(19)
(11) EP 0 193 389 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
23.11.1988 Bulletin 1988/47

(43) Date of publication A2:
03.09.1986 Bulletin 1986/36

(21) Application number: 86301365

(22) Date of filing: 26.02.1986
(84) Designated Contracting States:
BE DE FR GB NL

(30) Priority: 28.02.1985 US 707115

(71) Applicant: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY (a New Jersey corporation)
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(72) Inventors:
  • Hall, Jeffrey Louis
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  • Kilminster, Kenneth Norman
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  • Romanet, Robert Fogg
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  • Szajewski, Richard Peter
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(54) Dye-forming photographic material and process comprising bleach accelerator releasing compound


(57) Bleach accelerator releasing organic compounds which have a releasable bleach accelerator moiety represented by the moiety:

wherein

TIME is a timing group;

n is 0 or 1;

R, is a linking group; and

R2 is a water solubilizing group,

are useful in dye-forming photographic elements and processes The bleach accelerator releasing compound enables improved images by means of release of the bleach accelerator moiety in the photographic element during processing.





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