Patent ID: 7255982

Claim:
A black-and-white, organic solvent based photothermographic material comprising a support and having on at least one side thereof a photothermographic layer and comprising, in reactive association: a. a photosensitive silver halide b. a non-photosensitive source of reducible silver ions, c. a reducing agent for said reducible silver ions, d. a hydrophobic polymeric binder, and e. one or more arylboronic acid compounds represented by Structure (I) wherein Ar represents an aromatic carbocyclic or heterocyclic group, and wherein any non-hydrogen substituent that is attached to a ring atom of Ar that is adjacent to the Ar ring atom attached to the boron atom is a bond to a fused aromatic or non-aromatic carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring, and wherein said arylboronic acid compound is present in an amount of at least 0.5 g/m 2 .