Light-sensitive silver halide photographic material incorporating metal complex with high quenching constant and an oil soluble dye

Claim 1

A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material having a silver halide emulsion layer containing a coupler on a support, comprising at least one of the metal complexes having a quenching constant of singlet oxygen of 3×10 7 M -1 .sec -1 or higher and at least one of oil-soluble dyes; and wherein said metal complexes are at least one selected from the group consisting of the compounds represented by the formulae (II) to (V) shown below: ##STR243## wherein M represents a metal atom; X 1 and X 2 each represent an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or --NR 7 -- where R 7 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a hydroxyl group; X 3 represents a hydroxy group or a mercapto group; Y represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; R 3 , R 4 , R 5 and R 6 each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a cyano group; or an alkyl group, an aryl group, a cycloalkyl group or a heterocyclic group each of which is bonded directly or through a divalent linking group to the carbon atom, at least one of the combinations of R 3 and R 4 , and R 5 and R 6 may be linked together to form a 5- or 6-membered ring together with the carbon atom bonded thereto; Z 0 represents a compound coordinatable with M or a residue thereof, ##STR244## wherein R 21 , R 22 , R 23 and R 24 each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a hydroxy group, a cyano group; or an alkyl group, an aryl group, a cycloalkyl group or a heterocyclic group each of which is bonded directly or indirectly through a divalent linking group to the carbon atom on the benzene ring, and R 21 and R 22 , R 22 and R 23 or R 23 and R 24 may be bonded together to form a 6-membered ring; R 25 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group; A represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a hydroxy group; and M represents a nickel atom.