IRIDIUM COMPOUND AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING IRIDIUM COMPLEX BY USING IRIDIUM COMPOUND

摘要

The present invention provides an iridium compound useful as a raw material compound for producing a cyclometalated iridium complex, the iridium compound being represented by the following Genera! Formula (1). The iridium compound of the present invention is particularly useful as a raw material for imidazole-based cyclometalated iridium complexes among cyclometalated iridium complexes. (In General Formula (1), Ir represents an iridium atom, O represents an oxygen atom, X represents a halogen atom, and Y represents a counter cation; and R 1 and R 2 each independently represent an alkyl group with a carbon number of 1 or more and 10 or less, with the proviso that only one of R 1 and R 2 is a branched alkyl group.)