Patent ID: 8257838

Claim:
An organic electroluminescent device, comprising a pair of electrodes, and at least one organic layer including a luminescent layer between the electrodes, wherein said organic layer comprises at least one compound represented by formula (11): wherein in formula (11), Z 101 , Z 102 and Z 103 each represent CR wherein R represents a substituent, CH or N; L 101 , L 102 , L 103 and L 104 each represent a single bond or a linking group; Q 101 and Q 103 each represent a group containing a carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen or sulfur atom as a coordinating atom to M 101 respectively; Q 102 represents a group containing a nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen or sulfur atom as a coordinating atom to M 101 ; and M 101 represents a metal ion that may further have at least one ligand.