Silver halides diffusion transfer process

A list of more common silver complexing agents includes thiosulfates, thiocyanates, sulfites, cyanides, ammonia and other amines, thiols, thiourea, thioacids, thioethers and alkali halides. Most are not practical as fixing agents because they fail to satisfy all the above criteria. Many find use as silver halide stabilizers (Section 59.2.1.8). These include thiocyanate, thiourea and other thioorganic compounds. These and other complexing agents such as cyclic imides, phosphines and arsines find use in silver halide diffusion transfer processes (Section 59.2.1.6). 

Hydroxyhydroquinone and pyrogallol can be used for lining reactors for vinyl chloride suspension polymerization to prevent formation of polymer deposits on the reactor walls (98). Hydroxyhydroquinone and certain of its derivatives are useful as auxiliary developers for silver halide emulsions in photographic material their action is based on the dye diffusion-transfer process. The transferred picture has good contrast and stain-free highlights (99). 5-Acylhydroxyhydroquinones are useful as stabilizer components for poly(alkylene oxide)s (100). 

In practical systems, no solvent is as universally effective as sodium thiosulfate, Na2S203. Itis inexpensive, stable and produces few undesirable side effects such as stains, odors or toxicity. It rapidly forms stable, soluble complex ions with silver halide (for example [Ag(S203)2]3 ), which are rapidly diffusible. Several other silver complexing agents are proposed as being useful in diffusion transfer processes, however, and some of these are used either singly or in combination with other, more common solvents. Some are used with certain developers. 

In the traditional silver halide dye-forming and dye-bleach processes, metal complex dyes are not normally used.62,63 However, metal complex azo dyes have been claimed15 for use in color diffusion transfer photography employing non-diffusible magenta dye-releasing dyes which, upon development of the silver halide layer, release a diffusible magenta dye (Scheme 7). 

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