Abstract: A novel compound for an organic EL device is provided which has a structure represented by the general formula (1):

Abstract: There are provided a metal complex which is used as a novel compound for an organic EL device and an organic light-emitting device which uses the metal complex and has an optical output with high efficiency and high luminance. The novel metal complex has, in a partial structure thereof, a non-aromatic ring structure containing at least one olefin and an alkylene group containing at least one F atom, and an unsaturated heterocyclic ring structure containing at least one nitrogen atom. The organic light-emitting device includes a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode and at least one layer including an organic compound and interposed between the pair of electrodes, in which the layer including the organic compound contains a metal complex represented by the following structural formula.

Abstract: A main chain-type or side chain-type polymeric compound having a structure wherein at least one metal complex segment having a plurality of ligands is introduced into a main chain or a side chain is provided. In the case where the polymeric compound is the main chain-type polymeric compound, the metal complex segment has at least one ligand constituting a polymer main chain of the polymeric compound and having a carbon atom and oxygen atom bonded to a metal atom. On the other hand, in the case where the polymeric compound is the side chain-type polymeric compound, a polymer main chain thereof has a conjugated structure, preferably a conjugated double bond. A ligand for the polymeric compound includes a chain or cyclic ligand, of which a bidentate ligand having an organic cyclic structure is preferred, and the ligand has at least one carbon atom or oxygen atom and is bonded to a center metal atom, preferably iridium, via the carbon atom or oxygen atom.

Abstract: A high-performance organic light-emitting element and a novel organic compound realizing the above element are provided. A fluoranthene compound having a specific structure and an organic light-emitting element using the same are provided.

Abstract: There is provided a light-emitting material comprising a metal coordination compound having a partial structure represented by the following general formula (1). The light-emitting material has high luminous efficiency and high stability and can be produced at a low cost.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing an iridium complex with a high yield at a low temperature, and an organic electroluminescence device (organic EL device) having an light output high in efficiency and high luminance in a range from blue to red region. An iridium complex for the organic EL device is produced from an iridium complex having a 4-membered ring structure as an auxiliary ligand.

Abstract: A light-emitting device is provided which uses an organic compound to emit light with high luminance and extremely high efficiency. The organic compound is composed of a metal complex having monovalent bidentate ligands. The light-emitting device includes a pair of electrodes which are an anode and a cathode, and plural organic compound layers interposed between the electrodes, in which at least one layer of the organic compound layers contains a metal complex represented by the following structural formula. The light-emitting device is an organic electroluminescent device using the light-emitting device in which the layer including the organic compound is a light-emitting layer.

Abstract: A metal complex is provided which is used for an organic EL device and an organic light-emitting device which outputs light with high luminance and high efficiency. The metal complex has a structure in which a nitrogen atom in a 6- to 8-membered non-aromatic cyclic group is bonded to a metal atom. The organic light-emitting device includes a pair of electrodes which are an anode and a cathode, and an organic compound layer interposed between the electrodes. The organic compound layer contains the metal complex represented by the following structural formula.

Abstract: A fluorene derivative represented by the following structural formula. An organic electroluminescence device including a pair of electrodes, and at least one layer containing an organic compound interposed between the pair of the electrodes. The at least one layer containing the organic compound contains the fluorene derivative. The layer containing the fluorene derivative serves as a light-emitting layer.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device includes an anode, a cathode, a luminescent layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, and a hole-transporting layer disposed between the anode and the cathode. The luminescent layer includes a first sublayer made of a first metal complex and a second sublayer made of a second metal complex. The second sublayer is disposed further from the hole-transporting layer than the first sublayer.

Abstract: A full-color organic electroluminescent panel has red (R), green (G), and blue (B) color pixels that independently emit light. The organic electroluminescent panel includes a hole-injecting layer common to the red (R), green (G), and blue (B) color pixels and a plurality of hole-transporting layers. The hole-transporting layer in at least one of the red (R), green (G), or blue (B) color pixels differs from a corresponding hole-transporting layer in the remaining pixels.

Abstract: A metal coordination compound having a structure according to formula (1) or (3), wherein ligand L is a phenylisoquinoline ligand and ligand L2 is different from L: A luminescence device and a display apparatus using this metal coordination compound are provided.

