Cyanine dyes
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Hayashibara Seibutsu Kagaku Kenkyujo
InventorsChiaki Kasada, Yasushi Aizawa, Toshio Kawata, Shigeo Yasui
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Abstract
The present invention provides organic dye compounds having their absorption maxima in a region ranging from the ultraviolet region to a relatively short wavelength visible region and uses thereof. The present invention provides specific monomethine cyanine dyes, light absorbents and optical recording media comprising the monomethine cyanine dyes, and a process for producing the monomethine cyanine dyes which comprises a step of reacting a quaternary ammonium salt of nitrogen atom-containing heterocyclic compound having a reactive methyl group with a quaternary ammonium salt of nitrogen atom-containing heterocyclic compound having an appropriate leaving group.
Claims2
A light absorbent composition applied to an optical recording medium substrate having a track pitch of below 0.74 microns comprising (a) a monomethine cyanine dye of Formula 1 which has an absorption maximum at a wavelength of 450 nm or less when in a thin layer form;
- and (b) organic dye compounds other than said monomethine cyanine dye, said organic dye compounds being sensitive to a laser beam with a wavelength of 775 to 795 nm:
- ø1−CH=ø2 Formula 1:
- wherein in Formula 1, ø1 is a heterocyclic group represented by Formula 5 and ø2 is a heterocyclic group represented by any one of Formulae 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8 as resonance structures;
- wherein throughout Formulae 2 to 5, Z represents an optionally substituting mono- or polycyclic aromatic ring or heterocycle which condenses to a nitrogen atom-containing five-membered heterocycle;
- throughout Formulae 2 to 8, R1 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group and R2 represent hydrogen atom or the same or different aliphatic hydrocarbon group as in R1, wherein the aliphatic hydrocarbon groups may have a substituent, and in Formulae 2 to 8, X− represents an azo metal complex anion being a member selected from the group consisting of:
- and (i) optionally at least one formazan metal complex.
An optical recording medium which records information at a pit width of below 0.5 μm/pit and a track pitch of below 0.74 μm by using a laser beam with a wavelength of 450 nm or less as a writing light and has a recording capacity of over 4.7 giga bytes (GB) per side when formed into a disk, 12 cm in diameter, said optical recording medium comprising (a) a monomethine cyanine dye of Formula 1, Formula 1 which has an absorption maximum at a wavelength of 450 nm or less when in a thin layer form;
- and (b) one or more members selected from the group consisting of organic dye compounds other than said monomethine cyanine dye, said organic dye compounds being sensitive to a laser beam with a wavelength of 775 to 795 nm:
- ø1−CH=ø2 Formula 1:
- wherein in Formula 1, ø1 is a heterocyclic group represented by Formula 5 and ø2 is a heterocyclic groups represented by any one of Formulae 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8 as resonance structures;
- wherein throughout Formulae 2 to 5, Z represents an optionally substituting mono- or polycyclic aromatic ring or heterocycle which condenses to a nitrogen atom-containing five-membered heterocycle;
- throughout Formulae 2 to 8, R1 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group and R2 represents a hydrogen atom or the same or different aliphatic hydrocarbon group as in R1, wherein the aliphatic hydrocarbon groups may have a substituent, and in Formulae 2 to 8, X− represents an azo metal complex anion being a member selected from the group consisting of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.