Light-sensitive material containing silver halide, reducing agent, polymerizable compound, and polar compound

Claim 1

A light-sensitive material comprising a support and a light-sensitive layer containing silver halide, a reducing agent, an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable compound and a base or base precursor, said silver halide, reducing agent and polymerizable compound being contained in microcapsules which are dispersed in the light-sensitive layer, and said base or base precursor being arranged outside of the microcapsules, wherein the light-sensitive layer contains a polar compound having a melting point in the range of 30° to 250° C., said polar compound being arranged inside and outside of the microcapsules, and said polar compound arranged outside of the microcapsules is present in an amount of from 3 to 30 weight percent and wherein the reducing agent, the polar compound contained in the microcapsules, the polar compound arranged outside of the microcapsules and the base or a base formed from the base precursor have pKa values satisfying the conditions of the formulas (V) and (VI): D≦E≦G (V) D≦F≦G (VI) in which D represents the pKa value of the reducing agent; E represents the pKa value of the polar compound contained in the microcapsules; F represents the pKa value of the polar compound arranged outside of the microcapsules; and G represents the pKa value of the base or a base formed from the base precursor and wherein said microcapsules contain said polar compound in an amount of from 0.1 to 1.0 mole based on one mole of the reducing agent.