Abstract: A metal coordination compound having the following structure: wherein M? is Ir or Rh, m? is 2, and are identical to each other and are represented by a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl isoquinoline ligand. A luminescence device and a display apparatus using this metal coordination is compound are provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic electroluminescent device using a novel light-emitting material. The organic electroluminescent device of the present invention is formed by using an organic compound having an emission wavelength in a single-body state shorter than that in a solution as a light-emitting material, doping the light-emitting material with a conductive material to form a light-emitting layer in such a manner that the content of the conductive material in the light-emitting layer is lower than that of the light-emitting material therein, and interposing the light-emitting layer between electrodes.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic EL device utilizing phosphorescence which can be driven at a low voltage, which realizes high luminance and high efficiency, and which has a long lifetime. The organic EL device of the present invention includes an organic light-emitting layer composed of at least a host material and a dopant, wherein the dopant is a phosphorescent compound containing a halogen atom, and the host material is a linear aromatic compound having no aromatic substituent at a side thereof.

Abstract: A main chain-type or side chain-type polymeric compound having a structure wherein at least one metal complex segment having a plurality ligands is introduced into a main chain or a side chain is provided. In the case where the polymeric compound is the main chain-type polymeric compound, the metal complex segment has at least one ligand constituting a polymer main chain of the polymeric compound and having a carbon atom and oxygen atom bonded to a metal atom. On the other hand, in the case where the polymeric compound is the side chain-type polymeric compound, a polymer main chain thereof has a conjugated structure, preferably a conjugated double bond. A ligand for the polymeric compound includes a chain or cyclic ligand, of which a bidentate ligand having an organic cyclic structure is preferred, and the ligand has at least one carbon atom or oxygen atom and is bonded to a center metal atom, preferably iridium, via the carbon atom or oxygen atom.

Abstract: Provided is a novel compound that can be suitably used as a compound for an organic EL device. The compound is represented by general formula (1): wherein x, y and z are an integer of 0 to 3 with x+z>1; R3, R15, R16, R17, and R18 are hydrogen or a linear or branched alkyl; R1, R2, R4, and R5 are hydrogen, a linear or branched alkyl, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl with at least one being a substituted or unsubstituted aryl; A is hydrogen, a linear or branched alkyl, or group B: (wherein R6, R7, R8, R9, and R10 are hydrogen, a linear or branched alkyl, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl); R11, R12, R13, and R14 are hydrogen, a linear or branched alkyl, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl; and each CH on the benzene ring may be replaced by nitrogen.

Abstract: A luminescence device that has an organic compound layer disposed between a pair of electrodes. This organic compound layer contains a metal coordination compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein M is Ir, Rh or Pd; n is 2 or 3; CyN is a substituted or unsubstituted cyclic group containing a nitrogen atom connected to M and capable of containing another nitrogen atom and/or a sulfur atom; and CyC is a substituted or unsubstituted cyclic group containing a carbon atom connected to M and capable of containing a nitrogen atom and/or a sulfur atom.

Abstract: There is provided an organic light-emitting element comprising at least one light-emitting layer between a pair of electrodes formed on a substrate and at least two or more light emission center materials included in the light-emitting layer, and that the at least one or more light emission center materials include a phosphorescent light-emitting material, and an excitation lifetime of the light emission center material that emits light having a shortest wavelength is shorter than an excitation lifetime of the other light emission center material, whereby a high-efficiency organic light-emitting element without decreasing a color purity of white light emission can be obtained.

Abstract: An organic EL device includes a luminescence layer containing a metal coordination compound represented by the following formula (1): LmML?n, wherein M denotes Ir, Pt, Rh or Pd; L denotes a bidentate ligand; L? denotes a bidentate ligand different from L; m is an integer of 1, 2 or 3; and n is an integer of 0, 1 or 2 with the proviso that the sum of m and n is 2 or 3. The partial structure MLm is represented by formula (2) or formula (3) shown below, and the partial structure ML?n is represented by formula (4) or formula (5) shown below: wherein CyN1, CyN2 and CyN3 independently denote a substituted or unsubstituted cyclic group containing a nitrogen atom connected to M; CyN4 denotes a cyclic group containing 8-quinoline or its derivative having a nitrogen atom connected to M.