An organic light-emitting device (100) comprising an anode (103); a cathode (109); a first light-emitting layer (107) comprising a first light-emitting material between the anode and the cathode; and a hole-transporting layer (105) comprising a hole-transporting polymer between the anode and the first light-emitting layer and adjacent to the first light-emitting layer, wherein a HOMO level of the first light-emitting material is closer to vacuum than a HOMO level of the hole-transporting polymer and wherein more than 50 mol % of the repeat units of the hole-transporting polymer are hole-transporting repeat units.

A polymer compound is provided having a constitutional unit represented by the following formula (1): ##STR00001##
wherein: R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, a mono-valent aromatic heterocyclic group, an alkoxy group or an aryloxy group, and Ar.sup.1 represents an arylene group or a di-valent condensed polycyclic aromatic heterocyclic group.

The present invention relates to hyperbranched polymers, to a process for the preparation thereof, and to the starting compounds necessary for the preparation. The present invention furthermore relates to the use of the hyperbranched polymers according to the invention in electronic devices and to the electronic devices themselves.

The invention relates to new conjugated semiconducting polymers containing thermally cleavable side groups. The thermally cleavable side groups are selected from among carbonate groups and carbamate groups, By thermally cleaving side groups, the solubility or the polymers can he reduced in a targeted manner. The polymers are used as semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, organic photodetectors (OPDs), organic light emitling diodes (OLEDs), and organic field effect transistors (OFETs).

A composition suitable for use in an organic light-emitting layer (103) of an organic light-emitting device having an anode (101) and a cathode (105), the composition comprising a fluorescent light-emitting material, a first triplet-accepting material and a second triplet-accepting material that is different from the first triplet-accepting material. The fluorescent light-emitting material may be a repeat unit of a light-emitting polymer, and the first and second triplet-accepting materials may independently be repeat units of the light-emitting polymer or may be mixed with the fluorescent light-emitting material.

A polymer compound having an excellent crosslinking ability is provided. The polymer compound has at least one terminal constitutional unit represented by the formula (1) and a constitutional unit represented by the formula (2):

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In the constitutional unit represented by formula (1), mT represents an integer of 0 to 5, nT represents an integer of 1 to 4, cT represents an integer of 0 to 1, Q.sup.T represents a crosslinkable group, K.sup.T represents an alkylene group or the like and Ar.sup.T represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group or the like. In the constitutional unit represented by formula (2), mA represents an integer of 0 to 5, n represents an integer of 1 to 4, Ar.sup.1 represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group or the like, K.sup.A represents an alkylene group or the like and Q.sup.1 represents a crosslinkable group.

A composition comprising (1) a first crosslinkable polymer compound having an aromatic conjugated repeating unit and a crosslinkable group and having at least one of a light emitting property and charge transportability, and (2) a second crosslinkable polymer compound having an aromatic conjugated repeating unit and a crosslinkable group at least one of which is different from the aromatic conjugated repeating unit in the first crosslinkable polymer compound and the crosslinkable group in the first crosslinkable polymer compound, and having at least one of a light emitting property and charge transportability, wherein at least one of the first crosslinkable polymer compound and the second crosslinkable polymer compound has a crosslinkable group represented by the following formula (Z-3) or (Z-4): ##STR00001##
in the formulae, R.sup.c represents a hydrogen atom, or a substituent such as an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group or the like, the plurality of R.sup.c moieties may be the same or different.

The present invention relates to copolymers containing indenocarbazole derivatives having electron- and hole-transporting properties, in particular for use in the interlayer, emission layer and/or charge-transport layer of electroluminescent devices. The invention furthermore relates to a process for the preparation of the compounds according to the invention and to electronic devices comprising these compounds.

A problem to be solved of the invention is to provide a package of a liquid composition for an organic electroluminescent device including a phosphorescent material and a solvent with extended storage lifetime, which may be produced with high working efficiency. A solving means of the problem is a package of a liquid composition for an organic electroluminescent device having a liquid composition for an organic electroluminescent device including a phosphorescent material and a solvent, and a container that contains the liquid composition for an organic electroluminescent device, wherein the package of a liquid composition for an organic electroluminescent device has a transmittance of light, that is a wavelength component of from 500 nm to 780 nm, from outside of the package to inside of the container of 15% or less.

A polycyclic aromatic compound represented by Formula (1) is provided by the invention:

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wherein A.sup.11 ring, A.sup.21 ring, A.sup.31 ring, B.sup.11 ring, B.sup.21 ring, C.sup.11 ring, and C.sup.31 ring are an aryl or heteroaryl ring which may be substituted, Y.sup.11, Y.sup.21, Y.sup.31 are B or the like, X.sup.11, X.sup.12, X.sup.21, X.sup.22, X.sup.31, X.sup.32 are >O or >N—R, R in the above >N—R is an and which may be substituted or the like, R in the above >N—R or the like may be bonded to A.sup.11 ring, A.sup.21 ring, A.sup.31 ring, B.sup.11 ring, B.sup.21 ring, C.sup.11 ring, and/or C.sup.31 ring by a linking group or a single bond; and at least one hydrogen in the compound represented by Formula (1) may be replaced with deuterium, cyano, or a halogen.