Patent ID: 7282276

Claim:
An organic electroluminescent device, which comprises: at least one organic layer between a pair of electrodes, with at least one layer of the at least one organic layer being a light-emitting layer, and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of (a) a compound having a structure represented by formula (2) and (b) a compound having, as its partial structure, a group corresponding to (a), in at least one layer of the at least one organic layer: wherein, in formula (2), each of A 1 , A 2 , A 3 , A 4 , A 5 , A 6 , A 7 , A 8 , A 9 , A 10 , A 11 , A 12 , A 13 , A 14 , A 15 , and A 16 represents a nitrogen atom or a carbon atom that may optionally have a substituent, and at least one of A 1 , A 2 , A 3 , A 4 , A 5 , A 6 , A 7 , A 8 , A 9 , A 10 , A 11 , A 12 , A 13 , A 14 , A 15 , and A 16 is a nitrogen atom.