An organic electroluminescent device, which has: 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 that has a structure represented by formula (2), as the compound itself or as its partial structure, in at least one layer of the at least one organic layer: ##STR00001## wherein, in formula (2), each of A.sup.1, A.sup.2, A.sup.3, A.sup.4, A.sup.5, A.sup.6, A.sup.7, A.sup.8, A.sup.9, A.sup.10, A.sup.11, A.sup.12, A.sup.13, A.sup.14, A.sup.15, and A.sup.16 represents a nitrogen atom or a carbon atom that may optionally have a substituent, and at least one of A.sup.1, A.sup.2, A.sup.3, A.sup.4, A.sup.5, A.sup.6, A.sup.7, A.sup.8, A.sup.9, A.sup.10, A.sup.11, A.sup.12, A.sup.13, A.sup.14, A.sup.15 and A.sup.16 is a nitrogen atom.