Processing latitude stabilizers for photothermographic materials

A black-and-white photothermographic material comprising a support having on at least one side thereof, one or more photothermographic emulsion layers comprising in reactive association:

• a. a photosensitive silver halide that is silver bromide or silver iodobromide that is present predominantly in cubic or tabular grains,
• b. a non-photosensitive source of reducible silver ions comprising at least silver behenate,
• c. a reducing agent is one or more of tris-phenol reducing agents represented by Structures (TP-1) or (TP-2) that is present in an amount of from about 1 to about 5 mmol/m2,
• d. a polymeric binder is a polyvinyl butyral or polyvinyl acetal, and
• e. one or more processing latitude stabilizers represented by Structures (I) or (II),
• wherein Ra represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or cycloalkyl group of 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl or naphthyl group,
• Rb represents 2,4-dichlorophenylcarboxyl, 1,3,5-trichlorophenylcarboxyl, or 2-chloro-4-nitrophenylcarboxyl group,
• Rc represents an alkoxy substituted phenyl or naphthyl group wherein the alkoxy group has 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and
• f. a substituted olefinic co-developer represented by the following Structure (IV):
• wherein V and W are independently aromatic groups or electron withdrawing groups, provided that at least one of V and W is an electron withdrawing group having a Hammett σp greater than 0.35, or V and W can represent the atoms necessary to form a ring containing such an electron withdrawing group, and R′ is hydroxyl, acyloxy, or, —O—A+, and
• wherein the total amount of silver is present in an amount of at least 1 g/m2 and less than or equal to 2.6 g/m2.