Patent ID: 8431207

Claim:
An optical recording material, comprising: a cyanine compound represented by general formula (A), where Ra, Rb, Rc and Rd represent independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group that may have a substituent group, an aryl group that may have a substituent group or an aralkyl group that may have a substituent group, and a squarylium compound represented by general formula (I), where R 1 and R 2 may be the same to each other or different from each other and respectively represent an alkyl group that may have a substituent group, an aralkyl group that may have a substituent group, an aryl group that may have a substituent group or a heterocyclic group that may have a substituent group; “Q” represents a metal atom having a coordinating ability; “q” is an integer of 2 or 3; R 3 and R 4 may be the same to each other or different front each other, and respectively represent an alkyl group that may have a substituent group, an aralkyl group that may have a substituent group, or an aryl group that may have a substituent group, and R 3 and R 4 may be bound to each other to form an alicyclic hydrocarbon ring or a heterocyclic ring; R 5 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group that may have a substituent group, an aralkyl group that may have a substituent group or an aryl group that may have a substituent group; R 6 represents halogen atom, an alkyl group that may have a substituent group, an aralkyl group that may have a substituent group, an aryl group that may have a substituent group, a nitro group, a cyano group or an alkoxy group that may have a substituent group; “p” is an integer of 0 to 4; here, when “p” is an integer of 2 to 4, each R 6 may be the same to each other or different from each other, and further two adjacent R 6 s may be bound to two adjacent carbon atoms to form an aromatic ring that may have a substituent group.