Silver halide color photographic materials containing combinations of magenta couplers and sensitizing dyes

A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having on one side thereof at least one silver halide emulsion layer corresponding to each of the colors cyan, magenta, and yellow in which each of the colors cyan, magenta and yellow, respectively, are formed, wherein the layer which forms a magenta color is a green sensitive layer comprising:

• (A) at least one coupler represented by formula (I) or formula (II) below:
• ##STR29## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group;
• R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent group;
• and
• X represents a hydrogen atom or a coupling elimination group;
• ##STR30## wherein R.sub.1 is defined the same as R.sub.1 in formula (I);
• R.sub.2 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group or a heterocyclicthio group;
• and
• X is defined the same as in formula (I);
• and
• (B) silver halide grains which have been spectrally sensitized in such a way that they have a peak sensitivity between 540 nm and 555 nm by at least one spectrally sensitizing dye represented by the formulae (A), (B) and (C) below:
• ##STR31## wherein W.sub.1 and W.sub.2 each represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group;
• V.sub.1, V.sub.2 and V.sub.3 and V.sub.4 each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an amido group, an alkoxycarbonyl group or a cyano group;
• V.sub.1 and V.sub.2, or V.sub.3 and V.sub.4 may be the same or different, and they may represent a condensed benzene ring;
• V.sub.5 and V.sub.6 may be the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an amido group, an alkoxycarbonyl group or a cyano group;
• the subscripts o, p, q, r, s, and t each represents an integer of from 1 to 4 and when the subscripts each represents an integer of from 2 to 4, V.sub.1 's, V.sub.2 's, V.sub.3 'S, or V.sub.4 's may be the same or different;
• R.sub.21, R.sub.22, R.sub.23, R.sub.24, R.sub.25, R.sub.26, R.sub.27, R.sub.28 and R.sub.29 each represents an alkyl group or an aralkyl group, provided that at least one of R.sub.21 and R.sub.22 ;
• at least one of R.sub.23, R.sub.24 and R.sub.25 ;
• or at least one of R.sub.26, R.sub.27, R.sub.28, and R.sub.29 represents an alkyl group or an aralkyl group which contains a sulfo group or a salt thereof, a carboxyl group or a salt thereof, or a hydroxyl group;
• Y represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom;
• X.sub.1, X.sub.2 and X.sub.3 represent acid anions;
• and
• l, m and n represents 0 or 1, and l, m and n represents 0 when each compound is an intramolecular salt;
• provided that the speed at the spectral sensitivity peak wavelength of said green sensitive layer is 2.5 times or more of the speed at 500 nm and,
• wherein said silver halide grains are cubic silver chlorobromide having an average silver chloride content of 99 mol % and silver bromide content of 1 mol % and having a silver bromide rich phase at the corner of the cube, wherein the average silver bromide content on the surface of the silver halide grains is about 5 mol % and the silver bromide rich phase has a maximum silver bromide content of about 50 mol % and wherein said silver halide grains have an average particle size of 0.48 .mu.m and a variation coefficient of 0.10.