Yellow azopyrazoline dye releasing redox compounds for photographic color transfer

Claim 1

A yellow image dye-releasing compound having a formula as follows ##STR36## wherein CAR represents a ballasted o- or p-sulfonamidophenol or o- or p-sulfonamidonaphthol carrier moiety which, as a function of oxidation under alkaline conditons, releases a diffusible dye from said compound; X represents a bivalent linking group of the formula --R 1 --L n --R 1 p --where each R 1 can be the same or different and each represents alkylene having 1 to about 8 carbon atoms; phenylene; or phenylene substituted with carboxy, chloro, methyl or methoxy; L represents a bivalent radical selected from oxy, carbonyl, carboxamido, carbamoyl, sulfonamido, sulfamoyl, sulfinyl or sulfonyl; n is an integer having a value of 0 or 1; p is 1 when n equals 1 and p is 1 or 0 when n equals 0, provided that when p is 1 the carbon content of the sum of both R radicals does not exceed 14 carbon atoms; R represents hydrogen or alkyl having 1 to about 6 carbon atoms; J represents a bivalent radical selected from sulfonyl or carbonyl; m and q each represent an integer having a value of 0 or 1; E represents hydrogen, chloro, bromo, fluoro, alkyl having 1 to about 4 carbon atoms or alkoxy having 1 to about 4 carbon atoms; Z represents hydrogen or an electron withdrawing group selected from cyano, trifluoromethyl, alkylsulfonyl having 1 to about 8 carbon atoms, alkylsulfonyl having 1 to about 8 carbon atoms substituted with hydroxy, phenyl, cyano, sulfamoyl, carboxy, fluorosulfonyl or sulfo; phenylsulfonyl or phenylsulfonyl substituted with carboxy, hydroxy, sulfamoyl, fluorosulfonyl, carboxy or sulfo; a carboxylic acid ester having the formula --COOR 2 wherein R 2 is alkyl having 1 to about 18 carbon atoms, phenyl or phenyl substituted with chloro or nitro; sulfo, a sulfamoyl radical having the formula --SO 2 NR 3 R 4 wherein R 3 represents hydrogen or alkyl having 1 to about 6 carbon atoms and R 4 represents hydrogen, alkyl having 1 to about 6 carbon atoms, alkyl having 1 to about 6 carbon atoms substituted with hydroxy, cyano, fluorosulfonyl, carboxy or sulfo; benzyl, phenyl, phenyl substituted with hydroxy, sulfonyl, sulfamoyl, carboxy or sulfo; alkylcarbonyl having 1 to about 8 carbon atoms, or phenylcarbonyl having 6 to about 9 carbon atoms, with the proviso that the carbon content of the sum of R 3 and R 4 not exceed 14 carbon atoms; a carbamoyl radical having the formula --CON(R 3 ) 2 wherein each R 3 can be the same or different and is as described previously; and M represents hydrogen, a solubilizing group or precursor thereof selected from carboxy, sulfo, a sulfamoyl radical as described for Z or a carboxylic acid ester as described for Z.