| abstract |
A photographic element comprises a support bearing at least onensilver halide emulsion and at least one acylacetanilide yellow dye-formingnDIRncoupler of structure I, belown nwherein:n the R 1 is a tertiary alkyl group or a phenyl group; X is a halogen atom, an alkoxy group or an alkyl group; R 2 is one or more substituent in the para position or either meta positionnrelative to the anilino nitrogen and individually selected from the group consistingnof halogen atoms, and alkyl, phenyl, alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, sulfonamido,nsulfamoyl, sulfonate, alkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl, sulfoxyl, acyloxy, carbamoyl, acyl,ncarbonamido and cyano groups; n is 1, 2 or 3; R 3 is an alkyl group having at least 6 carbon atoms or a phenyl group. |