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Photographic emulsion containing transition metal complexes

US5474888A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 31, 1994
Grant dateDec 12, 1995
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Expiry dateOct 31, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03C2001/0845
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The present invention provides a photographic emulsion silver halide grains having incorporated therein or thereon a dopant, a grain surface modifier, and a hexacoordination complex comprising iridium, wherein the grain surface modifier is a transition metal complex comprising a nitrosyl or thionitrosyl ligand with a transition metal selected from the Groups 5 to 10, inclusive, of the periodic table, and the dopant is a transition metal complex comprising a transition metal, other than iridium, which is selected from Groups 7 to 10 of the periodic table.

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