Abstract: A heterocyclic compound wherein three five-membered rings are fused to one benzene ring and a saturated or unsaturated ring is fused to each five-membered ring. An organic electroluminescence device includes one or more organic thin film layers between an anode and a cathode. The one or more organic thin film layers include a light emitting layer. At least one layer of the one or more organic thin film layers includes the heterocyclic compound.

Abstract: An aromatic amine derivative is represented by a formula (1-1) below. In the formula (1-1), R2 to R5 and R7 to R10 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a substituent. In the formula (1-1), R1 and R6 are represented by a formula (2-1) below, and L1 to L3 are each independently a single bond, a divalent residue of an aryl group, and the like. In the formula (2-1); Ar1 is a monovalent substituent having a partial structure represented by a formula (3-1) below; X is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; and A and B represent a six-membered ring. In the formula (2-1), Ar2 is an aryl group or a heterocyclic group. The monovalent substituent having the partial structure represented by the formula (3-1) includes at least one of a fluorine atom and the like.

Abstract: An aromatic amine derivative is represented by the following formula (1). In the formula (1), R1 to R10 each independently represent a hydrogen atom and a substituent. In the formula (1); R1 is represented by the following formula (2); any one of R2 to R5 and R7 to R10 is represented by the following formula (2); and L1 to L3 each independently represent a single bond, a divalent residue of an aryl group, or the like. In the formula (2); Ar1 is a monovalent substituent having a partial structure represented by the following formula (3); X represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; and A and B represent a six-membered ring. In the formula (2), Ar2 is an aryl group, a monovalent substituent having a partial structure represented by the formula (3), and the like.

Abstract: An aromatic amine derivative with a specific structure having a carbazole skeleton to which a diarylamino group bonds via a bonding group. An organic electroluminescence device which is composed of one or more organic thin film layers including at least one light emitting layer sandwiched between a cathode and an anode, wherein at least one of the organic thin film layers contains the aromatic amine derivative singly or as its mixture component. Organic electroluminescence devices with enhanced efficiency of light emission and a compound realizing the devices are provided.

Abstract: An aromatic amine derivative is represented by a formula (1) below. In the formula (1), R2 to R5, R7 to R9 and R10 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a substituent. In the formula (1), R1 and R6 are represented by a formula (2) below, and L1 to L3 are each independently a single bond and the like. In the formula (2), Ar1 is a monovalent residue derived from the ring structure represented by a formula (4) below, X is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, and at least one of R11 to R18 is an alkyl group. In the formula (1), Ar2 is an aryl group or a monovalent residue derived from the ring structure represented by the formula (4).

Abstract: An aromatic amine derivative is represented by the following formula (1). In the formula (1), R2 to R5, R7 to R9 and R10 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a substituent. R1 and R6 in the formula (1) are each represented by the following formula (2), in which L1 to L3 are each independently, for instance, a single bond. Ar1 in the formula (2) is a monovalent residue derived from a ring structure of the following formula (4), in which X is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom and at least one of R11 to R18 is a substituted aryl group. Ar1 in the formula (1) is, for instance, an aryl group or a monovalent residue derived from the ring structure of the formula (4).

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device employing a specific biscarbazole derivative having a cyano group as a first host and a compound having both a carbazole structure and a nitrogen-containing aromatic heteroring as a second host. The organic electroluminescence device has a prolonged lifetime.

Abstract: Disclosed is an aromatic diamine derivative represented by the following general formula (I), which has a chrysene structure in which a phenyl group having a substituted or unsubstituted silyl group is a substituent for an amino group. Also disclosed is an organic electroluminescence device including an organic thin film layer formed of one or more layers including at least a light emitting layer and interposed between a cathode and an anode, in which at least one layer of the organic thin film layer contains the aromatic diamine derivative by itself or as a component of a mixture, the device having a long lifetime and high luminous efficiency.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting medium including a pyrene derivative represented by the following formula (1) and a phenyl-substituted anthracene derivative represented by the following formula (2): wherein Ar1 to Ar4 are independently a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group having 5 to 20 ring atoms.

