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Image recording material containing salicylic acid developer and image recording process employing the same
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, (2008/06/13)
An image recording material comprises a support and an image recording layer provided thereon which contains a salicyclic acid derivative or its metal salt, which functions as a developer of a leuco dye to form a color image. A new salicylic acid developer is herein disclosed. The salicylic acid developer is a salicylic acid derivative having the formula (I) or its metal salt: STR1 in which each of R13 and R15 independently is hydrogen, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a tertiary aralkyl group; R16 is an alkyl group or an aryl group; and when R15 is hydrogen R13 is a tertiary aralkyl group. An image recording process employing the image recording material is also disclosed.