Patent ID: 8847141

Claim:
A photoelectric conversion element having a photoelectric conversion film which is sandwiched between a transparent electrically conductive film and an electrically conductive film and comprises a photoelectric conversion layer and an electron blocking layer, wherein said electron blocking layer comprises a compound represented by the following formula (F-1): wherein each of R 11 to R 18 and R′ 11 to R′ 18 independently represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, a hydroxyl group, an amino group or a mercapto group, which may further have a substituent, any one of R 15 to R 18 is connected to any one of R′ 15 to R′ 18 through a single bond, each of A 11 and A 12 independently represents a substituent represented by the following formula (A-1) and substitutes as any one of R 11 to R 14 and R′ 11 to R′ 14 , and each Y independently represents a carbon atom, a nitrogen atom, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or a silicon atom, which may further have a substituent; wherein each of Ra 1 to Ra 8 independently represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, which may further have a substituent, * represents the bonding position, Xa represents a single bond, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, an alkylene group, a silylene group, an alkenylene group, a cycloalkylene group, a cycloalkenylene group, an arylene group, a divalent heterocyclic group or an imino group, which may further have a substituent, each S 11 independently represents the following substituent (S 11 ) and substitutes as any one of Ra 1 to Ra 8 , and each n independently represents an integer of 0 to 4; wherein each of R 1 to R 3 independently represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group.