Patent ID: 8586210

Claim:
A compound having a substituted anthracene ring structure and a pyridoindole ring structure, represented by the following general formula (1): wherein Ar 1 and Ar 2 may be the same or different from each other and each represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, R 1 to R 8 may be the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, a chlorine atom, a cyano group, a trifluoromethyl group, a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group, or a substituted or unsubstituted condensed polycyclic aromatic group, W, X, Y and Z each represents a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom, and A represents a single bond, a phenylene group, a biphenylene group, or a divalent group represented by the following general formula (A2), provided that only one of W, X, Y and Z is a nitrogen atom and the nitrogen atom does not have a substituent R 1 to R 4 : wherein R 13 to R 19 may be the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, a chlorine atom, a cyano group, a trifluoromethyl group, a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group.