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US 2008/0145800 A1Published application
Photothermographic materials containing developer and co-developer
OwnerChaofeng Zou, Fong Vang +4inventors
InventorsChaofeng Zou, Fong Vang, Doreen C. Lynch, William D. Ramsden, Sharon M. Simpson, Kumars Sakizadeh
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Abstract
Use of a combination of a trisphenol reducing agent (developer) and a substituted olefinic co-developer in photothermographic materials provides a number of improvements including a reduction of sensitivity to high humidity and improved processing latitude.
Claims22
A photothermographic material comprising a support having on at least one side thereof, one or more photothermographic imaging layers comprising in reactive association:
- a. a photosensitive silver halide,
- b. a non-photosensitive source of reducible silver ions,
- c. a reducing agent composition for said reducible silver ions,
- d. a polymeric binder, and
- e. a substituted olefinic co-developer,
- wherein said reducing agent composition comprises a trisphenol reducing agent represented by the following Structure (I):
- wherein L1 and L2 are independently sulfur or a mono-substituted or unsubstituted methylene groups,
- R1 and R2 are independently primary or secondary substituted or unsubstituted alkyl groups having 1 to 12 carbon atoms,
- R3, R4, and R5 are independently substituted or unsubstituted alkyl groups having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy groups having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, or halo groups, and
- R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, and R11 are independently hydrogen or any substituent that is substitutable on a benzene ring.
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