.sup.

Abstract: For the production of cyan and magenta images by the dye diffusion transfer process dye-providing compounds of the formula I are suitable ##STR1## in which A=an oxydizable carrier residue containing a diffusion-preventing radical;n= 0 or 1;P=a monocyclic aromatic radical;M=hydrogen, halogen, alkyl sulfonyl, aryl sulfonyl or sulfamoyl;Q=acylamino;R.sup.1 =hydrogen or a hydrolyzable radical.

Abstract: In a dry physical development photothermographic element for a dry thermal silver-dye bleach process wherein the element comprises a silver halide complexing concentration of a silver halide complexing agent improvements are provided when the complexing agent is an organic ammonium chloride, bromide or iodide. After imagewise exposure of the element, a dye image can be produced by uniformly heating the element. Improvements are also produced by providing a dry activator element for producing a dye image in a separate photographic element by means of a dry physical development thermal dye-bleach process, wherein the activator element comprises a support having thereon a layer comprising a synthetic hydrophobic polymeric binder, a silver halide complexing concentration of a silver halide complexing agent, as described, a bleachable dye and a thermal solvent.

Abstract: Aromatic nitro compounds are disclosed where the aromatic ring contains electron-withdrawing groups and said aromatic nitro compound is capable of undergoing intramolecular nucleophilic displacement after reduction of the nitro group. The compounds are especially useful in photographic elements where an image dye-providing material or a photographic reagent are released upon cleavage from the compound.

Abstract: Non-diffusible dye-providing components which may be used in association with a silver halide emulsion layer and on development yield diffusible yellow dyes of improved light fastness are cyanalkyl aminoazo dyes of the formula ##STR1## in which A.sup.1 represents oxidizable carrier residue;D represents a heterocyclic or carbocyclic aromatic residue completing an azo dye; and1, m and n are 0 or 1 such that1+m+n=1;and r represents an integer of from 1 to 4.

Abstract: Photographic elements, diffusion transfer assemblages and processes are described which employ a novel nondiffusible compound having a novel releasable azo dye. The dyes are azophenols, or precursors of azophenols, and have an electron withdrawing group in one of the positions ortho to the phenolic hydroxy group and a carbamoyl electron withdrawing group in the other position ortho to the phenolic hydroxy group.