Light-sensitive silver halide photographic material incorporating metal complex with high quenching constant and an oil soluble dye

A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material having a silver halide emulsion layer containing a coupler on a support, comprising at least one of the metal complexes having a quenching constant of singlet oxygen of 3.times.10.sup.7 M.sup.-1.sec.sup.-1 or higher and at least one of oil-soluble dyes;

• and wherein
• said metal complexes are at least one selected from the group consisting of the compounds represented by the formulae (II) to (V) shown below:
• ##STR243## wherein M represents a metal atom;
• X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 each represent an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or --NR.sup.7 -- where R.sup.7 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a hydroxyl group;
• X.sup.3 represents a hydroxy group or a mercapto group;
• Y represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom;
• R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a cyano group;
• or an alkyl group, an aryl group, a cycloalkyl group or a heterocyclic group each of which is bonded directly or through a divalent linking group to the carbon atom, at least one of the combinations of R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, and R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 may be linked together to form a 5- or 6-membered ring together with the carbon atom bonded thereto;
• Z.sup.0 represents a compound coordinatable with M or a residue thereof, ##STR244## wherein R.sub.21, R.sub.22, R.sub.23 and R.sub.24 each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a hydroxy group, a cyano group;
• or an alkyl group, an aryl group, a cycloalkyl group or a heterocyclic group each of which is bonded directly or indirectly through a divalent linking group to the carbon atom on the benzene ring, and R.sub.21 and R.sub.22, R.sub.22 and R.sub.23 or R.sub.23 and R.sub.24 may be bonded together to form a 6-membered ring;
• R.sub.25 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group;
• A represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a hydroxy group;
• and M represents a nickel atom.