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A photopolymerizable composition, element and method of photopolymerizing the composition or element are disclosed wherein the composition comprises an addition polymerizable compound containing ethylenic unsaturation and a co-initiator including a photopolymerization activator and a photosensitizer

A photopolymerizable composition, element and method of photopolymerizing the composition or element are disclosed wherein the composition comprises an addition polymerizable compound containing ethylenic unsaturation and a co-initiator including a photopolymerization activator and a photosensitizer. In one aspect of the invention, the photosensitizer is selected to be a coumarin having an absorption maximum between about 250 and about 550 nm, and a [Figure] substituent in the 3-position wherein R1 is alkyl or alkenyl having 1-12 carbon atoms, or a carbocyclic or heterocyclic group having 5-20 nuclear carbon and hetero atoms, the coumarin and the activator being present in an amount sufficient to provide, when the composition is coated, dried and exposed to a medium-pressure mercury light source, a speed which is at least about one-fifth that of the same composition coated, dried and exposed identically except with a co-initiator consisting of Michler\s ketone and benzophenone. In another aspect of the invention, the activator is selected to have the structure: [Figure] wherein: J is -O-, -S- or a carbon-to-carbon bond; J1, J2, and J3 are each independently hydrogen; alkyl, alkoxy, or alkylthio having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms; aryloxy having from 6 to 10 carbon atoms; halogen; or any two of J1, J2, and J3 taken together comprise the atoms necessary to complete a 5- or 6-membered fused heterocyclic or aromatic ring; and Z is the number of atoms necessary to complete a heterocyclic or aromatic ring of from 4 to 6 ring atoms.

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In a photopolymerizable composition comprising an addition-polymerizable compound containing ethylenic unsaturation, and a co-initiator composition comprising a carbonyl compound and a photopolymerization activator responsive in the presence of the photo-excited form of said carbonyl compound to for

In a photopolymerizable composition comprising an addition-polymerizable compound containing ethylenic unsaturation, and a co-initiator composition comprising a carbonyl compound and a photopolymerization activator responsive in the presence of the photo-excited form of said carbonyl compound to form a free radical, said activator being selected from the group consisting of an amine other than a 3-ketocoumarin, an acetic acid derivative, a phosphine, a phosphite, a bismuthine, an arsine, a stibine, a sulfinic acid, a sulfinic acid ester, a sulfone, a dicarbonyl, a ketone, a bi-imidazole, and a stannate; the improvement wherein said carbonyl compound is a coumarin having an absorption maximum between about 250 and about 550 nm and a [Figure] substituent in the 3-position, wherein R1 is alkyl or alkenyl having 1 to about 12 carbon atoms, or a carbo-cyclic or heterocyclic group having about 5 to about 20 nuclear carbon and hetero atoms, said coumarin and said activator being present in an amount sufficient to provide, when the composition is coated, dried and exposed to a medium-pressure mercury light source, a speed which is at least about one-fifth that of the same composition coated, dried and exposed identically except with a co-initiator consisting of Michler\s ketone and benzophenone.