Methine dye and silver halide photographic light-sensitive material containing the same

Abstract

A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said emulsion layer contains a compound represented by the following formula (1): Dye1[Parenopenst]L1[Parenopenst]Dye2)m1)m2  (1) wherein Dye1 represents a cyanine chromophore, Dye2 represents a merocyanine dye having in the acid nucleus thereof at least one dissociative group having a pKa of 5 or less, and L1 represents a linking group represented by -G1-(A1-G2)t1-(wherein G1 and G2 each independently represents an alkylene, alkenylene or arylene group which may be substituted, A1 represents, irrespective of the direction, —O—, —S—, —SO2—, —NR3—, —COO—, —CONR4— or —SO2NR5— (wherein R3 to R5 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group) and t1 represents an integer of 1 to 10), m1 represents an integer of 1 to 5, and m2 represents an integer of 1 to 5.

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