Abstract: A benzofluoranthene derivative represented by the following formula (1): wherein at least one pair of “R1 and R2” and “R3 and R4” is bonded together to form a ring represented by the following formula (2):

Abstract: A material for organic electroluminescence device having a specific central skeleton to which a cyano-substituted aromatic hydrocarbon group or a cyano-substituted heterocyclic group is bonded at its specific position is described. Further described is an organic electroluminescence device including an organic thin film layer between an anode and a cathode. The organic thin film layer include an light emitting layer and at least one layer of the organic thin film layer contains the material for organic electroluminescence device. The material for organic electroluminescence device realizes an organic electroluminescence device with good emission efficiency.

Abstract: A material for an organic electroluminescence device represented by the following formula (I): wherein X1 to X8 are a nitrogen atom, CH, CHal or CRa; Az is a nitrogen-containing six-membered ring or a fused polycyclic group including a nitrogen-containing six-membered ring; W is an aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms which is substituted by at least one cyano group or a heterocyclic group having 5 to 30 ring atoms which is substituted by at least one cyano group.

Abstract: An aromatic amine derivative represented by the following formula (1); wherein Ar1 to Ar4 are independently a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 20 ring carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group having 5 to 20 ring carbon atoms and at least one of Ar1 to Ar4 has a substituted or unsubstituted silyl group; Ar5 is a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group having 6 to 20 ring carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted heteroarylene group having 5 to 20 ring carbon atoms; and L is a group represented by the following formula (A) or (B);

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device 1 includes: an anode 3, a cathode 4 opposed to the anode 3 and an emitting layer 5 provided between the anode 3 and the cathode 4. The emitting layer 5 contains first and second host materials and a luminescent material. The first host material has a partial structure represented by at least one of the following formulae (1) and (2) while the second host material has a partial structure represented by the following formula (3). Az represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group containing a nitrogen-containing six-membered ring. WCN is an aromatic hydrocarbon group substituted by at least one cyano group (CN) or an aromatic heterocyclic group substituted by at least one cyano group (CN). Ar1 is a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group or a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group, but is not an aromatic heterocyclic group containing a nitrogen-containing six-membered ring.

Abstract: An oxygen-containing fused ring derivative represented by the following formula (1) wherein Ar1 is an m-valent fused ring group in which four or more rings including one or more rings selected from a furan ring and a pyran ring are fused and HAr is any of the nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group represented by the following formulas (2) to (5):

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device including an anode, an emitting layer, a blocking layer, an electron-injecting layer and a cathode in this sequence, the emitting layer including a host and a styrylamine derivative having a specific structure; and the triplet energy ETb of the blocking layer being larger than the triplet energy ETh of the host.

Abstract: A polymer compound including a repeating unit shown by the following formula (1) wherein at least one of Ar1, Ar2 and Ar3 in the formula (1) is a group shown by the formula (2) and the two bonds shown in the formula (1) are present on any one or any two of Ar1, Ar2, Ar3 and L1.

Abstract: A polymer comprising the repeating units derived from an aromatic compound having a specific structure and a repeating unit derived from the compound represented by formula (1): wherein Ar1 to Ar4 are each independently a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 40 ring-forming carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group having 3 to 40 ring-forming atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 50 carbon atoms; X is a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 40 ring-forming carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group having 3 to 40 ring-forming atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted di- to tetravalent styrene-derived group; and s is an integer of 0 to 3. The polymer is useful as a light emission material and realizes a polymer electroluminescence device excellent in device characteristics such as lifetime and emission efficiency.

Abstract: A material for organic EL device which includes a compound having a specific structure: an azine ring having a cyano-substituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, an azine ring having a cyano-substituted heterocyclic group, or an azine ring having a cyano group directly bonded to the azine ring. An organic electroluminescence device including an organic thin film layer between a cathode and an anode, wherein the organic thin film layer includes a light emitting layer and at least one layer containing the material for organic electroluminescence device, has a long lifetime.

Abstract: Provided are: an aromatic amine derivative in which a terminal substituent such as a dibenzofuran ring or a dibenzothiophene ring is bonded to a nitrogen atom directly or through an arylene group or the like; an organic electroluminescence device including an organic thin film layer formed of one or more layers including a light emitting layer and interposed between a cathode and an anode in which a layer of the organic thin film layer contains the aromatic amine derivative by itself or as a component of a mixture, and the device has a long lifetime and high luminous efficiency; and an aromatic amine derivative for realizing the device.