Color diffusion transfer photographic elements

A color diffusion transfer photographic element comprising a photosensitive element and an image receiving element wherein said photosensitive element contains a first support and a silver halide photosensitive layer and said photographic element is processed with an alkaline processing solution after imagewise exposure to obtain a dye image, said photosensitive element containing a compound represented by the formula ##STR60## wherein A represents oxygen or a group .dbd.NR (in which R represents hydroxyl or an amino group);

• X represents hydrogen or halogen;
• Z represents a group of nonmetallic atoms necessary to form a first ring and being a 5 to 7-membered non-aromatic hydrocarbon ring which may be fused with a second ring, at least one of said first and said second rings having one or more substituents wherein at least one of said substituents is a ballast group which renders said compound nondiffusible during processing with said solution;
• J represents a divalent group;
• D represents a dye moiety or a dye precursor moiety;
• and n represents zero or 1.

A color diffusion transfer photographic element comprising a first support having thereon an image receiving layer, said image receiving layer having thereon a silver halide photosensitive layer which contains a compound of the formula ##STR61## wherein A represents oxygen or a group .dbd.NR (in which R represents hydroxyl or an amino group);

• X represents hydrogen or halogen;
• Z represents a group of nonmetallic atoms necessary to form a first ring and being a 5 to 7-membered non-aromatic hydrocarbon ring which may be fused with a second ring, at least one of said first and said second rings having one or more substituents wherein at least one of said substituents is a ballast group which renders said compound nondiffusible during processing with said solution;
• J represents a divalent group;
• D represents a dye moiety or a dye precursor moiety;
• and n represents zero or 1.

A color diffusion transfer photographic element comprising, in order, a first support, an image receiving layer, and a pair of layers comprising a compound containing layer and a silver halide photosensitive layer, said compound containing layer containing a compound of the formula ##STR62## wherein A represents oxygen or a group .dbd.NR (in which R represents hydroxyl or an amino group);

• X represents hydrogen or halogen;
• Z represents a group of non-metallic atoms necessary to form a first ring and being a 5 to 7-membered non-aromatic hydrocarbon ring which may be fused with a second ring, at least one of said first and second rings having one or more substituents wherein at least one of said substituents is a ballast group which renders said compound nondiffusible during processing with an aqueous alkaline solution;
• J represents a divalent group;
• D represents a dye moiety or a dye precursor moiety;
• and n represents zero or 1.