Photographic products and processes employing heterocyclic azo dye developer compounds

In a photographic element comprising a support having thereon a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a diffusible cyan dye developer associated therewith, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a diffusible magenta dye developer associated therewith, and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a diffusible yellow dye developer associated therewith, the improvement wherein at least one of said dye developers has the following formula:

• ##STR13## wherein:
• Z represents the atoms necessary to complete a phenyl group;
• Z' represents a pyrazolotriazole nucleus;
• G is a metal chelating group, a salt thereof or a hydrolyzable precursor thereof;
• said compound also containing a silver halide developing moiety which is capable of developing an exposed silver halide emulsion under photographic processing conditions.

In a photographic assemblage to be processed by an alkaline processing composition, said assemblage comprising:

• (a) a photographic element comprising a support having thereon at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a diffusible dye developer compound;
• and
• (b) a dye image-receiving layer;
• the improvement wherein said dye developer has the following formula:
• ##STR14## wherein:
• Z represents the atoms necessary to complete a phenyl group;
• Z' represents a pyrazolotriazole nucleus;
• G is a metal chelating group, a salt thereof or a hydrolyzable precursor thereof;
• said compound also containing a silver halide developing moiety which is capable of developing an exposed silver halide emulsion under photographic processing conditions, and wherein said dye image-receiving layer or a layer adjacent thereto contains metal ions.

In a photographic assemblage comprising:

• (a) a photographic element comprising a support having thereon at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a diffusible dye developer compound;
• (b) a dye image-receiving layer;
• and
• (c) an alkaline processing composition and means for discharging same within said assemblage;
• said assemblage containing a silver halide developing agent, the improvement wherein said dye developer has the following formula:
• ##STR15## wherein:
• Z represents the atoms necessary to complete a phenyl group;
• Z' represents a pyrazolotriazole nucleus;
• G is a metal chelating group, a salt thereof or a hydrolyzable precursor thereof;
• said compound also containing a silver halide developing moiety which is capable of developing an exposed silver halide emulsion under photographic processing conditions, and wherein said dye image-receiving layer or a layer adjacent thereto contains metal ions.

In an integral photographic assemblage comprising:

• (a) a photosensitive element comprising an opaque support having thereon the following layers in sequence:
• a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a diffusible cyan dye developer associated therewith, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a diffusible magenta dye developer associated therewith, and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a diffusible yellow dye developer associated therewith;
• (b) a transparent sheet superposed over said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and comprising a transparent support having thereon, in sequence, a neutralizing layer, a timing layer and a dye image-receiving layer;
• and
• (c) a rupturable container containing an alkaline processing composition and an opacifying agent which is so positioned during processing of said assemblage that a compressive force applied to said container will effect a discharge of the container's contents between said transparent sheet and said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer;
• said assemblage containing a silver halide developing agent;
• the improvement wherein one of said dye developers has the following formula:
• ##STR17## wherein:
• Z represents the atoms necessary to complete a phenyl group;
• Z' represents a pyrazolotriazole nucleus;
• G is a metal chelating group, a salt thereof or a hydrolyzable precursor thereof;
• said compound also containing a silver halide developing moiety which is capable of developing an exposed silver halide emulsion under photographic processing conditions, and wherein said dye image-receiving layer or a layer adjacent thereto contains metal ions.

A process for producing photographic transfer image in color in an imagewise-exposed photographic element comprising a support having thereon at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a diffusible dye developer compound having the following formula:

• ##STR18## wherein:
• Z represents the atoms necessary to complete a phenyl group;
• Z' represents a pyrazolotriazole nucleus;
• G is a metal chelating group, a salt thereof or a hydrolyzable precursor thereof;
• said compound also containing a silver halide developing moiety which is capable of developing an exposed silver halide emulsion under photographic processing conditions, said process comprising:
• (a) treating said photographic element with an alkaline processing composition in the presence of a silver halide developing agent to effect development of each of the exposed silver halide emulsion layers;
• (b) forming an imagewise distribution of diffusible dye developer as a function of said imagewise exposure of each of said silver halide emulsion layers;
• (c) at least a portion of said imagewise distribution of said dye developer diffusing to a dye image-receiving layer;
• and
• (d) contacting said imagewise distribution of said dye developer with metal ions, thereby forming a metal-complexed, dye developer transfer image.